Gaston Leroux’s classic story of love and obsession set in the iconic Paris Opera House has achieved huge success as a Broadway Musical and in several Hollywood productions. Here is the story... More > in it’s original. Leroux creates a delicious mystery which slowly unravels as the danger rises.< Less
Gaston Leroux’s classic story of love and obsession set in the iconic Paris Opera House has achieved huge success as a Broadway Musical and in several Hollywood productions. Here is the story... More > in it’s original. Leroux creates a delicious mystery which slowly unravels as the danger rises.< Less
The French Quarter, New Orleans. A child is tortured and murdered. A killer must be caught. Three men must work together in a race against time. Another child is going to die. The French Quarter is... More > awake; and the French Quarter is afraid.< Less
The French Quarter, New Orleans. A child is tortured and murdered. A killer must be caught. Three men must work together in a race against time. Another child is going to die. The French Quarter is... More > awake; and the French Quarter is afraid.< Less
EXPRESSIONS is the third and final installment to Sandy Lo’s DREAM CATCHERS SERIES. The book is a series of vignettes written from the point-of-view of various characters throughout the book... More > series. From letters to blog entries to song lyrics, EXPRESSIONS delves deeper into the minds of the characters. Sandy hopes fans of the series will enjoy this 52-page companion book.< Less
On June 4, 1966, I took the life of my best friend. It was an accident.
We were twelve years old. Who knew one of us would never live to see thirteen. His name was Tony Ruminello, but everyone knew... More > him as 'Tater'.
His demise would perpetuate my suicide, although that would come several years later. I would spend most of my life torturing myself before I found the courage to deal with the inevitable.
Of course, I would find the distractions and delusions necessary to prolong my torture, but those diversions were only momentary. I was well aware what my fate spoke. I relied on my memory for relief. Forced my brain to release its pleasant thoughts of my life before that tragic summer day. In the end, the Blue Sun would be my Redemption.< Less
Christine Daae was brought up in the Paris Opera house. Her musician father suddenly dies, telling her he will send her an angel of music to look after her. She grows up and discovers that she is... More > hearing a voice, telling her and teaching her to sing. She believes he is the angel of music but he is known in the Opera House simply as The Phantom. Although she is fascinated and drawn towards the phantom, she falls in love with her childhood sweetheart, The Vicomte de Chagny - or Raoul - but the Phantom won't take this lightly...< Less
An SATB setting of the Lord's Prayer in Latin, using a contrapuntal style which relaxes toward a calm homophony at the end. Tone painting is exhibited particularly by the tortured voice leading as... More > the text pleads that we not be led into temptation (pages 5 and 6) and the use of the Gregorian "joy" motif (fa sol la sol la) at "gloria" (on page 7).
A video preview is on YouTube.< Less
at the time of writing these poems, late in 2009, I was flowing in an area of ebb of my spirit's potency, like someone hungry and not having eaten in many days (or heck, even a soldier 3 times... More > narrowly escaping death, but not escaping the torturing by others and the torture of responsibilities in a hostile environment--and not having eaten in days). to my surprise, the poems have their own quality of a quality art, for when the drums grow softer, the same attention to art is paid, or even more attention than in the "fulfilled" part of the cycle. facing hard times, making up poems. glad for the rhythm.< Less
at the time of writing these poems, late in 2009, I was flowing in an area of ebb of my spirit's potency, like someone hungry and not having eaten in many days (or heck, even a soldier 3 times... More > narrowly escaping death, but not escaping the torturing by others and the torture of responsibilities in a hostile environment--and not having eaten in days). to my surprise, the poems have their own quality of a quality art, for when the drums grow softer, the same attention to art is paid, or even more attention than in the "fulfilled" part of the cycle. facing hard times, making up poems. glad for the rhythm.< Less
