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A collaboration between Andy Quinones and Out Of Orion. This CD is a collection of different tracks we created over the years. Music and production on The Sultan/Knight And The Faerie/Bell Rock by JTL. Music and production on Riolama Ver 1 and 2 by gesh, Music and production on Waiting Line by Crogman Studios and music on Trip To Faerie by Bonamici. All words by Out Of Orion with the exception of Spanish translations on Riolama Ver 1 and 2 and Camino Royal by Andy Quinones and Dragon Scales by Al Pettitt. All vocals by Andy Quinones with exception of shared vocals with Out Of Orion on Riolama Ver 1 and 2. The full CD with vocals and music for The Lord And The Chambermaid can be found here: https://archive.org/details/lordandchambermaid Cover photograph by Chris Hewitt.

A collaboration between Andy Quinones and Out Of Orion. This CD is a collection of different tracks we created over the years. Music and production on The Sultan/Knight And The Faerie/Bell Rock by JTL. Music and production on Riolama Ver 1 and 2 by gesh, Music and production on Waiting Line by Crogman Studios and music on Trip To Faerie by Bonamici. All words by Out Of Orion with the exception of Spanish translations on Riolama Ver 1 and 2 and Camino Royal by Andy Quinones and Dragon Scales by Al Pettitt. All vocals by Andy Quinones with exception of shared vocals with Out Of Orion on Riolama Ver 1 and 2. The full CD with vocals and music for The Lord And The Chambermaid can be found here: https://archive.org/details/lordandchambermaid Cover photograph by Chris Hewitt.

Tracklist: 1. Opening Cedits 2. Chalotte, And The Prince 3. Verver's London Home / A Fresh Start 4. Green Park / The Golden Bowl / Fauns 5. Charlotte And Verver / Photograph Of Maggie 6. Charlotte And Verver In Italy 7. Lancaster House / Lady Gwendolyn's Galop 8. Photographs / After The Costume Ball 9. Sofa Waltz / The Kiss / Candles On The Staircase 10. Inn 11. Madame Tussaud / The Steam Museum 12. Golden Slave 13. Lecture / Maggie Finds The Bowl 14. American City 15. Verver In Despair 16. Broken Bowl 17. Letter / The Execution / Henry VIII 18. To American City 19. End Credits

Tracklist: 1. Opening Cedits 2. Chalotte, And The Prince 3. Verver's London Home / A Fresh Start 4. Green Park / The Golden Bowl / Fauns 5. Charlotte And Verver / Photograph Of Maggie 6. Charlotte And Verver In Italy 7. Lancaster House / Lady Gwendolyn's Galop 8. Photographs / After The Costume Ball 9. Sofa Waltz / The Kiss / Candles On The Staircase 10. Inn 11. Madame Tussaud / The Steam Museum 12. Golden Slave 13. Lecture / Maggie Finds The Bowl 14. American City 15. Verver In Despair 16. Broken Bowl 17. Letter / The Execution / Henry VIII 18. To American City 19. End Credits

Tracklist: 1. Opening Cedits 2. Chalotte, And The Prince 3. Verver's London Home / A Fresh Start 4. Green Park / The Golden Bowl / Fauns 5. Charlotte And Verver / Photograph Of Maggie 6. Charlotte And Verver In Italy 7. Lancaster House / Lady Gwendolyn's Galop 8. Photographs / After The Costume Ball 9. Sofa Waltz / The Kiss / Candles On The Staircase 10. Inn 11. Madame Tussaud / The Steam Museum 12. Golden Slave 13. Lecture / Maggie Finds The Bowl 14. American City 15. Verver In Despair 16. Broken Bowl 17. Letter / The Execution / Henry VIII 18. To American City 19. End Credits

