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The Spirit of This Place

How Music Illuminates the Human Spirit

by Patrick Summers ...

Artists today are at a crossroads. With funding for the arts and humanities endowments perpetually under attack, and school districts all over the United States scrapping their art curricula altogether, the place of the arts in our civic future is uncertain to say the least. At the same time, faced with the problems of the modern world—from water shortages and grave health concerns to global ... Read more

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Artists today are at a crossroads. With funding for the arts and humanities endowments perpetually under attack, and school districts all over the United States scrapping their art curricula altogether, the place of the arts in our civic future is uncertain to say the least. At the same time, faced with the problems of the modern world—from water shortages and grave health concerns to global
... Read more
Tapestries: Connections From an Artistic Life

by Patrick Summers ...

Through 50 personal essays, maestro Patrick Summers has woven a tapestry showcasing opera's many threads and colors across the centuries into today.It might seem strange to think in terms of fabric art to describe musical performance art, but this collection shows how many different arts comprise the whole. The author has devoted his career to opera, so he understands not only backstage logistics ... Read more

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Through 50 personal essays, maestro Patrick Summers has woven a tapestry showcasing opera's many threads and colors across the centuries into today.It might seem strange to think in terms of fabric art to describe musical performance art, but this collection shows how many different arts comprise the whole. The author has devoted his career to opera, so he understands not only backstage logistics
... Read more
52 Sundays: Weekly Sonnets from 2025

by Patrick Summers ...

A collection of sonnets by the Artistic and Music Director of the Houston Grand opera, who set himself the discipline of composing one sonnet every Sunday for one year. Each sonnet—a fourteen-line verse form in specific meter and rhyming schemes—captures the uniqueness of that week, at the same time expressing broader and more universal thoughts about our shared experience in the first quarter of ... Read more

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A collection of sonnets by the Artistic and Music Director of the Houston Grand opera, who set himself the discipline of composing one sonnet every Sunday for one year. Each sonnet—a fourteen-line verse form in specific meter and rhyming schemes—captures the uniqueness of that week, at the same time expressing broader and more universal thoughts about our shared experience in the first quarter of
... Read more
Key Change: An Alternative History of Mozart

by Patrick Summers ...

In 1821, Wolfgang Amadé Mozart reflects on his brushes with death, including the one that nearly killed him in 1791. Now settled into a sylvan old age in America with his wife, two sons, and grandchildren, the world-famous composer gives testament to his life and career.In the thirty years of extra time he was granted, he not only wrote more operas—including one that changed the course of history ... Read more

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In 1821, Wolfgang Amadé Mozart reflects on his brushes with death, including the one that nearly killed him in 1791. Now settled into a sylvan old age in America with his wife, two sons, and grandchildren, the world-famous composer gives testament to his life and career.In the thirty years of extra time he was granted, he not only wrote more operas—including one that changed the course of history
... Read more
A Collection of Brevities

by Patrick Summers ...

Joey was one of the most accomplished pianists in the world during classical music's last grand heyday at the end of the 20th century. He lived a luxurious life, and his performances in the great concert halls were globally televised. He was known even to people who do not follow music. But at the height of his career, before age 50, he suddenly and without explanation retired from playing. This ... Read more

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Joey was one of the most accomplished pianists in the world during classical music's last grand heyday at the end of the 20th century. He lived a luxurious life, and his performances in the great concert halls were globally televised. He was known even to people who do not follow music. But at the height of his career, before age 50, he suddenly and without explanation retired from playing. This
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Birdie's Forever Day

by Patrick Summers ...

From her modest home surrounded by great old trees in the small river town of Ophelia, Indiana, Birdie hears the language of the birds and believes they are talking to her. Whatever they are trying to communicate increases in intensity over her life. Born in 1900, for many years she works in the local telephone exchange and so is privy to conversations—and secrets—in Ophelia. But when she says the ... Read more

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From her modest home surrounded by great old trees in the small river town of Ophelia, Indiana, Birdie hears the language of the birds and believes they are talking to her. Whatever they are trying to communicate increases in intensity over her life. Born in 1900, for many years she works in the local telephone exchange and so is privy to conversations—and secrets—in Ophelia. But when she says the
... Read more

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The Prison of Time: Poems from 2023

by Patrick Summers ...

Many people are burdened with too much unoccupied time, and they quickly fall into anxiety, loneliness, and all kinds of frustrating behaviors. I am the opposite: I feel the constant pull of never having time to either do or reflect upon doing, and I obsess and worry more about time than any other aspect of living. Though it shouldn't, time imprisons me except when I'm writing. These poems combine ... Read more

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Many people are burdened with too much unoccupied time, and they quickly fall into anxiety, loneliness, and all kinds of frustrating behaviors. I am the opposite: I feel the constant pull of never having time to either do or reflect upon doing, and I obsess and worry more about time than any other aspect of living. Though it shouldn't, time imprisons me except when I'm writing. These poems combine
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A Collection of Brevities

by Patrick Summers ...

