"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Carolyn PhelanĬopyright © American Library Association. Appendixes include a chronology, source notes for quotations, and lists of books, recordings, and Web sites. Period photos, prints, and drawings illustrate the book. I cant get over the talent this little musical prodigy has. 'So you just put your fingers on the keys and. This 3-year-old sat down and the piano and started to play a masterpiece. One memorable chapter records how difficult travel became for Boone after Jim Crow laws restricted his access to hotels, restaurants, and even railway dining cars that had previously welcomed him. He was only a toddler when he taught himself to play the piano - by ear. From those interviews as well as books and archival materials, she has put together an interesting biography of a remarkable man. In a postscript, Harrah describes interviews she did 50 years ago with a man who had known Boone in his prime. After some education and musical training, Boone became a concert pianist, composing and performing everything from ragtime to classical music, everywhere from local churches to international concert halls. As a child in Missouri, he earned money playing tin whistle and harmonica on street corners and trains. Eleven-year-old piano prodigy and composer Thomas Greene Wiggins Bethune (1849-1908) is believed to have been the first African American artist to perform. John William "Blind" Boone, born to a runaway slave in 1864, lost his sight at the age of six months. Ginny Gustin, Sonoma County Library System, Santa Rosa, CAĬopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. A well-organized look at an interesting figure about whom very little has been written. Numerous period photos, a chronology, a bibliography, and a list of recordings are included. A postscript by the author describes her years of research and oral-history collecting, which began when she was a college student in 1953. Harrah's lively and appreciative text contains a great deal of fictionalizing, particularly in descriptions of Boone's childhood. Louis, he received introductory formal musical training, but it was in the saloons and gambling houses in the city's Tenderloin District that he first heard the lively renditions of folk tunes and the beginnings of ragtime that influenced his style. While attending the Missouri School for the Blind in St. Before he was five, he was able to repeat the piano pieces played by white children in the homes where his mother worked. He developed an amazing ability to reproduce any sound after hearing it only once. Born to a runaway slave shortly before the Civil War ended, Boone lost his sight due to an infection when he was six months old.
Grade 4-6-An introduction to the remarkably gifted but no longer widely known African-American pianist.
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