Tracklist: 1. Opening Cedits 2. Chalotte, And The Prince 3. Verver's London Home / A Fresh Start 4. Green Park / The Golden Bowl / Fauns 5. Charlotte And Verver / Photograph Of Maggie 6. Charlotte And Verver In Italy 7. Lancaster House / Lady Gwendolyn's Galop 8. Photographs / After The Costume Ball 9. Sofa Waltz / The Kiss / Candles On The Staircase 10. Inn 11. Madame Tussaud / The Steam Museum 12. Golden Slave 13. Lecture / Maggie Finds The Bowl 14. American City 15. Verver In Despair 16. Broken Bowl 17. Letter / The Execution / Henry VIII 18. To American City 19. End Credits

Tracklist: 1. Opening Cedits 2. Chalotte, And The Prince 3. Verver's London Home / A Fresh Start 4. Green Park / The Golden Bowl / Fauns 5. Charlotte And Verver / Photograph Of Maggie 6. Charlotte And Verver In Italy 7. Lancaster House / Lady Gwendolyn's Galop 8. Photographs / After The Costume Ball 9. Sofa Waltz / The Kiss / Candles On The Staircase 10. Inn 11. Madame Tussaud / The Steam Museum 12. Golden Slave 13. Lecture / Maggie Finds The Bowl 14. American City 15. Verver In Despair 16. Broken Bowl 17. Letter / The Execution / Henry VIII 18. To American City 19. End Credits

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The Golden Bowl  is a 1972 British  television series  which originally aired on  BBC 2  in six episodes. It is an adaptation of the 1904 novel  The Golden Bowl  by  Henry James .

Book from Project Gutenberg: The Golden Bowl - Volume 1 Library of Congress Classification: PS

2 v. : 22 cm

The Golden Bowl  is a 1972 British  television series  which originally aired on  BBC 2  in six episodes. It is an adaptation of the 1904 novel  The Golden Bowl  by  Henry James .

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Broken Is The Golden Bowl was written in response to Disquiet Junto Project  0442: One Sentence      Step 1: Choose a favorite single sentence. The sentence should be from prose or poetry, but not a song lyric.   Step 2: Say the sentence out loud, slowly, several times in a row. Consider its shape, its tone, its cadence, and its content, and how these connect with each other.   Step 3: In some way that you can understand, map the exploration of the sentence from Step 2.   Step 4: Compose a piece of music that follows the map from Step 3. Note that the finished piece shouldn’t (or better yet: needn’t) include the spoken sentence (that is, it’s best if it’s purely instrumental), and it might last much longer than the sentence would take to say out loud. Broken Is The Golden Bowl used the poetry of Edgar Allen Poe in his poem, Lenore.   Ah, broken is the golden bowl!   The spirit flown forever!   Let the bell toll! — A saintly soul   Glides down the Stygian river! Broken Is The Golden Bowl was written for Clarinet, Trombone, Violin, Viola, Cello and String Bass.

Broken Is The Golden Bowl was written in response to Disquiet Junto Project  0442: One Sentence      Step 1: Choose a favorite single sentence. The sentence should be from prose or poetry, but not a song lyric.   Step 2: Say the sentence out loud, slowly, several times in a row. Consider its shape, its tone, its cadence, and its content, and how these connect with each other.   Step 3: In some way that you can understand, map the exploration of the sentence from Step 2.   Step 4: Compose a piece of music that follows the map from Step 3. Note that the finished piece shouldn’t (or better yet: needn’t) include the spoken sentence (that is, it’s best if it’s purely instrumental), and it might last much longer than the sentence would take to say out loud. Broken Is The Golden Bowl used the poetry of Edgar Allen Poe in his poem, Lenore.   Ah, broken is the golden bowl!   The spirit flown forever!   Let the bell toll! — A saintly soul   Glides down the Stygian river! Broken Is The Golden Bowl was written for Clarinet, Trombone, Violin, Viola, Cello and String Bass.

