The Colburn School in Los Angeles, California, is one of the world's premier music schools. It has four divisions. The Colburn Conservatory of Music offers a bachelor's degree in music performance and a four-year performance diploma. It also offers two graduate-level programs, a master's degree in music performance and an artist diploma for students seeking to broaden their repertory. There is also a less-structured professional studies certificate for those initiating their career. The Colburn Community School of Performing Arts serves students of all ages with classes in music, dance, drama, and early childhood arts education. The Music Academy is dedicated to nurturing and training gifted and talented young musicians under the age of eighteen. The Trudl Zipper Dance Institute supports all dance programs at the Colburn School, including those in the Community School and in the Dance Academy, a pre-professional program for youth desiring a career in dance. Throughout the Colburn School, the emphasis is on performance. The Colburn School bears the name of its benefactor, Richard D. Colburn. This memoir recounts his deep engagement with music, beginning on his seventh birthday, when his mother gave him a violin with a bow and a case, purchased for ten dollars. Colburn played the violin-and the viola-until the age of eighty-nine, but by his teenage years he focused on business, in which he proved to be remarkably talented. Colburn narrates his life with plain-spoken wit and grace. Music was his sustaining passion, and the Colburn School, which was his vision and which he generously endowed, is his gift of gratitude.

Time-tested activities to teach the key ideas of science—and turn students into scientists! This witty book adapts classic investigations to help students in grades 3 through 8 truly think and act like scientists. Chapter by chapter, this accessible primer illustrates a “big idea” about the nature of science and offers clear links to the Next Generation Science Standards and its Science and Engineering Practices. You’ll also find: A reader-friendly overview of the NGSS Guidance on adapting the activities to your grade level, including communicating instructions, facilitating discussions, and managing safety concerns Case studies of working scientists to highlight specifics about the science and engineering practices

College Prep for Musicians: A Comprehensive Guide for Students, Parents, Teachers, and Counselors is a one-of-a-kind book that forms a complete picture of the process of applying to music schools. No matter what degree within music in which you are interested, College Prep for Musicians is the book to help young musicians follow their dreams.

“A glimpse into the fragile psyche of a dancer.” —The Washington Post Jenifer Ringer, a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, was thrust into the headlines after her weight was commented on by a New York Times critic, and her response ignited a public dialogue about dance and weight. Ballet aficionados and aspiring performers of all ages will want to join Ringer behind the scenes as she shares her journey from student to star and candidly discusses both her struggle with an eating disorder and the media storm that erupted after the Times review. An unusually upbeat account of life on the stage, Dancing Through It is also a coming-of-age story and an inspiring memoir of faith and of triumph over the body issues that torment all too many women and men.

I. W. Colburn: Emotion in Modern Architecture chronicles the career of one of Chicago's most influential mid-century modernists. Colburn's houses, institutional buildings, and religious structures feature a highly refined blend of structural expression and deeply embedded elements of traditional architecture. Colburn was an independent architect whose sculptural buildings were controversial in his time, but whose mastery of proportion, materials, and space have gained wide recognition 50 years later. Colburn's architecture was extremely influential to architects in the mid-twentieth century who were also struggling with modernism's relationship to the architecture of the past--to the "golden mean" and other classical principles of balance and repose. Colburn believed that architecture should express "grace, glory and aspirations." His design sense, joined with a brilliant rapport with clients, enabled an architecture that included modernist clarity and undeniable luxury. This book traces Colburn's life, from his childhood in Boston and education at Yale to a career that reached its heights in Chicago. He later returned to New England where he restored Early American houses and Gilded Age mansions. The arc of Colburn's career touches many influences without ever losing its exceptionally modern, and innovatively modernist, identity. I. W. Colburn: Emotion in Modern Architecture is the story of an exceptional architect and of more than 100 design projects, some of which seemed outlandish when built, but many of which appear timeless today.

A grandchild surprises a beloved grandmother with a night-blooming garden where she can work while she is ill. Includes facts and resources related to gardening.