Three weeks ago I launched a new publishing company, specifically to offer e-Books to Kindle and iBookstore.  The link below takes you to the current titles on Kindle.

 http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=red+orchid&x=22&y=18

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After I Stopped Singing

      Sometime in the late 1990's I stopped singing. All the songs I ever knew, including the choral works I loved in high school and college, could not make me sing. But, during the past few years I started… Read full post »

 

      Here is a piece of fiction.  But, like many pieces of fiction there is a high percentage of truth.  We have no accuarate measure for that truth, not yet.   Even as the writer, I cannot say how much of this is fear and how much is a predictable… Read full post »

A little Wicca history lesson...

Mr. Bach helps with our self-definitions...

 

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     Waking I feel the throb and hum of the trawler's engines. The ship is bouncing over small waves at a unhurried speed.  The hold is warmer now, in fact, I am sitting in a shallow pool of warm saltwater in complete darkness. … Read full post »

 

     I couldn't help notice as the man ran from the cab to shelter under the awning of the pawn shop, his left hand was missing three fingers.  Even from across the street I could see bleeding stumps where fingers should be.   Not waiting to be paid, the c/…

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 Janacek:  Sinfonietta. 1923

                                Handwritten score of Fanfare theme.

 Leos Janacek  bo/… Read full post »

                          Alexei Gavrilovich Venetsianov: The Reapers

 

  

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"Whether the sun is shining or not, I greet each day.  I'm grateful for another day to enjoy.  What more can I ask?"   --Christina Berry, age 94.

The local Senior Center decided to make a promotional video to get more seniors to show up.  They interviewed volunteers, beginnin… Read full post »

 

                                    Frederic Chopin,  composer/pianist

 

Chapter 9.  Berlioz an… Read full post »

                                                "The Devil's Trill… Read full post »

 

 

 

 

Chapter 7.               The long correspondence.

 

 

Dear M. Berlioz,

 

Thank you for your kind letter. Your words bring

much comfort to me, as my own readers in America

understand my… Read full post »

 

 

 

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 Chapter Five.    Letters after the Fall of Louis-Phillipe

 

The establishment of the Second Republic caused great

problems for Berlioz's loyal patron Armand Bertin.

Bertin was the wealthy owner of the newspaper, Journal

des Débats, and a member of the Orleani/… Read full post »

Chapter 4.        Berlioz and the Algerians.

In January 1848, Berlioz presents a New Year's

concert at the Theatre-Lyrique. After the concert, to

Berlioz's great surprise and pleasure Antara Shaddad

steps forward to greet him, and introduces Berlioz

to the legend of Algeria, A… Read full post »

I have two creations from the past few years which have helped me grow-up.  At 54, you'd think I was already grown-up-- well, there's always more to learn.  Especially, I have been trying to make sense of the behaviors of violence and stupidity which continue in our 21^st… Read full post »

 

 

 

Chapter 3.      On tour with Méphistophélès

 

During the next ten months of 1845 and 1846 conducting engagements

take Berlioz to Munich, Vienna, Pesht, Prague, and back to Paris for a

series of… Read full post »

Chapter 2.        First Dream of Algeria

 

Placing his music manuscript to one side on his desk

Berlioz rises, and comes back to his desk with the

brass incense-burner and the sandalwood incense.

He fills the inner cup with incense, lights it, and hangs

the… Read full post »

 Symphonie Fantastique

 a romance of Hector Berlioz

  

                                          novel  by  Charles Roland Berry

 

copyright… Read full post »

I recommend Caroline’s post on personal aesthetics and culture.  18 years ago a friend of mine, Hannah, decided to make a few dramatic choices, and she has stuck with them----as an art form.

 

 For me, my own pit hair is so damn irritating---it gets removed for comfor… Read full post »

The EU fluffs up its matted feathers to support the U.S. troop infusion....WTF?   Canada and the Netherlands have the good sense to withdraw their troops.

Has anyone considered that China might have had the most effective policy of all?

" Some eyebrows were therefore raised when i… Read full post »

I want to thank each of the writers who contributed their work to my Berrycomposer Impromptu Literary Award 2009---  let's call it BILA.

I decided to put my favorite works in my hat a bit earlier than I originally planned,  to celebrate Thanksgiving--

and the piece below is the winner: … Read full post »

my voice might hold me

to silence--words--hopefulness

find new friends distant.

 

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