Broken Is The Golden Bowl was written in response to Disquiet Junto Project  0442: One Sentence      Step 1: Choose a favorite single sentence. The sentence should be from prose or poetry, but not a song lyric.   Step 2: Say the sentence out loud, slowly, several times in a row. Consider its shape, its tone, its cadence, and its content, and how these connect with each other.   Step 3: In some way that you can understand, map the exploration of the sentence from Step 2.   Step 4: Compose a piece of music that follows the map from Step 3. Note that the finished piece shouldn’t (or better yet: needn’t) include the spoken sentence (that is, it’s best if it’s purely instrumental), and it might last much longer than the sentence would take to say out loud. Broken Is The Golden Bowl used the poetry of Edgar Allen Poe in his poem, Lenore.   Ah, broken is the golden bowl!   The spirit flown forever!   Let the bell toll! — A saintly soul   Glides down the Stygian river! Broken Is The Golden Bowl was written for Clarinet, Trombone, Violin, Viola, Cello and String Bass.

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Book from Project Gutenberg: The Golden Bowl - Volume 2 Library of Congress Classification: PS

Book from Project Gutenberg: The Golden Bowl - Volume 2 Library of Congress Classification: PS

Book from Project Gutenberg: The Golden Bowl - Volume 2 Library of Congress Classification: PS

Book from Project Gutenberg: The Golden Bowl - Volume 2 Library of Congress Classification: PS

Book from Project Gutenberg: The Golden Bowl - Complete Library of Congress Classification: PS

Book from Project Gutenberg: The Golden Bowl - Complete Library of Congress Classification: PS

The Golden Bowl  is a 1972 British  television series  which originally aired on  BBC 2  in six episodes. It is an adaptation of the 1904 novel  The Golden Bowl  by  Henry James .

The Golden Bowl  is a 1972 British  television series  which originally aired on  BBC 2  in six episodes. It is an adaptation of the 1904 novel  The Golden Bowl  by  Henry James .

2 v. : 21 cm

2 v. ; 20 cm

2 v. ; 20 cm

2 v. ; 20 cm

Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

Spec. Coll. copy: Photograph of the author pasted on inside front cover

Includes bibliographical references

Includes bibliographical references

Includes bibliographical references

Includes bibliographical references

Includes bibliographical references

Includes bibliographical references

1International Episode

By Henry James

Two men visiting the US from London meet a pair of charming women who return the visit the following year in London. Romantic intrigues, miscommunication and cultural faux pas abound in this short but delightful novel. (Summary written by Kristen McQuillin)

Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) was a medieval scholar; Provost of King’s College, Cambridge. He wrote many of his ghost stories to be read aloud in the long tradition of spooky Christmas Eve tales. His stories often use rural settings, with a quiet, scholarly protagonist getting caught up in the activities of supernatural forces. The details of horror are almost never explicit, the stories relying on a gentle, bucolic background to emphasise the awfulness of the otherworldly intrusions.<br /><br />“Ghost Stories of an Antiquary” was written as two collections, presented here as two volumes in a single work. There is a short author’s preface before the first story in each volume. (Summary by Peter Yearsley)

3Turn of the Screw

By Henry James

<em>The Turn of the Screw</em> is a novella written by Henry James. It is a ghost story that was originally published in 1898. A nameless governess reports the events of two ghosts who stalk the young children she has charge over. Is she reliable, or an imaginative neurotic? (Summary adapted from Wikipedia)

William James (1842 – 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and the philosophies of pragmatism and Radical Empiricism.<br /><br />Essays in Radical Empiricism is a collection edited and published posthumously by his colleague and biographer Ralph Barton Perry in 1912. It was assembled from a collection of reprinted journal articles published from 1904–1905 which James had deposited in August, 1906, at the Harvard University for supplemental use by his students. (Wikipedia)

