Places I Love! A Collection of Links to SPB Posts Featuring Some of My Favorite Places on Earth
Posted on: September 16, 2011
Everywhere I go, I’m looking for connections to songs for cabaret and Singable Picture Books. Having personal connections to songs, and my NEED to share those connections, drive my compulsion to sing.
My favorite places connect me to many songs in the Singable Picture Book catalogue and it gives me such pleasure to share them with you in this list.
(Statue of Liberty by Eloise 2010)
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Central Park
“Sunshine On My Shoulders” always brings me back to warm sunny days sitting the hill beside the lake, listening to Guitar Dave
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/sunshine-on-my-shoulders-a-singable-picture-book/
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Children’s Museum, Indianapolis
When I worked as a Visitor Aid in the mid 1980′s, the vintage carousel at Indianapolis Children’s Museum played “The Teddy Bear Two Step” which is the instrumental music for which lyrics were written 25 years later to create the song we know as “The Teddy Bear’s Picnic”
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/teddy-bears-picnic-a-singable-picture-book/
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Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/both-sides-now-a-singable-picture-book-and-my-business-with-the-cloud-artwork-at-the-corcoran/
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HB Studio on Bank Street in New York City
This post is a personal tribute to Charles Nelson Reilly who cast me in my first cabaret and gave me a treasured gift
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2011/09/08/charles-nelson-reilly-and-my-first-cabaret/
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Lincoln Memorial and Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC
GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
This post celebrates a musical setting and illustration of the Gettysburg Address, which is carved into a wall of the stirring and iconic Lincoln Memorial
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2011/06/12/the-gettysburg-address-a-great-speech-and-a-singable-picture-book/
ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN SINGABLE PICTURE BOOKS
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/abraham-lincoln-in-singable-picture-books/
OUR ABE LINCOLN, A SINGABLE PICTURE BOOK
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2010/01/01/our-abe-lincoln-a-singable-book/
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Lockerbie House where James Whitcomb Riley lived in Indianapolis
James Whitcomb Riley, a Hoosier and “the Children’s Poet,” whose poems have often been set to music as well as illustrated, lived in the house on Lockerbie Street in Indianapolis for the last 20 or so years of his wonderful life
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2011/09/04/singable-picture-books-by-james-whitcomb-riley/
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National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC
Giuseppe Arcimboldo Exhibit 2010
The 2010 Archimboldo exhibit at the National Gallery and The Flower Carol (tempus adest floridum)
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2011/08/31/the-flower-carol-tempus-adest-floridum-a-singable-picture-book/
Wayne Thiebaud’s Work on Permanent Display 2011
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2011/02/17/wayne-thiebaud-delicious-artist-america-the-beautiful-and-happy-birthday/
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Plaza Hotel in NYC
It’s no mistake my daughter’s name is Eloise and that Eloise (created by Kay Thompson and illustrated by Hilary Knight) lives at the Plaza
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2010/08/20/a-few-favorite-singable-books-part-101-by-hilary-knight/
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Roman Colosseum
Mapping the Colosseum’s Underworld and the Benefits of Pencil and Paper for Creating Art
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2011/01/14/mapping-the-colosseums-underworld-and-the-benefits-of-pencil-and-paper-for-creating-art/
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Smithsonian Museum of American History
Phyllis Diller’s Gag File 2011, on Display for a Limited Time
This list of funny Singable Picture Books was inspired by a trip to Smithsonian National Museum of American History
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/thats-hilarious-a-list-of-singable-picture-books-thatll-crack-you-up/
Pop-Up Singable Picture Books
This list of Pop-Up Singable Picture books was inspried by the temporary exhibit, “Paper Engineering: Fold, Pull, Pop & Turn” at Smithsonian National Museum of American History
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2011/01/30/singable-pop-up-picture-books-and-smithsonian-exhibit-paper-engineering-fold-pull-pop-turn/
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Smithsonian American Art Museum and Portrait Gallery
Electronic Superhighway, Singable Art at Smithsonian’s American Art Museum
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/electronic-superhighway-singable-art-at-smithsonians-american-art-museum/
Preamble (1987) by Mike Wilkins, Singable Art…and We The Kids, a Singable Picture Book (and 50 Nifty States!)
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/preamble-1987-by-mike-wilkins-singable-art/
The Singable Picture Books with Norman Rockwell’s Art: Norman Rockwell at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and 2 Singable Picture Books
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/norman-rockwell-at-the-smithsonian-american-art-museum-and-2-singable-picture-books/
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Statue of Liberty
This post celebrates the Emma Lazarus poem Irving Berlin’s song:
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/give-me-your-tired-your-poor-a-singable-poem-in-picture-books/
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Related Posts
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NATIONAL PARKS (and PRAISE for National Park Rangers)
Singable Picture Books that illustrate songs with origins in locations of United States history which are in the care of the National Park Service
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/in-praise-of-national-park-rangers/
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FOURTH OF JULY AND OTHER HOLIDAYS CELEBRATING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND HER CITIZENS AND HISTORY
A list of Singable Picture Books celebrating the Fourth of July
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2010/06/22/a-patriotic-list-of-singable-books-for-july-4th/
