Tchaikovsky discovers America
Subtitle: [a tale of courage and adventure]
By: [writer: Douglas Cowling]
Contributors: Fox, Colin; Budd, Barbara; Boyes, Derek; Landry, Ray; Crawley, Amos; Campbell, Kelly; Babiak, Walter; Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893; Studio Arts Orchestra
Series: Classical kids; Classical kids
Publisher: Classical Kids; Distributed by Atlantic Recording Corp.
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Pickering, Ont; New York
Language: eng
Format: [sound recording] :
Subjects: Drama; Music appreciation; Courage; Juvenile sound recordings; Juvenile drama
Description: Classical kids series features stories for children with musical excerpts and movements written by the highlighted composer. Travel back in time to 1891, when composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky travelled to New York for the grand opening of Carnegie Hall. This title tells a story of all aboard for fun as a young family join the composer on a musical journey filled with excerpts both of Tchaikovsky's music and also well-known American music such as ragtime, spirituals, and popular folk classics. The family learn much about Tchaikovsky -- his life in Russia, his love of music and his fears of conducting. In the end, both the composer and the family discover something about courage -- and about themselves.
Notes: Lyrics for children's choir selections in container insert.

Teachers' notes are available.

Series originator and producer, Susan Hammond.

Actors: Colin Fox, Barbara Budd, Derek Boyes, Ray Landry, Amos Crawley, Kelly Campbell ; Studio Arts Orchestra ; conductor, Walter Babiak ; with various vocal acc.

Music digitally recorded and mixed at Manta Eastern Sound, Toronto.

Compact disc.
Table of contents: title: Piano concerto #1. Mvt. 1 ; Swan Lake. Danse napolitaine; title: Nutcracker. Trépac; title: Swing low, sweet chariot  ; Turkey in the straw ; Waltzes (Serenade and Swan Lake); title: Nutcracker. Tea, coffee, chocolate; title: Swan Lake. Danse des cygnes. Allegro; title: 1812 overture. Excerpts; title: Sleeping beauty. Silver ; Ragtime; title: Swan Lake. Act II. Overture; title: Eugene Onegin. Girls' chorus; title: Nutcracker. Act II. Coda ; Ragtime; title: Marche Slav; title: Sleeping beauty. Violente; title: Nutcracker. Sugar-plum fairy; title: Sleeping beauty. Le sommeil, panorama; title: Long, long ago ; Eugene Onegin. Girls' chorus ; Swan Lake. Waltz, op. 20; title: Amazing grace ; Serenade for strings. Mvt. 1 ; Finale ; 1812 overture. Finale.