Reference, Special Needs

Soundtrack from Paradise Road movie using the music written down by the WWII POW women interned in Sumatra.

by Helen Colijn.  Music overcame despair for the women imprisoned on Japanese-held Sumatra for over 3 years in WWII.

Swingle Singers 1963 recording reissued.

Awakening Your Child's Mind, Health, and Creativity with Music by Don Campbell. 

Classic texts on music and nature and a CD of natural sounds.

Did you know you can "see" with sound?—an intro to bioacoustics and the music of nature for ages 9 and up.

By Lang Elliott.

Over 50 native birds, including songbirds and lesser-known birds that make curious, bizarre sounds.

Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places by Bernie Krause.

Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places by Bernie Krause.

Discover nature's music and learn how to make your own field recordings.

This award winning film,based on the novel Una Vida by Nicolas Bazan, is lyrically interwoven with the music of New Orleans.

A Symphony of the Human Spirit.  Award-winning documentary of a Paraguayan village built on a landfill, and the man who built instruments from the garbage and began The Recycled Orchestra.

The American Boy choir made a trip to Terezin Concentration Camp to learn about a work they perform using texts from the children in the camp. 20 years later they return and are reunited with the survivors they met earlier.

 A homeless musician adopts a flock of wild parrots in the hills of San Francisco. This true story about love, nature, and nurture will touch your heart, and surprise you at the end.

When renowned dancer Pierre Dulaine (Antonio Banderas) takes a teaching job in a NYC public school, he is ridiculed by the street-wise students. He begins to meld their hip-hop moves with his ballroom style and, over time, becomes their mentor. 

Set in medieval cloisters in mystic German landscapes, this passionate bio-drama features the12th-century Benedictine nun who was a composer and mystic.