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Handel: Who Knew What He Liked.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
Handel: Who Knew What He Liked by M. C. Anderson; illus. Kevin Hawkes Candlewick Press, 48 pp. $16.99
M. C. Anderson's text-heavy picture book, Handel: Who Knew What He Liked is cast in the mold of children's-book author Diane Stanley's award-winning biographies (e.g., da Vinci, Peter the Great, Elizabeth I). The idea of this unusual format is to enhance a substantial informational text with spectacular art that helps bring a historical period to life. In this case, the illustrations are up to the task. The text is less successful. Anderson adopts an irreverent, almost cutesy tone that seems to condescend to both reader and subject. The anecdotal narrative is choppy and stylistically inconsistent, with the exposition interrupted by caption-like asides. ("Here we see Handel lost in despair.") While several of the anecdotes are well chosen to appeal to a youthful audience (a duel with a fellow composer, onstage squabbles between divas, explosions and brawls at the premiere of the Music for the Royal ...
- Handel, Who Knew What He Liked.
- Magazine article from: The Horn Book Magazine Wadham, Tim January 1, 2003 700+ words
Handel, Who Knew What He Liked by M. T. Anderson, illustrated by Kevin Hawkes, published by Candlewick Press Just as Handel was a composer who knew what he liked, M. T. Anderson is an author who knows what kids...
- Handel, Who Knew What He Liked. (Nonfiction).(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: The Horn Book Magazine Burns, Mary M. November 1, 2001 700+ words
* M. T. Anderson Handel, Who Knew What He Liked; illus. by Kevin Hawkes...sly commentary on the size of the wig Handel wore as an adult, the text strikes...admiration and information. As it describes Handel's determination to become a musician...
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- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Robert C. Marsh February 19, 1989 700+ words
...with a performance of Handel's "Israel in Egypt...with the conviction that Handel - and the other Baroque masters - really knew how they wanted their...to terms with the real Handel is that every time we...sounds, the instruments he knew, the typical ensemble...
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...Justin Davidson Apr. 9--Handel's operas are beginning to...London runs in the early 1700s, Handel's 40-odd stage works waited...the one whose name we already knew, Giulio Cesare, aka Julius...brought forth a new generation of Handel singers, who make staging the...
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...ll find the entrance to the Handel House Museum, a lovingly restored...of the rocker's life, the Handel House Museum is hosting the...with friends or alone. Hendrix knew he was practicing and composing...rooms near where George Frideric Handel had sat 250 years earlier composing...
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- Magazine article from: Spectator Holloway, Robin February 28, 2009 700+ words
...the fate of English music--Handel through near 50 years' residence...the rest of the century, as Handel's had the previous. They...19th century of Elgar ('I knew we had it at last!' exclaimed...music of our missing centuries. Handel (naturalised in 1727), after...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Butters, Patrick March 20, 1997 700+ words
...to benefit Dublin charities. Handel's friend Charles Jennens assembled...excels every other subject.") Handel finished the "Messiah" on...adopted England as his home, knew it had to be played for his...year.) The Irish applause for Handel's "Messiah" was volcanic...
- Handel got it right.(Features)(Homefront)(Neighbor To Neighbor)
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor December 22, 1999 700+ words
...college, and after. But Handel tripped me up this year, turning...himself." It's odd that Handel's oratorio received a thumbs...bad notices. But the public knew a good thing when it heard it...energized by the complete ideal Handel achieved. For unto us a child...
