Apple for the Teacher: Thirty Songs for Singing While You Work.Apple for the Teacher: Thirty Songs for Singing While You Work, collected and introduced by Jane Yolen, music arranged by Adam Stemple Adam Stemple, author, professional musician, and card player, is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is the son of writer Jane Yolen and her late husband David Stemple. He has been a member of the rock-and-reel band Cats Laughing , art edited by Eileen Michaelis Smiles. Harry Abrams Publishing Co. (115 W. 18th St., New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY 10011), 2005. 117 pages. $24.95. This unique book combines work songs, American folk art folk art, the art works of a culturally homogeneous people produced by artists without formal training. The forms of such works are generally developed into a tradition that is either cut off from or tenuously connected to the contemporary cultural mainstream. and concise social commentary about various occupations, from the teamsters Teamsters large, powerful union of U. S. truckers. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 2703] See : Labor and tarriers of an earlier era to modern-day astronauts and programmers. Jane Yolen is an acclaimed writer of children's books, and in Apple for the Teacher, she, along with Adam Stemple and Eileen Michaelis Smiles, has produced compelling portraits of Americans at work. For example, the familiar song "Erie Canal Erie Canal, artificial waterway, c.360 mi (580 km) long; connecting New York City with the Great Lakes via the Hudson River. Locks were built to overcome the 571-ft (174-m) difference between the level of the river and that of Lake Erie. " gets a fresh arrangement, an accompanying 1832 watercolor, Lockport on the Erie Canal, and a narrative about the "bargees," or boat drivers who sang this song. A picture of a Pennsylvania Dutch table rug and a reflection on the tasks of restaurant wait staffs, enhance a newly composed song about waiters and waitresses. Especially useful for schoolteachers seeking to approach career studies through art and music, this book would also be an excellent way for families to add a musical dimension to nightly story times. In piano studios, I see the book mainly being used as an intriguing sight-reading resource. The pictures spark interest and the musical arrangements, while generally at an intermediate level, offer a departure from five-finger patterns. I also see it as a resource for vocal teachers wanting to encourage vivid story telling. Some of the lyrics are ironic: for example, in the title song, "Apple for the Teacher": "In the good old days when teachers got praised, For ev'ry kid who learned, Then teachers got paid and they stayed and stayed, And they earned as much as a plumber earned." Reviewed by Martha Smith, NCTM NCTM National Council of Teachers of Mathematics NCTM Nationally Certified Teacher of Music NCTM North Carolina Transportation Museum NCTM National Capital Trolley Museum NCTM Nationally Certified in Therapeutic Massage , Arlington, Virginia. |
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