Composers Specials Series-In a kitchen in Italy in 1862 little Reliana helps her grandmother Rosalie make pasta sauce. As stream swirls magically through the kitchen Rosalie argues with her oldest friend Martina and tells the story of an opera composerthey once both knew.Soon Reliana finds herself transported through time back to a theatre in Rome nearly 50 years earlier. She is invisible to ev…

Composers Specials Series-It is 1742 and we are in Dublin where ten-year-old Jamie OFlaherty and the brilliant composer George Frideric Handel live. Jamie who comes from a very poor family has been caught stealing and is in jail. Handel whose careeris failing needs hisnewest composition to be a big hit. By a stroke of destiny the young boy and the composer become unlikely allies. Handel gets…

Composers Specials Series-Twelve-year-old Michelle Marin doesnt like her piano teacher. Monsieur Bizet is irritable forgetful aloof – distracted by a failing marriage and the rigors of composing his new opera. But as the composer begins to tellMichelle the story ofthe gypsy Carmen her imagination is captured. For just as in Bizets opera her soldier father is stationed in Seville...and s…

Composers Specials Series-Rich and successful a dashing young musical superstar so adored that women faint when they meet him in the street Franz Liszt is restless. He knows that something is missing in his glamorous life as the worlds greatest concertpianists. He meetsJosy a naturally gifted young Gypsy street musician and subsequently wagers that he can turn Josy into a world-class musician.…