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Loyalty to a lead
John Sublett (stage name, John Bubbles) was a tap dancer unable to read music. He was chosen by Gershwin to …
Emerging from suffering
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” – Kahlil Gibran, Broken …
Mozart’s masterpieces
“Mozart makes you believe in God – much more than going to church – because it cannot be by chance …
Out of practice
“All I have left is a long nose and a fourth finger out of practice.” Chopin, in Scotland, unable to …
Easy Street
Title: Easy Street (Silent film soundtrack) Composer: Greg Smith Instrumentation: Piano Product medium: PDF score Related products: – MP3 soundtrack …
Chopin and counterpoint
With regard to counterpoint in Chopin’s music, you might be interested in the conversation that Chopin had not long before …
Handel’s dinner for three
Handel certainly liked to eat: A story is told of him that he once ordered up enough dinner for three. …
A poet is a nightingale
A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his …
The Battle of the Somme
Title: The Battle of the Somme (silent movie score) Composer: Greg Smith Instrumentation: Piano Product medium: Full score (PDF download) …
Don’t loaf and invite inspiration
Don’t dash off a six-thousand-word story before breakfast. Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than …
Rossini’s salad recipe
“Take the oil from Provence, English mustard, vinegar from France, a little ‘lemon, pepper, salt, beat and mix together; then …
Art cannot change events. But it can change people.
“The point is, art never stopped a war and never got anybody a job. That was never its function. Art …
Art is meant to be uplifting
“Art,” announces Pat Buchanan to Charlie Rose, “is meant to be uplifting.” What a relief! After all these years I’d …
Brian Wilson to complete Gershwin songs
In a surprise union of two quintessentially American composers from different eras, one the 1960s mastermind of “Good Vibrations,” the …
Knowledge of truth
This knowledge of truth, combined with proper regard for it, and its faithful observance, constitutes true education. The mere stuffing …

Air I

Air II

Air III

Air IV

Barcarolle

Beauty Around Us

Blue Flemingo

Bright Sunny Day

Feeling Fine

Lullaby for Ben

Lullaby for Berkeley

Lullaby for Edward

Merlin the Wizard

Miniature I

Minuet I

Musing by Moonlight

Piper’s Tale

Reverie II

Skye Boat Song

Smooth Sailing

Tales from the Carreck of Fergus McGee

Tally Ho!

The King’s Entrance

The Ruffled Knights

Through a Looking Glass

By Greg