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A First-Time Visitor’s Guide to this Web Site

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| First Timer Visitors

This page page highlights the articles that I think you’d like to read first, since new visitors overwhelmed with the amount of information posted on this web site. Some provide simple entertainment – stories, jokes biographical and semi-biographical musings – while others reflect the impact Pat and Stephanie had on peoples’ lives.

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Notification Option Added (Opt-In)

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I’ve just added an option to this web site that allows you to receive e-mail whenever I add something to the site. To use this feature, look to the right for “New Post Notifications” just below the Select Language and Search … options. Enter your e-mail address. then click the “Receive Notifications” button.

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Recurring Dream

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| Musings, Stephanie

Patrick reflects on a recurring dream about a house in West Virginia and an old woman with a big book.

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Suzanne Bradbury in Concert on 18 May 2025

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| Music

Patrick and Stephanie’s dear friend Suzanne Bradbury will be performing in Soller with Ursula Pomar on 18 May 2025. If you are on Mallorca, hopefully you can attend this concert. It sounds like a wonderful program.

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Eulogy for My Brother Jim

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| Eulogies

This is the eulogy I wrote for my brother Jim (no relation to Patrick). Jim’s life was so very different from Patrick’s. It provides an interesting contrast in the influences I faced growing up.

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New CD Announced on Avie Label

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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Album Released 1 Aug 2025

More of Patrick’s efforts are making it to disc with the release of several works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor on the Avie label, recorded by the National Philharmonic conducted by Michael Repper and featuring violinist Curtis Stewart.
This post explains how it all came about.

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Stanley Street

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| Autobiographical

Here’s an autobiographic segment about Patrick’s childhood neighborhood in Florida interspersed with flashbacks to less distant times. There are some moments of graphic language.

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June Bug

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| Autobiographical, Patrick's Family

Patrick describes a trip to visit cousins when he was almost eleven, and concludes with a list a topics that were other West Virginia stories he wanted to write.

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Havana

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| Autobiographical, Patrick

This story paints, in very broad strokes, Patrick’s take on meeting my mom, getting married, and becoming a parent. Although Patrick titled this piece Havana, that Cuban city is referenced only in passing.

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Eight Years

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| Reflections

A few thoughts about the eighth anniversary of Patrick’s death.

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Happy 90th Birthday

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| Patrick, Recordings

Here’s a 2011 recording from Spain in honor of today, what would have been Patrick’s 90th birthday.

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Complicated People

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| Patrick, Recordings

Recording with Patrick and Christine about complicated people.

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Church Music

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| Patrick

Since today is a religious holiday for a lot of people, I thought I would relate this story that Patrick told me. In the little town of Deya, there is a church up on top of the hill. Patrick played the Sunday music for a couple of years there. He explained that the priest finally […]

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Twenty Years Ago Today

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| E-mail to Family

We offered to help Patrick while Stephanie was in the hospital. This was his response.

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The Pleasure of Working with Patrick

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| Music Programs

Imagine if you have to proof-read not just in one dimension horizontally, as you do with text, but in two, as you have to with a musical score, especially an orchestral one with maybe forty staves in the vertical dimension. It was this challenge that brought Patrick and me together.

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My Mom Died

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| Patrick's Family

Patrick’s first wife Donna passed away early Saturday morning on the 14th of October 2023.

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Revisiting Patrick’s Memorial Concert

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| Music Programs, Video

Thinking again about Patrick’s memorial concert, and a link to the Libertango that Misha’s orchestra performed that night.

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