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Home News and events About me Biography, background, press, and tidbits both musical and nonmusical My musicals Five shows I've written, including one that ran Off-Broadway in 2006 and one currently in development The Chagall Suite A commissioned 8-movement piano piece inspired by Marc Chagall's artworks, and a tribute to Chagall and Elvis Listen Hear my music on this site and buy my recordings Musical direction See my ideas regarding musical direction, see my resume, or let me coach you for auditions and give you accompaniment tracks to practice with Transcription services Send me a recording to create sheet music from, or have me transpose or arrange a song or instrumental work Travelogues Read accounts of my long-term trips and my experience on the Fosse tour Mailing list Subscribe to receive news and travelogues | Trip 4 -- Middle South America25 October 2000 to 28 November 2000It is difficult to cover all of South America in a month, especially when the five places you most want to go are at five geographical extremes of the continent. Realizing that it would be foolish to try to take in Machu Picchu, the Tierra del Fuego, the Amazon, the Iguaçu Falls, and Salvador da Bahia - especially traveling by land - in less than five weeks, I decided to put the focus on the central regions. I balked at the idea of a trip with no train rides (except for the hokey tourist train from Machu Picchu), but I was surprised by the comfort, speed, and - with one exception - reliability of the buses. And on this trip I could speak the language virtually everywhere: All that high-school Spanish came back to me, and it wasn't too much of a stretch to be able to read a little Portuguese.
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