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75Don Carlo Gesualdo: Prince, Composer and ... Murderer.
. The tormented life of Don Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer, prince and statesman, reads as though from the pages of a suspense novel rather than the annals of Sixteenth Century musicology. Gesualdo, living legend of the day, led a truly tragic...
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65The Little Nell Overature
. THE LITTLE NELL OVERTURE . I'LL admit I cried and cried, When Little Nell got zapped, Then died. Yeah, it's true, Her only crime was that she loved too much . EVERY high-brow, toothy...
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58My Holiday In Heaven
. VENTURED up to Heaven week before last On an extended holiday. Heaven really is the place to be, Or the place at least in which to be seen. Seriously, everyone was there. WARHOL had a hair...
58JILTED SUPERSTAR: Part 01
. On the final day I would see her alive, mom was a complete mess: About ninety pounds and covered in bedsores. The cheap perfume the attendant sprayed on her did only a marginal job of masking an odor of...
5 comments60JILTED SUPERSTAR: Part 20
. Growing up, I had positioned myself to be a collector of bad-vibes and negativity. Was I a complete stranger to myself, or merely a stranger...complete?( Or perhaps I was just a human being, just being human. ) In my assorted quests for...
14 comments59JILTED SUPERSTAR: Part 14
Mom's entire life had been spent in the pursuit of unattainable daydreams: her bohemian 1960s, hedonistic ‘70s and oscillatory ‘80s, her sexual forays, substance abuse, her delusions of grandeur spanning...
4 comments56JILTED SUPERSTAR: Part 15
. Some two years later, following mom's "Psalms Thirty-Four, Eighteen" episode (reference previous Hub, "A Mom's Dementia" published 4/19/08) much had changed but, Lord, was I unraveling into a mess. Within...
3 comments59JILTED SUPERSTAR: Part 16
. By late January of 2001, mom artfully crafted an alternate existence of prayers and begging, handouts or odd jobs. Come her fifty-eighth birthday, which conversely was also to be her last, the debilitating...
0 comments59JILTED SUPERSTAR: Part 10
. When I divorced, I knew there was a problem with much of the way I chose to manage, or moreso mismanage, my life; however, I simply wasn't very motivated to do much about it. I accepted that I was immature...
1 comment57JILTED SUPERSTAR: Part 05
. INTRODUCTORY REVIEW: With the 21st Century firmly underway we certainly can not predict with any certainty where society will evolve. However, even in admitting our ignorance, we can still identify the...
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