"The STRINGS all soar, the REEDS implore, / The BRASSES roar with notes galore. / It's music that we all adore. / It's what we go to concerts for." In this exuberant tribute to classical music and the passionate, eccentric musicians who play it, author Lloyd Moss begins with the mournful moan and silken tone of one trombone. A trumpet sings and stings along, forming a duo, then a fine French horn joins in, "TWO, now THREE-O, what a TRIO!" The mellow cello ups it to a quartet, then ZIN! ZIN! ZIN! a violin soars high and moves in to make a quintet. The flute that "sends our soul a-shiver" makes a sextet, and "with steely keys that softly click," a sleek, black, woody clarinet slips the group into a septet. We move on! A chamber group of ten! And the orchestra is ready to begin. Moss should be congratulated for creating a playful, musical stream of rhyming couplets that seamlessly, slyly teaches the names of myriad musical groups. Marjorie Priceman, the whimsical, masterful illustrator of Elsa Okon Rael's When Zaydeh Danced on Eldridge Street and Jack Prelutsky's For Laughing Out Loud, won a Caldecott Honor Award for this swirling, twirling, colorful musical world worthy of thunderous applause and a standing ovation. Ages 4-8.
《大家来听音乐会》以轻松、诙谐的笔调，艳丽温暖的色彩，勾勒出各种乐器特别的造型，加上简练的文字、清楚的形容，这些乐器的形象更深刻地印在孩子心中。不过，这绝对不只是一本乐器图鉴，作者很幽默地以每一位演奏者特别的造型、体态及服装，和他所演奏的乐器在造型上相互配合呼应，一方面增加趣味，一方面加深印象，例如：圆号由矮矮胖胖的绅士演奏，大提琴的演奏者穿着条纹装，身上一条一条的花纹，与琴弦呼应着。拉小提琴的是一位穿礼服的酷哥，看看他浪漫的金发，似乎暗示着琴声的委婉多情。
By Lloyd Moss, Illustrated by Marjorie Priceman, Hardcover, Simplified Chinese Characters, 27 pages, 11.25"x8.75"