5Portrait of a Lady, Volume 1

By Henry James

The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-1881 and then as a book in 1881. It is the story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer, who "affronts her destiny" and finds it overwhelming. She inherits a large amount of money and subsequently becomes the victim of Machiavellian scheming by two American expatriates. Like many of James's novels, it is set mostly in Europe, notably England and Italy. Generally regarded as the masterpiece of his early phase of writing, this novel reflects James's absorbing interest in the differences between the New World and the Old. It also treats in a profound way the themes of personal freedom, responsibility, betrayal, and sexuality. (Summary from Wikipedia)

6Washington Square

By Henry James

Washington Square is a short novel by Henry James. Originally published in 1880 as a serial in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Magazine, it is a structurally simple tragicomedy that recounts the conflict between a dull but sweet daughter and her brilliant, domineering father. <br><br>The book is often compared to Jane Austen's work for the clarity and grace of its prose and its intense focus on family relationships. James was hardly a great admirer of Jane Austen, so he might not have regarded the comparison as flattering. In fact, James was not a great fan of Washington Square itself. He tried to read it over for inclusion in the New York Edition of his fiction (1907-1909) but found that he couldn't, and the novel was not included. Other readers, though, have sufficiently enjoyed the book to make it one of the more popular works of the Jamesian canon. (summary from Wikipedia)

7Daisy Miller: A Study in Two Parts

By Henry James

Daisy Miller is an 1878 novella by Henry James. It portrays the confused courtship of the eponymous American girl by Winterbourne, a compatriot of hers with much more sophistication. His pursuit of her is hampered by her own flirtatiousness, which is frowned upon by the other expatriates they meet in Switzerland and Italy. Her lack of understanding of the social mores of the society she so desperately wishes to enter ultimately leads to tragedy. (Summary from Wikipedia)

8Portrait of a Lady, Volume 2

By Henry James

<i>The Portrait of a Lady</i> is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-1881 and then as a book in 1881. It is the story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer, who "affronts her destiny" and finds it overwhelming. She inherits a large amount of money and subsequently becomes the victim of Machiavellian scheming by two American expatriates. Like many of James's novels, it is set mostly in Europe, notably England and Italy.<br><br>Generally regarded as the masterpiece of his early phase of writing, this novel reflects James's absorbing interest in the differences between the New World and the Old. It also treats in a profound way the themes of personal freedom, responsibility, betrayal, and sexuality. (Summary from Wikipedia)

9Wings of the Dove

By Henry James

"The Wings of the Dove," published in 1902, represents to my memory a very old--if I shouldn't perhaps rather say a very young--motive; I can scarce remember the time when the situation on which this long-drawn fiction mainly rests was not vividly present to me. The idea, reduced to its essence, is that of a young person conscious of a great capacity for life, but early stricken and doomed, condemned to die under short respite, while also enamoured of the world; aware moreover of the condemnation and passionately desiring to "put in" before extinction as many of the finer vibrations as possible, and so achieve, however briefly and brokenly, the sense of having lived. (summary taken from the Preface by Henry James)

The Moral Equivalent of War, the last public utterance of William James, is significant as expressing the opinions of a practical psychologist on a question of growing popular interest. For the past fifteen years the movement for promoting international peace has been enlisting the support of organizations and individuals the world over. That this is a question on which much may be said for the opposition, James, though a pacificist, admits with his usual fair-mindedness, pointing out that militarism is the sole nourisher of certain human virtues that the world cannot let die, and that until the peace party devises some substitute, some moral equivalent, for the disciplinary value of war, their utopian goal is neither desirable nor possible. His own solution is advanced not as a practical measure, but merely as an illustration to show that the world is full of opportunities for the peaceful development and continuation of the martial qualities of human life. <BR><BR> This essay was written for general dissemination as a publication of the American Association for International Conciliation, February, 1910. As it not only presents a peace program but defines as well the most familiar arguments of the war party, no militarist article has been included, although it may be mentioned that a suggestive apology for war is to be found among De Quincey's Essays and also in Ruskin's Crown of Wild Olive. Additional documents on conciliation, approaching the question from innumerable points of view, are published by the Association mentioned above.<BR> (Summary by Harrison Ross Steeves and Frank Humphrey Ristine, editors.)<br /><br /> Edited and with an introduction by Harrison Ross Steeves (1881-1981) and Frank Humphrey Ristine (1884-1958)

