Reference, Special Needs

Soundtrack from Paradise Road movie using the music written down by the WWII POW women interned in Sumatra.

Packs a wealth of material into little space and does it in an attractive, colorful, useful format. 

My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

by Helen Colijn.  Music overcame despair for the women imprisoned on Japanese-held Sumatra for over 3 years in WWII.

Awakening Your Child's Mind, Health, and Creativity with Music by Don Campbell. 

A fast-paced revel of insights and oddities by Stuart Issacoff.

Written with wit by a former NY Times music critic, with the useful addition of  a Naxos website of 500 listening examples.

My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Barber's Music History as it Ought to be Taught, Musician's Dictionary, and Messiah Handel--for laughing out loud!

More Music History as it Ought to be Taught by David Barber.

Set includes: MUSIC: The Definitive Visual History from the Smithsonian and ART That Changed the World

This award winning film,based on the novel Una Vida by Nicolas Bazan, is lyrically interwoven with the music of New Orleans.

A Symphony of the Human Spirit.  Award-winning documentary of a Paraguayan village built on a landfill, and the man who built instruments from the garbage and began The Recycled Orchestra.

The American Boy choir made a trip to Terezin Concentration Camp to learn about a work they perform using texts from the children in the camp. 20 years later they return and are reunited with the survivors they met earlier.

 A homeless musician adopts a flock of wild parrots in the hills of San Francisco. This true story about love, nature, and nurture will touch your heart, and surprise you at the end.

When renowned dancer Pierre Dulaine (Antonio Banderas) takes a teaching job in a NYC public school, he is ridiculed by the street-wise students. He begins to meld their hip-hop moves with his ballroom style and, over time, becomes their mentor.