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Cincinnati, March 1970 Augusta McKee-professor, voice teacher, and opera director at the Conservatory-is realizing a lifelong dream as she directs a production of Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann in Cincinnati's…
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1953 -- One magical summer in a small town in Tennessee, lovely teenager KRISSY PORTER meets a visitor from New York, ELI LEVIN, a young piano prodigy born with a…
"A TREMENDOUS PIECE OF WORK THAT RESONATES IN MANY DIFFERENT WAYS--IN PARTICULAR THE WAY MUSIC AFFECTS US AS NOTHING ELSE DOES." -- A READER Lindsey Cameron, a gifted young soprano…
Paris-Cincinnati, June 1965:
Augusta McKee, former opera singer and professor of music for two Cincinnati colleges, is enjoying her idyllic European honeymoon with Homicide Detective Malcolm Mitchell–until the day a…
Pocono Mountains, June, 1966
Augusta McKee, amateur sleuth, professor of music, and former opera singer, is invited to perform in the musical Carousel at the Pocono Playhouse in Northeastern Pennsylvania…
Cincinnati, August 1966 - After an eventful Beatles concert at Crosley Field, threatening (and badly-spelled) ransom notes begin appearing from unknown persons claiming to have kidnapped George Harrison. But the…
Cincinnati, October 1967 -- Eugene Geller, the handsome and popular Cantor of Rockdale Temple-located in the racially tense Avondale neighborhood of Cincinnati-disappears without a trace during a night of rioting…