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The Wishing-Well and Other Fantasies
The Wishing-Well and other Fantasies by Maxine Handy
Burning in Blueness The Dark-Light of a Countertenor
Burning in Blueness is a haunting memoir of the world's foremost countertenor James Bowman. The author lyrically portrays and interprets her affinity with the great man and his music. The text is in three parts covering a total of three decades, to include James' work with David Munrow, Britten and Pears, and as the voice of Robert King's five-year Purcell series. The account is not chronological, but traces the creative contact between the author's literary interests and James Bowman's musical genius. The book makes a valuable contribution to musical history, as the famous and intensely private countertenor himself, has always resisted the suggestion of a conventional biography. Burning in Blueness is part of James' legacy as he approaches his 70th birthday in 2011.
Triple-Portrait of a Countertenor
Triple-Portrait traces over time a unique empathy with the voice of world-renowned countertenor James Bowman. First entranced by his May 1972 live performance of the Britten/Purcell realisation Sweeter Than Roses, the author later commissioned a Scena to mark his 50th birthday. A decade of creative contact followed, during which, James made his ecstatic music personal and even more beautiful, wrapping his listener in the dignity of Art.
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The Story of Little Nora Quoirin - a Dark Fairytale of the Rainforest
An interpretation of the mysterious disappearance and death of Nora Quoirin in the Malaysian Rainforest.
The Life of Bosworth
This is a witty and poignant story of a cat's life narrated by the cat as he meditates on his eighteen years in the village of Little Leigh, and his impending death. The text includes many unusual images and literary and artistic allusions from the ancient classical world and Christianity. This is an unusual philosophical work. Greek and Roman myths and biblical visions that are the basis of Western civilisation extend Bosworth's life beyond the limitations of his physical body, preparing the reader for the concluding text in which the cat discusses a feline afterlife, and the final accompanying image of 'an angel in a tree'.
Three Iron Horses and a Butterfly
This is a treatise on family history and is primarily about three gentlemen and a woman. They represent ancestors, from three different generations, who nobly carried their family torch and established high standards to which succeeding generations would aspire. These ancestors respectively, are two male slaves, the son of a freed slave and a daughter of the son of a freed slave. Their lives spanned three vastly different eras of American history, and each of them remarkably exhibited immense courage, patience, intelligence, insight, resourcefulness, the ability to endure, the willingness to struggle and the faith to sacrifice against all odds. Embedded in their landscapes were enormous setb...
Hamner Heritage
Nicholas Hamner (d 1703) emigrated from England or Wales and settled in Virginia. Descendants lived in Virginia, Alabama, Texas, and elsewhere.
