STONES is a novel simultaneously serious and comic. It takes place in one day as its protagonist, Jack Berke, accompanies his aged mother Rachel to visit the family graves in Brooklyn, Queens, and further out on Long Island. As Jack negotiates the congested expressways from cemetery to cemetery, he contemplates the tombstones, the lives of family members who lie under them, the stones that, according to Jewish custom, he places on those tombstones, and the stone that has for a lifetime resided in his own heart.

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Fillmore composed a total of fifteen band pieces featuring trombones - popularly known as trombone smears - between 1908 to 1929. Miss Trombone, subtitled "A Slippery Rag" was the first of the series. Written in the ragtime style so popular at the time, the trombone smears (glissandi) give the work a humorous charcter in keeping with the circus performances it was composed for. The new Serenissima Band Classics series is designed to offer band directors and others interested in this genre newly engraved authoritative editions which are prepared from the primary sources using the...

Fillmore composed a total of fifteen band pieces featuring trombones - popularly known as trombone smears - between 1908 to 1929. Composed in 1911, Teddy Trombone was second in the series, which was launched three years before with Miss Trombone. Written in the ragtime style so popular at the time, the trombone smears (glissandi) give the work a humorous charcter in keeping with the circus performances it was composed for. The new Serenissima Band Classics series is designed to offer band directors and others interested in this genre newly engraved authoritative editions which are...

Of Fillmores fifteen band pieces featuring trombones - popularly known as trombone smears - Lassus Trombone is easily the most famous, though it was neither first or last in the series, which occupied their composer from 1908 to 1929. Along with the featured trombone glissandi (smears), the work has a distinctly ragtime character. Fillmore was a circus band composer, and slapstick aspect of the trombone smears were the perfect accompaniment to the antics of the clowns. The new Serenissima Band Classics series is designed to offer band directors and others interested in this genre newly...

Troopers Tribunal, a classic circus march, is one of the very earliest items from Fillmore. The title actually is a pun for "troupers" - as in a circus troupe. Fillmore joined a circus as bandmaster after his graduation from the Cincinnati Conservatory and used "troopers" to hide the circus association from his disapproving father. The new Serenissima Band Classics series is designed to offer band directors and others interested in this genre newly engraved authoritative editions which are prepared from the primary sources using the composers original instrumentaion, which is sometimes...

Fillmore composed a total of fifteen band pieces featuring trombones - popularly known as trombone smears - between 1908 to 1929. Slim Trombone, from 1918, was sixth in the series. Written in the ragtime style so popular at the time, the trombone smears (glissandi) give the work a humorous charcter in keeping with the circus performances it was composed for. The new Serenissima Band Classics series is designed to offer band directors and others interested in this genre newly engraved authoritative editions which are prepared from the primary sources using the composers original...