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Seven Touches of Music
Zoran Zivovic
Aio, Oct 2006, $23.95
ISBN: 1933083042
“The Whisper”. Dr. Martin had five learning disabilities students including autistic six years old Phillip. Dr. Martin brings in a recording of a Chopin Concerto that leads to Phillip providing a physics response involving the fine-structure constant.
“The Fire”. Lonely Mrs. Martha suddenly envisions the Library of Alexandria where somehow she obtains a lost book during the inferno.
“The Cat”. Mr. Oliver never visited second hand shops until after his wife, a frequenter of those establishments, died. That is where his late spouse bought Oscar the Cat who reluctantly trusts the old man to feed him. When Mr. Oliver brings home a music box that trust is tested as ghosts of his loved ones suddenly visit.
“The Waiting Room”. Miss Adele hates to travel, but plans to take the five hour train ride to see her ailing sister Mrs. Teresa. In the waiting room, an old man plays an organ grinder as she sees the apparition of her sister.
“The Puzzle”. After retiring from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence project, Mr. Adams feels compelled to paint when he listens to music in the local park though he had no artistic inclination during his first sixty-five years of life.
“The Violinist”. The Professor knows he will die tonight. When he hears a violin playing, he goes back six decades to when he was a lad in Italy practicing on a violin.
“The Violin-Maker”. Inspector Muratori assumes violin-maker Mr. Tomasi committed suicide while his assistant Mr. Umbertini knows his employer had completed the perfect violin before dying, but defected as it was built incorrectly.
These fascinating seven somewhat interrelated short stories are powerfully dark tales that focus on communication or lack of as universal secrets unfold. This reviewer read the contributions as separate entities though by the final tale the complex link will have cleverly completed its crescendo.
Zoran Zivovic
Aio, Oct 2006, $23.95
ISBN: 1933083042
“The Whisper”. Dr. Martin had five learning disabilities students including autistic six years old Phillip. Dr. Martin brings in a recording of a Chopin Concerto that leads to Phillip providing a physics response involving the fine-structure constant.
“The Fire”. Lonely Mrs. Martha suddenly envisions the Library of Alexandria where somehow she obtains a lost book during the inferno.
“The Cat”. Mr. Oliver never visited second hand shops until after his wife, a frequenter of those establishments, died. That is where his late spouse bought Oscar the Cat who reluctantly trusts the old man to feed him. When Mr. Oliver brings home a music box that trust is tested as ghosts of his loved ones suddenly visit.
“The Waiting Room”. Miss Adele hates to travel, but plans to take the five hour train ride to see her ailing sister Mrs. Teresa. In the waiting room, an old man plays an organ grinder as she sees the apparition of her sister.
“The Puzzle”. After retiring from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence project, Mr. Adams feels compelled to paint when he listens to music in the local park though he had no artistic inclination during his first sixty-five years of life.
“The Violinist”. The Professor knows he will die tonight. When he hears a violin playing, he goes back six decades to when he was a lad in Italy practicing on a violin.
“The Violin-Maker”. Inspector Muratori assumes violin-maker Mr. Tomasi committed suicide while his assistant Mr. Umbertini knows his employer had completed the perfect violin before dying, but defected as it was built incorrectly.
These fascinating seven somewhat interrelated short stories are powerfully dark tales that focus on communication or lack of as universal secrets unfold. This reviewer read the contributions as separate entities though by the final tale the complex link will have cleverly completed its crescendo.
