{"product_id":"strange-mr-satie-composer-of-the-absurdisbn-9780763687756","title":"Strange Mr. Satie: Composer of the Absurd","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn a brilliant performance worthy of the composer, M. T. Anderson and Petra Mathers present a picture-book biography of the singular Erik Satie.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThroughout his life, Erik Satie wanted to make a new kind of music, a kind of music both very young and very old, very bold and very shy, that followed no rules but its own.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt first glance, Erik Satie looked as normal as anyone else in Paris one hundred years ago. Beyond his shy smile, however, was a mind like no other. When Satie sat down at the piano to compose or play music, his tunes were strange and dreamlike, his melodies topsy-turvy and discordant. Many people hated his music. Few understood it. But to Erik Satie there was sense in nonsense, and the vibrant, surreal compositions of this eccentric man-child would go on to influence many artists.\u003cb\u003e \u003cb\u003eM. T. Anderson \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eFeed\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ea National Book Award Finalist; the National Book Award winner \u003ci\u003eThe Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVolume II: The Kingdom on the Waves\u003c\/i\u003e, which were both Michael L. Printz Honor Books; \u003ci\u003eSymphony for the City of the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eYvain: The Night of the Lion\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e Landscape with Invisible Hand\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand many other books for children and young adults, including \u003ci\u003eThe Assassination of Brangwain Spurge\u003c\/i\u003e, cocreated with Eugene Yelchin, which was a National Book Award Finalist. M. T. Anderson lives near Boston, Massachusetts.\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePetra Mathers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (1945-2024) said, “Even though he walked everywhere he went, Satie was never a pedestrian; he was always a little aloft.” Petra Mathers wrote and\/or illustrated more than thirty books for children, four of which won \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Best Illustrated Children’s Books honors. Her first book,\u003ci\u003e Maria Theresa,\u003c\/i\u003e was awarded the Ezra Jack Keats Medal.","brand":"Candlewick","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304847954149,"sku":"NP9780763687756","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780763687755_c7a9375c-7640-40ae-b487-af56a5b2f8ae.jpg?v=1730758627","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/strange-mr-satie-composer-of-the-absurdisbn-9780763687756","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}