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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
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
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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
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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
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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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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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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
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Birdie's Forever Day

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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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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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An Alternative History of Mozart

by Patrick Summers ...

Narrated by Dylan Godwin ...

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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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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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The New York Times Essential Library: Opera

by Anthony Tommasini ...

Series series The New York Times Essential Library
An insightful, provocative selection of the best opera performances, chosen by The New York Times's chief classical music critic in one hundred original essaysOpera intertwines the drama of the theater with the powerful emotionality of music. In this magical and illuminating guide to the best opera recordings, Anthony Tommasini delves into the ways story and music interweave to create the subtle ... Read more

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An insightful, provocative selection of the best opera performances, chosen by The New York Times's chief classical music critic in one hundred original essaysOpera intertwines the drama of the theater with the powerful emotionality of music. In this magical and illuminating guide to the best opera recordings, Anthony Tommasini delves into the ways story and music interweave to create the subtle
... Read more
Mozart

The Reign of Love

by Jan Swafford ...

From the acclaimed composer and biographer Jan Swafford comes the definitive biography of one of the most lauded musical geniuses in history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.At the earliest ages it was apparent that Wolfgang Mozart’s singular imagination was at work in every direction. He hated to be bored and hated to be idle, and through his life he responded to these threats with a repertoire of ... Read more

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From the acclaimed composer and biographer Jan Swafford comes the definitive biography of one of the most lauded musical geniuses in history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.At the earliest ages it was apparent that Wolfgang Mozart’s singular imagination was at work in every direction. He hated to be bored and hated to be idle, and through his life he responded to these threats with a repertoire of
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