On January 27, 2013, at the Lewis home in Richmond, I will perform the first in a series of concerts for Caritas Works, a local training program to help homeless people find good jobs.
The program will consist of poetry spoken and sung, including readings and songs from Frameshifts, Hidden Moves and Hidden Voices, and Marking Time, the songs “Rappahannock” and “Just Enough,” and the featured work, The Fisher of the James, a song cycle based on the Grimms’ fairy tale, The Fisherman and His Wife, but set in modern day Richmond. An unemployed inventor and his discontented wife meet a magic fish who gives them their wishes, a history lesson, and a life-shifting lesson in the cost of wisdom.
On hand at the concerts will be my books, scores for performers, and copies of newly mastered CDs of some of my music. Books available: Volumes 1&2 of Frameshifts, Hidden Moves and Hidden Voices, Marking Time, Floats and Sinkers, and Finding a Purchase. CDs include Annunciations, Amber, The People’s Voice, The Fisher of the James, and La Rinuncia. Scores for musicians are: The People’s Voice, Annunciations, Missa brevis, La Rinuncia, and Amber. Proceeds of sales will go to Caritas Works.
I continue to work on mastering the tracks for The Books of Daniel, Runes and Tunes, and The Profit of Doom. Before too much longer, these works, together with scores for musicians and mp3 versions of all the music, should be finished. At that point, I will also place everything onto the Marginal Notes website, replacing the files currently online. Attached below is a general announcement for the series of concerts.
Most bookings after January 27, 2013 are tentative at this time, but I can tell you that one of the concerts will be in the Great Hall of the First Unitarian Universalist Church in Richmond on Saturday, February 16, 2013 at 2:00 p.m.
A SERIES OF MUSICAL PERFORMANCES BY RICHMOND WRITER AND COMPOSER RICHARD ROSE, AUTHOR OF FRAMESHIFTS, ABOUT AN UNEMPLOYED FISHERMAN, HIS DISCONTENTED WIFE, AND A MAGICAL FISH WHO TEACHES THEM THE HISTORY AND WISDOM OF THE PEOPLES OF THE RIVER.
ALL PROCEEDS FROM THESE CONCERTS WILL GO TO CARITAS WORKS, OUR RICHMOND TRAINING PROGRAM TO HELP PEOPLE GO FROM HOMELESSNESS TO GOOD JOBS.
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HELLO RAYMOND, Thanks for commenting on my ancient post. The Fisher of the James was produced years ago at several venues. I have a recording and the lead sheets. The libretto is in my new poetry collection, HOUSE OF A THOUSAND ROOMS. If you look at the frameshift.com website, you’ll find more recent blogs . And, although I haven’t posted the news yet, there are 3 new books and an opera in production this year. Here’s the boilerplate I’ll use for promoting my work whenever I get around to promoting it. Good to hear from you.
RLR
HERE’S THE BOILERPLATE:
To Readers and Listeners:
In 2022 I produced two last operas and three last books: House of a Thousand Rooms, Forms of Resistance, and Death on His Heels in Richmond. I give my books to friends and others who may be interested, in the hope that the works will be read; comments about them made on Amazon or elsewhere, and the books passed on to others. The stories, poems, and operas often revisit the world created in Frameshifts (2 vol. in 2011), available from Amazon in hardcopy and ebook formats, along with Coming Around in 2018 and PushBack in 2021. It seems unlikely that I will produce any new work. But you may still E-mail me for more information about writings and musical works or just to talk. The human project of caring for and about each other is also about keeping the long conversation going.
Peace, Richard L. Rose
Other CONTACT POINTS are: My email r.and.k.rose@gmail.com Although I’m a twitter quitter and facebook fade-out, I occasionally post on the blog site https://frameshifts.com/ & other outlets like: MEDIUM https://medium.com/@r-and-k-rose
Author page on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Richard-L-Rose/e/B007961XEU
Author landing-site https://formsofresistance.com/
Flipbook https://www.flipsnack.com/rlrose4621/tales-since-the-shift.html
YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzqDZ6vviAQek_TArXuGKjQ