Set in America's oldest seaport, Gloucester, Massachusetts, The Souls of the Sea portrays the rough-and-ready culture of commercial fishing on the perilous North Atlantic, depicting the world's most dangerous occupation through the passionate, colorful lives of the rugged fishermen and their heroic women.
This piano-duet rendition of the "Ukrainian Bell Carol" is a sure-fire audience winner. Written as free variations, the traditional melody undergoes several transformations---from a lighthearted polka to a brilliantly intense, virtuosic finale. Along the way, the players navigate crossed-hand playing, scales, trills, arpeggios, octave passages, exciting rhythms, and changes of meter. Audiences will enjoy a number of other musical surprises.
This fun piano duet arrangement of the famous "Inspector Gadget Theme" is entertaining and full of wit. The four-hand arrangement captures the ragtime character of the original theme, before breaking free into arrangers' imaginations. Dramatic pauses, abrupt changes of tempo, and daredevil passagework up and down the keyboard make this an exciting showpiece, perfect for a recital encore.
Punish The Dead by M.F. Tedesco: Thirty-one year-old Marco Antonio Correggere, a discreet painting forger with a photographic memory, visits the newly opened Elizabeth Ellington Museum with Elena, his 91 year-old grandmother. When Elena sees a renaissance painting entitled "The Madonna," she suffers a breakdown and claims it was stolen from her father in Italy nearly one hundred years ago. Marco doesn't believe her, nor can he afford to; an official investigation could jeopardize his cover. The people Marco works for wouldn't like that; there would be hell to pay, and Marco knows that he'd do the paying. But unable to ignore Elena's story, he ends up a criminal investigating a crime, and traces the painting's shaded provenance only to find more than he bargained for. Consumed by his family's tainted history and an obsession for a woman who died sixty years before he was born, Marco unravels the tangled threads of past and present and exposes the horrifying truth. When Marco asks himself: "How do I punish the dead?," his answer will be devastating. 324 pages
Leroy Anderson's "Sleigh Ride" is a holiday favorite, and this setting for advanced piano duet gives it a fresh twist. It begins with Anderson's jingling melody and some musical banter between the primo and secondo players, and then it launches into a series of variations that take the listener on a journey through a variety of styles, from gently swirling, impressionistic arpeggios to a triumphant coda with brilliant, virtuosic passagework. Audiences will enjoy a number of other musical surprises along the way.
More sketches and color paintings of violent and erotic fantasy worlds inhabited by monsters, barbarian warriors, and exotic women, all in the characteristic Frazetta style
Hoping to sell some of her watercolors, Becca Sims wanders into the seaside Gallery Valentine, never expecting that her life will be transformed by the gallery owner and his best friend, in a novel set in small-town South Carolina. Reprint.
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