Derek Bailey is one of Britain's finest tenors. He never forgets Elspeth McPhail, the young Scottish house-keeper who worked for him when he was starting his career in the thirties. Although he... More > becomes famous and successful his personal life is far from fulfilling.
This novel covers Derek's professional and personal life over a span of forty years including his two unsatisfactory marriages and his five-year affair with a girl young enough to be his grand-daughter.< Less
Derek Bailey is one of Britain's finest tenors. He never forgets Elspeth McPhail, the young Scottish house-keeper who worked for him when he was starting his career in the thirties. Although he... More > becomes famous and successful his personal life is far from fulfilling.
This novel covers Derek's professional and personal life over a span of forty years including his two unsatisfactory marriages and his five-year affair with a girl young enough to be his grand-daughter.< Less
Les Nuits d'été, 6 melodies of Hector Berlioz pour voix haute (soprano ou ténor), avec un accompagnement de piano, violon et violoncelle (arrangement Patrick Loiseleur). Ce... More > fichier inclut la partition complète, la parties séparées de violon, et la partie séparée de violoncelle.
This is the full score of an arrangement for high voice (soprano or tenor), piano, violin and cello of the Berlioz's 6 famous Nuits d'Ete (Summer Nights). The violon and cello parts are also included in the same file.< Less
Song Cycle: La Belle Dame sans Merci (trans. The Beautiful Lady without Mercy) is one of Keats' most famous poems and tells the tale of a young knight who is bewitched one springtime by a seductive... More > fay. The knight gladly succumbs to the fairy's charms, is 'kissed to sleep' but then encounters a very troubling dream. Upon waking he finds that he is alone, spring and summer have fled away, and he is left to answer the probing questions of a passerby on the 'lone hillside.' The poem became a favorite subject for visual artists in the British Isles, particularly among the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. One of those paintings, a work by Waterhouse, was the inspiration for this song cycle.< Less
Song Cycle: La Belle Dame sans Merci (trans. The Beautiful Lady without Mercy) is one of Keats' most famous poems and tells the tale of a young knight who is bewitched one springtime by a seductive... More > fay. The knight gladly succumbs to the fairy's charms, is 'kissed to sleep' but then encounters a very troubling dream. Upon waking he finds that he is alone, spring and summer have fled away, and he is left to answer the probing questions of a passerby on the 'lone hillside.' The poem became a favorite subject for visual artists in the British Isles, particularly among the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. One of those paintings, a work by Waterhouse, was the inspiration for this song cycle.< Less
Book #2 of Father Jon Series continues as Father Jon Mark, after suffering a shattered thigh-bone, becomes a chaplain in the hospital during his extended recovery. A young woman with both legs... More > damaged in an auto accident, an elderly nun who wants to go 'home' to die, and a world famous tenor team together to raise funds for the hospital in spite of their individual illnesses.< Less
Book #2 of Father Jon Series continues as Father Jon Mark, after suffering a shattered thigh-bone, becomes a chaplain in the hospital during his extended recovery. A young woman with both legs... More > damaged in an auto accident, an elderly nun who wants to go 'home' to die, and a world famous tenor team together to raise funds for the hospital in spite of their individual illnesses.< Less
Book #2 of Father Jon Series continues as Father Jon Mark, after suffering a shattered thigh-bone, becomes a chaplain in the hospital during his extended recovery. A young woman with both legs... More > damaged in an auto accident, an elderly nun who wants to go 'home' to die, and a world famous tenor team together to raise funds for the hospital in spite of their individual illnesses.< Less
Les Nuits d'été, 6 mélodies d'Hector Berlioz pour voix haute (soprano ou ténor), avec un accompagnement de piano, violon et violoncelle (arrangement Patrick Loiseleur).... More > Ceci est la partition complète: les parties séparées de violon et de violoncelle sont également disponibles sur ce site.
This is the full score of an arrangement for high voice (soprano or tenor), piano, violin and cello of the Berlioz's 6 famous Nuits d'Ete (Summer Nights). The violon and cello parts also available on this site.< Less
Newspaper critic Ragland Hughes is openly gay. Opera tenor Cosimo Fratangelo is famously straight. No one gay or straight says a word as they watch the men’s relationship evolve from... More > professional association to loving friendship—so long as both men remain alive and profitable.
When the body of one of the men washes ashore off Long Island Sound, convulsive testimony indicts the survivor as the prosecution’s lone suspect. The media melee that ensues not only casts unwelcome light on the forces keeping a gay man and a straight man from enjoying friendship, it brands Hughes a predator of heterosexual men and Fratangelo a sociopath torn between ambition and drugs.
Part thwarted love story, part cautionary tale, part philosophical rant, VOICE OF FORCE sounds out the deep divide of sexual difference running through even the most liberal of enclaves. We know a murder has been committed but in the end we’re left deciphering what the larger crime is and how long it’s been in the making.< Less
