These works were
written primarily to be used as classroom
teaching
pieces for
grade school music classes and/or for children's choral
performances.
They have been
performed in public by choirs at various levels
including
being
programmed as a novelty works
by college
groups.[N.B.
There is a new company now which is named the American Book
Company (in the Educational Instructional materials,
Software etc. area) They would appreciate not being
contacted about this earlier, now out of print series of
textbooks for children K-12.] VIEW SONGS on
web page
Premieres: March
1966, Raleigh NC, in the Raleigh public school system
series, conducted by the composer. These works was first
published by The (now defunct) American Book Company: in
their New Dimensions in Music series © 1970. They are
available here
as Adobe PDF files.
Click here to download Title Page, Texts & Acknowledgments (5 pages)