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In this entertaining and inspiring memoir, renowned educator Paul
Cummins candidly shares his journey from privileged kid and
ivory-tower scholar to hands-on progressive educator, working to
achieve social justice through education for all youth: from
children of celebrities to foster and incarcerated youth and those
facing sometimes unimaginable circumstantial hurdles to education
and accomplishment—proving time and again that all children can
succeed given appropriate support.
Herbert Zipper was born in 1904 in Hapsburg, Vienna. He was
educated in the finest academies, studying under Richard Strauss
and Maurice Ravel, among others, and became a conductor-composer in
Germany in the early 1930s. When Hitler became Chancellor, he
hastened back to Vienna, composing music for underground cabarets.
In 1938, after the Anschluss, he was sent to Dachau and transferred
to Buchenwald (1939). In Dachau, he organized clandestine concerts
in an abandoned latrine. He and prisonmate Jura Soyfer also
composed a song, "The Dachau Lied", which was to have an
extraordinary history. He was released from Buchenwald and
journeyed to Manila to marry the love of his life and to conduct
the Manila Symphony Orchestra. When the Japanese invaded (1942), he
was put in prison again. A few weeks after the liberation of
Manila, out of the rubble of the city he created an extraordinary
concert. After the war he came to America, was responsible for the
founding of over a dozen community arts schools, and has been an
internationally effective educator. Throughout his remarkable
journey, Zipper maintained a spirit of hope and achievement. This
is a story of the triumph of human will and spirit.
From the folly of celebrating Columbus to the disappearance of
frogs, from the excesses of standardized testing, to America's
sponsorship of an international arms race, KEEPING WATCH explodes
myths, exposes ignorance, and offers possibilities for America's
future.
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