Tchaikovsky Discovers America

by Esther Kalman

Hardcover, 1995

Status

Available

Call number

HF1891

Publication

Orchard Books (1995), 1 pages

Description

Eleven-year-old Jenny, whose family came from Russia to America to start a new life, meets the famous Russian composer on his 1891 trip to the New World and writes about it in her diary.

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LibraryThing member MarthaL
Named Eugenia, after Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin, the eleven year old narator who has recently had a birthday narates as if writing in a journal her families involvement with Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky. Her father is a wealthy man who owns the railroad. He and his family like the composer have
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come from Russia. There the family lived in a 40 room mansion but only on the first floor for the roof had fallen in. Although the story is fictitious it is based on true espisodes in Tchaikovsky's life. He did travel to America and go by train to various cities by train. He did keep a journal.
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Original language

English

Original publication date

1994

Physical description

1 p.; 8.5 inches

ISBN

0531068943 / 9780531068946

Barcode

5941

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