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GABRIELLA'S VOICE HEARD ACROSS THE USA! COMPANY PRESS RELEASE HOQUIAM, WA – 20 January 2002: Dead End Street® is pleased to announce author Michael J. Vaughn's cross-country promotional tour for his best-selling novel GABRIELLA'S VOICE. Vaughn's first signing takes place February 7th in Los Gatos, California's palatial Borders Books & Music with a grand culmination at 7 PM on March 25th at New York City's Metropolitan Opera Borders Books & Music (in the former Old Town Theatre). Accompanying Vaughn at each of his readings/signings will be notable soprano Barbara Divis as the two present a dialogue-aria point, counter-point performance. That is to say, Divis will join the author to perform excerpts from the novel - which centers on a charismatic, young soprano and her tragedy-plagued patron - and then will sing the book's classic arias with recorded orchestral accompaniment. "The spring tour includes stops in Tacoma, Washington, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Long Island, New York, in addition to the above-mentioned performances in Tacoma and New York City. Plus, Vaughn is set to perform at the Manhasset and Huntington Barnes & Noble stores on Long Island on March 19th (8 PM) and March 20th (7:30 PM), respectively." ABOUT GABRIELLA'S VOICE: Fifty-year-old Bill Harness is on a strange but seemingly benign journey, rambling across the country in an old Pontiac and anonymously leaving large checks with promising young opera singers. His fuel, however, is sorrow, and it isn't until he arrives on a small island outside of Seattle and befriends Gabriella Compton, a phenomenally talented soprano, that he is able to address the three great tragedies of his vocally gifted family. The book has had a remarkable run. In 1998, it won Vaughn a $3,000 novelist fellowship from Arts Council Silicon Valley. In 2000, it was published as an electronic book, whereby it earned nominations for both the Independent and Frankfurt ebook awards. In spring 2001, it was released in paperback and now has been picked up for international distribution. PRAISE FOR GABRIELLA'S VOICE: "Michael J. Vaughn has turned out a beautiful, lyrical novel.
I was held spellbound by the story. It is as captivating as a well-performed
La Boheme… as tragic and triumphant as Tosca." "Vaughn performs the virtuoso task of invoking sounds from
the silence of words on paper… arias whirl from the pages,
the eccentric rhythms of an anecdote resound as if they were recitative
from an opera. Vaughn's musical prose is a treat for the ear as
well as the mind." "A Kurosawa canvas of words. Tom Robbins without the self-conscious
hipness. Carl Hiassen with a meaning. The perfect pitch, flawless
timing and all-consuming passion of Luciano singing 'Nessun dorma.'
It has been a long, long while since I have been so totally enraptured." ABOUT MICHAEL J. VAUGHN: The author has worked as an opera and theater critic for the past fifteen years. His first novel, Frozen Music, was published in 1995, and his poetry has appeared in more than 40 literary journals. He lives in Tacoma, Washington, where he writes a book column for the Tacoma News-Tribune. ABOUT BARBARA DIVIS: The soprano was a Principal Artist with Opera San Jose from 1996 to 2000, though she has also performed with San Diego Opera, Nevada Opera and West Bay Opera. She is slated to perform Micaela in Opera Santa Barbara's Carmen this month, Violetta in Tacoma Opera's La Traviata in May 2002, and as a soloist with the Mexico City Symphony in July 2002. Divis holds a master's degree in music from the University of Houston, was a regional finalist in the Metropolitan Opera national auditions, and won First Place in Portland Opera's Ellen Faull Gordon Competition. PRAISE FOR BARBARA DIVIS: "Divis informed her portrayal with uncommon spunkiness and
delicacy." "Divis's top range is dazzling - something to lock in a safe
overnight, alongside the box-office receipts." "Divis was stunning." About the Company: Founded in 1997 by Ivan R. Black, John P. Rutledge and Fred M. Straughn, the company was originally named Dead End Street Publications, LLC. But, upon filing its servicemark with the United States Patent & Trademark Office, the company changed its name to Dead End StreetSM to maximize the value of its servicemark. It has grown from a pioneer in the electronic publishing industry to an integrated publishing and motion picture production company with an extremely strong business model and intellectual property foundation. Its stable contains authors have print publishing credits that include Random House, Dell, Simon & Schuster and Greenwood/Praeger. Investment inquiries should be directed to John P. Rutledge at: jrutledge@deadendstreet.com |
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