Despite piercing differences, brothers Nino, an attorney, and Nicky, a gangster, struggle to maintain a relationship through court cases, prison terms, female entanglements, political campaigns and gun battles as the Old World heritage of their youth deteriorates around them.

Francisco Correa de Arauxo: how little does the name evoke for most musicians? Yet, this composer wrote music equal in interest and beauty to that of such better-known composers of his time as Bull, Titelouze, Gibbons, Sweelinck, and Frescobaldi. Unfortunately, Correa's music was published in a notation which, though excellent, was little-known beyond Spain. Only within the last twenty years has a complete -though regrettably deficient - edition of Correa's music become available. Cabezon, Correa de Arauxo's most significant immediate predecessor on the Hispanic musical scene (at least among...