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World Fantasy Award winning author S. P. Somtow has written a book for "children" of all ages - a book about the symphony orchestra, reimagined as a band of dinosaurs. Pithy, outrageous poetry and humorous illustrations come together in a book originally created to go along with a musical fantasy to be performed by a symphony orchestra. For precocious kids and nostalgic adults alike, Dinosaur Symphony is fun for the whole family.

It's a daring adventure, a breathtaking leap of ambition, an amazing "gift to the world" from a small country that may seem to some to be far from the world's operatic center.It's a new way to bring to news audiences the most iconic stories of Theravada Buddhism, told and retold for thousands of years, in the language of music, singing, drama, and dance, a language that belongs to every culture in the world - yet the particular dialect of this language is equal parts Asia and Europe.Halfway through this journey, let's take a moment to look at all that has already been achieved.Five linked works of music drama - from the oratorio-like Mahajanaka to the intimate chamber opera The Silent Prince, from the childlike simplicity of The Faithful Son to the convoluted machinations of The Dragon Lord, to the cosmic allegory of Chariot of Heaven.There has been a hiatus for almost two years, but now it's time for final five music dramas to emerge, and 2019 will see premieres of two of them: the short ballet Chandakumar and the magically complex Architect of Dreams.

Dragon's Fin Soup Eight Modern Siamese Fables in the tradition of the Marx Brothers Eight Rowdy Tales where East and West don't meet-they collide Eight Frightening Ruminations where nothing is as it seems, and even the unreal is an illusion Eight Delectable Servings That could only have sprung from the fevered mind of . . . S. P. Somtow The most unique writer of this, or any other, millennium. "One of the most gifted masters of colour and spectacle." Theodore Sturgeon. S. P. Somtow is the J. D. Salinger of Siam." George Axelrod.

Commissioned by the government of Thailand as a memorial to the victims ofthe 9/11 tragedy, Somtow Sucharitkul's Requiem takes its inspiration from thewords of great American poets: T.S. Eliot, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson.Tom Mintier of CNN called in "a moving work"in a feature that aired on theanniversary of the tragedy. Set for soprano, large chorus and orchestra, the three-movement work is a triptych on the themes of Devastation, Mourning, andHope.This is a study score that contains the entire orchestral and vocal music of the Requiem in a convenient and readable A4 size.