Bibliograph

Dancing hands, How teresa carreño played the piano for president lincoln., Margarita Engle

Type

Label

Dancing hands, How teresa carreño played the piano for president lincoln., Margarita Engle

Language

eng

resource.accompanyingMatter

technical information on music

Intended audience

1260, Lexile

Main title

Dancing hands

Medium

electronic resource

resource.readingGradeLevel

Text Difficulty 9 - Text Difficulty 12

Responsibility statement

Margarita Engle

Sub title

How teresa carreño played the piano for president lincoln.

Summary

As a little girl, Teresa Carreño loved to let her hands dance across the beautiful keys of the piano. If she felt sad, music cheered her up, and when she was happy, the piano helped her share that joy. Soon she was writing her own songs and performing in grand cathedrals. Then a revolution in Venezuela forced her family to flee to the United States. Teresa felt lonely in this unfamiliar place, where few of the people she met spoke Spanish. Worst of all, there was fighting in her new home, too-the Civil War. Still, Teresa kept playing, and soon she grew famous as the talented Piano Girl who could play anything from a folk song to a sonata-so famous, in fact, that President Abraham Lincoln wanted her to play at the White House! Yet with the country torn apart by war, could Teresa's music bring comfort to those who needed it most?

Target audience

juvenile

Classification

Contributor