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61 Original Tunes by L.E. McCullough in Irish Traditional Style. Book and Double-CD featuring 95 minutes of Dr. McC at his sizzling best with Nancy Conescu on guitar and T.H. Gillespie on keyboard! From Ossian Publications. (Order by Phone: 603-783-4383) |
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Learn
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60-minute video from Homespun Tapes. This complete guide to learning traditional Irish music on the tinwhistle will satisfy beginners picking up the tinwhistle for the first time -- and advanced players wanting to study in detail the intricate embellishment and expressive variation techniques of a Tinwhistle Virtuoso. Plus Homespun also publishes L.E.'s 121 Favorite Irish Session Tunes -- 4 one-hour CDs of solo whistle backed by keyboardist T.H. Gillespie and guitarist Nancy Conescu and accompanying tunebook with melodies and chords for 121 tunes every Irish musician needs to know. (Order by Phone: 800-338-2737) |
72-tune Book and 1-hour Compact Disc from Music Sales. THE undisputed introduction to tinwhistle, Irish-style. Since 1977, The Complete Irish Tinwhistle Tutor has taught the joys of tinwhistling to more than 500,000 people worldwide. (Order by Phone: 800-431-7187)
L.E. McCullough
also performs on the smash-hit PBS soundtracks of Ken
Burns' Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
(RCA), The West (Sony Classical) and The
Lovers' Waltz (Angel/EMI), the outstanding CD-music
romance novella by Jay
Ungar & Molly Mason. He also performs on the current
Ken Burns film Not
for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and
Susan B. Anthony... an original composition by L.E.
McCullough, "Raging River of Right" appears on the
soundtrack CD (Warner Bros./PBS) now in stores.
Two new books of original children's plays, Plays from Fairy Tales and Plays from Mythology, published by Smith & Kraus, Inc., have caused a flurry of excitement among educators seeking innovative and socially relevant arts curriculum material - as well as parents eager for educational yet entertaining playtime activity for their youngsters.
The 24 one-act plays from playwright/folklorist L.E. McCullough offer student and community theatre groups a fresh, entertaining way to celebrate one of the most happy occurrences of childhood the world over - the telling and hearing of myths and fairy tales.
Plays
from Fairy Tales (ISBN 1-57525-109-4, paper, $14.95)
re-creates the enchantment of the children's story hour, with
12 humorous and adventurous dramatizations of 18 classic fairy
tales from around the world: Senegal, Germany, Finland, Java,
Spain, Slovakia, Hawaii, Russia, Japan, Norway, England, Wales,
Papua, Native North America, Congo, Italy, Greece and Ireland.
Plays from Fairy Tales brings timeless legends of epic
fantasy to the home and classroom stage!
Plays
from Mythology (ISBN 1-57525-110-8,
paper, $14.95) features 12 original plays based on classic world
myths including "Dreamtime Down Under", "Fionn
in Search of His Youth", "The Flight of Icarus",
"Freya's Golden Necklace" , "Gilgamesh and the
Rose of Immortality", "King Midas and the Golden Touch",
"The Monkey King", "How Quetzalcoatl Found the
Sun", "The Throne of Osiris", "Tshai the
Brickmaker", "When a River Cries: The Myth of Oba and
Oshun" and "Why Bears No Longer Talk".
Each play in the series has an introduction with information about its source culture, story genre and historical context, as well as helpful notes for staging, costuming and music. "For the playmaker, fairy tales and mythology offer a limitless fund of terrific stories and epic characters that reveal human nature at its core," says Dr. McCullough, Administrative Director of the Humanities Theatre Group at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis. "Plays from Fairy Tales and Plays from Mythology are a great way for children to explore ancient history and see the world through the eyes of our ancestors."
Perfect for bringing timeless legends of epic fantasy to the home and classroom stage, the Plays from Fairy Tales and Plays from Mythology books are examples of the growing trend in American elementary education to use drama as a curriculum-enhancing tool for a wide range of subjects including history, mathematics, geography and language arts.
And for adults, these plays offer a chance to recapture the joy and excitement we all felt the first time we heard the thrilling words "Once Upon a Time. . .". Who says you can't be a kid again? Just step aboard this magic carpet and follow the big blue genie. . . mind that dragon lurking round the corner!
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