Rosemary Hallum - Around the World in Dance - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

A wide variety of international dances selected for their unique national color in movement and music. All dances are practical for use in school and recreation. Recorded in appropriate national styles, each song uses authentic instruments of the various countries.

Contemporary composer David Loeb continues his series of albums for Centaur Records. Guitarist Paul Smith had previously played some of Loeb's works, and he suggested an album of compositions which comprise narrative or pictorial points of departure rather than abstract theoretical pieces. David Loeb took up the challenge, and this intriguing album is the result. Composer David Loeb was born in 1939 to a family which took music and the arts very seriously. He studied first with Peter Pindar Stearns at the Mannes College of Music, and then received his master's degree from Yale. His catalog of compositions is quite remarkably extensive and diverse. In addition to the typical assortment of works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, and voice, he has also composed extensively for Asian instruments and for early music instruments. Sometimes, he even brings the two worlds together and scores for combinations like four shakuhachi and four viols.

Used creatively, rhythm sticks, whether rolled up newspapers, Pla-Tubes, Lummi Sticks, or Rhythm Sticks, can widen your perceptual motor program. This recording and manual gives music, directions, and new ideas for using rhythm sticks. Activities include gross and fine movements, body image, following directions, and coordination skills.