11Golden Bowl

By Henry James

The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some critics have called the "major phase" of James' career. The Golden Bowl explores the tangle of interrelationships between a father and daughter and their respective spouses. The novel focuses deeply and almost exclusively on the consciousness of the central characters, with sometimes obsessive detail but also with powerful insight. (Summary by Wikipedia)

12Varieties of Religious Experience

By William James

The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature is a book by the Harvard psychologist and philosopher William James that comprises his edited Gifford Lectures on "Natural Theology" delivered at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland between 1901 and 1902. These lectures concerned the nature of religion and the neglect of science, in James' view, in the academic study of religion. Soon after its publication, the book found its way into the canon of psychology and philosophy, and has remained in print for over a century. (Summary by Wikipedia)

13Small Boy and Others

By Henry James

<i>A Small Boy and Others</i> is a book of autobiography by Henry James published in 1913. The book covers James's earliest years and discusses his intellectually active family, his intermittent schooling, and his first trips to Europe. (Summary from Wikipedia)

14Five Jars

By M. R. James

The Five Jars is the only novel written by James, who is best known for his ghost stories. It is a peculiarly surreal fantasy apparently written for children. While he is out walking, the narrator is drawn to a remote pool, and finds a small box that has been hidden since Roman times. He gradually learns how to use its contents, fighting off a series of attempts to steal it, and becomes aware of a strange world hidden from our own. (Summary by Peter Yearsley)

15Beast in the Jungle

By Henry James

'The Beast in the Jungle' is a 1903 novella by Henry James, first published as part of the collection, The Better Sort. Almost universally considered one of James' finest short narratives, this story treats appropriately universal themes: loneliness, fate, love and death. The parable of John Marcher and his peculiar destiny has spoken to many readers who have speculated on the worth and meaning of human life.(Summary by Wikipedia)

16Europeans

By Henry James

The Europeans: A sketch is a short novel by Henry James, published in 1878. It is essentially a comedy contrasting the behaviour and attitudes of two visitors from Europe with those of their relatives living in the 'new' world of New England. The novel first appeared as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly for July-October, 1878. James made numerous minor revisions for the first book publication. (Summary by Wikipedia)

17Aspern Papers

By Henry James

One of James’s favorite short novels, the Aspern Papers tells of the efforts of the nameless narrator to procure the papers of a famous, but now dead, American poet. His attempts to secure them from the poet’s former lover and her niece, now recluses in Venice, are stymied both by them, and by his own mistakes in his quest.

A lecture on the art of fiction, given by the English critic Walter Besant on April 25, 1884, and an answer to the lecture by American writer Henry James in the same year. (Summary by Julie VW)

19Jolly Corner

By Henry James

"The Jolly Corner," published in 1908, is considered by many to be a ghost story ranking second only to "The Turn of the Screw." James’s protagonist, Spencer Brydon, is an American of 56, returned to New York after 33 years in Europe, where he has apparently accomplished little while living off his New York rentals. His friendship with Alice Staverton, and his engagement in the development of a property awaken him to the possibilities that might have been his, had he chosen a different course of life. The "ghost," if that’s what it is, is that other self that might have been, and his confrontation with that self and its possibilities leads to a deeply unsettling, yet ambiguous, conclusion.

