Gail Prentice seeks the assistance of jazz saxophonist and musical arranger Ray Sherwood in creating an orchestration of her piano piece "Swing Around the Sun." The piece will be played at the 1940 Golden Gate World Exposition, located on an artificial island built in San Francisco Bay. Ray finds both the invitation and the composer appealing, but ...
A young writer named K. O'Connor snags a lucrative contract to write the life of Vince Collins, the singing half of the popular 1960s duo that also included comic Lanny Morris. What O'Connor wants to know is why the two split up--and in the course of her research she finds herself attracted to both of them.
This Charles Dickens novel was adapted for Broadway by Rupert Holmes in 1986, and went on to win 5 Tony Awards. 12 selections: There You Are * A Man Could Go Quite Mad * Two Kinsmen * Moonfall * The Wages of Sin * Both Sides of the Coin * Perfect Strangers * Never the Luck * Off to the Races * Don't Quit While You're Ahead * The Garden Path to ...
Our vocal selections book features 13 great songs from the Kander and Ebb musical comedy/murder mystery: Coffee Shop Nights * He Did It * I Miss the Music * In the Same Boat * It's a Business * Kansasland * Show People * Thataway! * Thinking of Him * A Tough Act to Follow * What Kind of Man * Wide Open Spaces * The Woman's Dead. Includes seven ...
'I would read in the next day's newspaper that the death of Marie Prasquier had been officially pronounced a suicide. The fact that Marie's motives for ending her own life were discovered by the authorities so very quickly after her death - enabling them to rule out the possibility of murder - greatly pleased the police, the press, the public, and ...
1940, San Francisco: Ray Sherwood has arrived in town on tour with the Jack Donovan Orchestra and plenty of bad memories. But in meeting two women on the same day Ray is shaken out of his stupor. One of the women, Gail, wants his help in orchestrating her avant-garde composition Swing Around the Sun, the other will plunge to her death just moments ...
"Life," the spectacular companion volume to the new Discovery Channel/BBC series, tells a majestic and compelling story of survival and of the amazing behaviors animals and plants adopt to stay alive and pass their genes to a new generation. Beautifully written and illustrated with more than 300 high-definition color photographs, "Life" focuses on ...
Gail Prentice seeks the assistance of jazz saxophonist and musical arranger Ray Sherwood in creating an orchestration of her piano piece "Swing Around the Sun." The piece will be played at the 1940 Golden Gate World Exposition, located on an artificial island built in San Francisco Bay. Ray finds both the invitation and the composer appealing, but ...
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