Narrated by Patrick Summers, Nova Thomas ...

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9 hours 15 min

Joey was one of the most accomplished pianists in the world during classical music’s last grand heyday at the end of the 20th century. He lived a luxurious life, and his performances in the great concert halls were globally televised. He was known even to people who do not follow music. But at the height of his career, before age 50, he suddenly and without explanation retired from playing. This ... Read more

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Joey was one of the most accomplished pianists in the world during classical music’s last grand heyday at the end of the 20th century. He lived a luxurious life, and his performances in the great concert halls were globally televised. He was known even to people who do not follow music. But at the height of his career, before age 50, he suddenly and without explanation retired from playing. This
... Read more

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Birdie's Forever Day

by Patrick Summers ...

Narrated by Nova Thomas ...

Unabridged

7 hours 1 min

From her modest home surrounded by great old trees in the small river town of Ophelia, Indiana, Birdie hears the language of the birds and believes they are talking to her. Whatever they are trying to communicate increases in intensity over her life. Born in 1900, for many years she works in the local telephone exchange and so is privy to conversations—and secrets—in Ophelia. But when she says the ... Read more

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From her modest home surrounded by great old trees in the small river town of Ophelia, Indiana, Birdie hears the language of the birds and believes they are talking to her. Whatever they are trying to communicate increases in intensity over her life. Born in 1900, for many years she works in the local telephone exchange and so is privy to conversations—and secrets—in Ophelia. But when she says the
... Read more

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Key Change

An Alternative History of Mozart

by Patrick Summers ...

Narrated by Dylan Godwin ...

Unabridged

19 hours 49 min

In 1821, Wolfgang Amadé Mozart reflects on his brushes with death, including the one that nearly killed him in 1791. Now settled into a sylvan old age in America with his wife, two sons, and grandchildren, the world-famous composer gives testament to his life and career.In the thirty years of extra time he was granted, he not only wrote more operas—including one that changed the course of history ... Read more

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In 1821, Wolfgang Amadé Mozart reflects on his brushes with death, including the one that nearly killed him in 1791. Now settled into a sylvan old age in America with his wife, two sons, and grandchildren, the world-famous composer gives testament to his life and career.In the thirty years of extra time he was granted, he not only wrote more operas—including one that changed the course of history
... Read more
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Descendant of Chaos

Descendant, Book 1

by M. Sinclair ...

Narrated by Dahlia Summers, Patrick Dubois ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Descendant
Unabridged

8 hours 22 min

Stay away from mages.It was a singular phrase my father had ingrained in me from the time of my birth. Sorry, Dad. I have a feeling that is going to be a problem.You have to understand… my life has been bland at best. Everything in my life, every single day, has been scripted, organized, and neat. Calm, cool, and collected. The problem? It wasn't real. I wasn't like the other witches in my father ... Read more

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Stay away from mages.It was a singular phrase my father had ingrained in me from the time of my birth. Sorry, Dad. I have a feeling that is going to be a problem.You have to understand… my life has been bland at best. Everything in my life, every single day, has been scripted, organized, and neat. Calm, cool, and collected. The problem? It wasn't real. I wasn't like the other witches in my father
... Read more
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Museum of the Omniverse: Dragon Exhibit

by David Lee Summers, Patrick Thomas, Carol Hightshoe, Timothy Zahn, Jeremiah Lynch ...

Narrated by Eric Schumacher, Chara Gallos-Allan, Zoee, Olivia Blake1, Bradford Trojan3, Charlie (Chick) Allan5, Richard (Chomps) Thompson7, Sara Mirasola9, Paul Schumacher1, Eric Schumacher, Chara Gallos-Allan, Zoee0, Olivia Blake2, Bradford Trojan4, Charlie (Chick) Allan6, Richard (Chomps) Thompson8, Sara Mirasola0, Paul Schumacher2 ...

Unabridged

4 hours 15 min

Welcome to the Museum of the Omniverse where you can safely experience actual events from every possible part of time and space. The museum is having some technical difficulties, however. Space time rifts have been opening throughout the museum and everyone has disappeared except for Mirandum, an exhibit curator. When a small group of visitors appears, Mirandum gives them a tour of the museum's ... Read more

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Welcome to the Museum of the Omniverse where you can safely experience actual events from every possible part of time and space. The museum is having some technical difficulties, however. Space time rifts have been opening throughout the museum and everyone has disappeared except for Mirandum, an exhibit curator. When a small group of visitors appears, Mirandum gives them a tour of the museum's
... Read more

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