20Figure in the Carpet

By Henry James

The story ostensibly concerns a young literary critics who greatly admires the writer Hugh Vereker. A meeting with Vereker, however, shows him that he – and all other critics – have in fact missed the great point of Vereker's work, and the critic (and his editor) thereupon devote themselves to trying to unravel the mystery. James's story, however, almost certainly has an autobiographical side to it, perhaps itself criticizing those critics who couldn't see, or wouldn't see, the figures lost in the carpet of his own writing. (Summary by Nicholas Clifford)

21Sir Dominick Ferrand

By Henry James

"Levity" is not a word often applied to Henry James, but this story has about it an attractively lighthearted quality. It tells of Peter Baron, a poor, young struggling writer of adequate, if not transcendent, talent, who lives in a dreary London boarding house inhabited also by a mysteriously clairvoyant and beautiful young widow, with her small boy. When Baron buys himself a second-hand writing desk to stimulate the creative juices, he finds carefully hidden within it a cache of letters that appear to compromise a recently deceased statesman. The discovery and his struggle to handle the questions they pose ultimately change his life. Along the way he also discovers, as a fringe benefit, a talent for what Americans (though probably not Jamesians) call Tin Pan Alley. (Summary by Nicholas Clifford)

22Pupil

By Henry James

Pemberton, a young American with an Oxford education and out of money, takes a job tutoring Morgan Moreen, the 12-year old son of an American couple living in Europe in a style not quite matched by their income. Mr. and Mrs. Moreen's main purpose in life, it appears, is to win acceptance in the higher circles of French and Italian society, partly in the hope that Morgan's two elder sisters will be taken off their hands. Morgan, who is highly intelligent, is also precocious and perceptive enough to come to understand his parents' ambitious aimlessness. Something of a crisis develops when the Moreens fail to make good on the salary they've promised Pemberton, and he leaves, needing a steady income. By then, however, the tutor has become sufficiently interested in and attached to his charge to be unwilling to leave Morgan for long, and comes back to join the family when when Morgan's mother tells him the boy has fallen ill. There, however, he finds the family shipwreck that he has feared is now taking place, and he is in time to witness it. (Summary by Nicholas Clifford)

The recently widowed Adela Gereth, a lover of beauty and passionate collector of fine objects, strikes up a friendship with the young Fleda Vetch, when both of them find themselves guests in the tasteless house of Brigstock family. Mrs. Gereth fears that her son Owen, an honorable but somewhat unimaginative young man, may take up with one of the Brigstock girls, and indeed he presently announces his engagement to Mona, the eldest daughter. That means that Mrs. Gereth will have to leave Poynton, the beautiful house that she and her husband filled with the furniture, china, tapestries, and other objects that they lovingly collected over the years. It is not so much possessiveness that drives Mrs. Gereth to want to maintain control over them (or so she claims, at any rate), but rather the sense that she will have failed if Mona, understanding and appreciating nothing of what Poynton contains, should become Owen's wife and take charge. The story and its developing conflicts are seen largely from the point of view of Fleda Vetch, the young woman who, her moral and aesthetic sensibilities tuned perhaps as finely as any of James's protagonists, finds herself caught in the middle. (Summary by Nicholas Clifford)

24Pragmatism

By William James

'Pragmatism' contains a series of public lectures held by William James in Boston 1906–7. James provides a popularizing outline of his view of philosophical pragmatism while making highly rhetorical and entertaining lashes towards rationalism and other competing schools of thought. James is especially concerned with the pragmatic view of truth. True beliefs should be defined as, according to James, beliefs that can successfully assist people in their everyday life. This is claimed to not be relativism. That reality exists is argued to be a fact true beyond the human subject. James argues, nevertheless, that people select which parts of reality are made relevant and how they are understood to relate to each other. Charles Sanders Peirce, widely considered to be the founder of pragmatism, eventually chose to separate himself intellectually from James, renaming his own theory to ‘pragmaticism’.

25Death of the Lion

By Henry James

This short novel is a black comedy about fame, manipulation, pretension, and surviving it all. The narrator, a reprehensible and seedy journalist, sets out to interview a minor author, and in his own quest for glory, turns the author into the celebrity of the day. The sudden and untimely death of the author, with his latest work unfinished, presents a troubling dilemma for the narrator, which he resolves with no more conscience than he had when he began his quest. (Introduction by Christine Dufour)