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FAVORITES
- MUSIC
One
personal quirk is that I must always have music in the
background when I'm writing. And each piece of music
in some way relates to the story.
For
instance, The Rich Shall
Inherit is set partly in Venice and the culmination
is a terrific chase scene with the killer stalking our
heroine through the fog-shrouded alleys and canals.
It's Carnival time and everyone is in disguise and wearing
strange and sinister masks. I knew that Vivaldi had
composed in Venice and of course the Four Seasons is
one of his most famous and popular works. I must tell
you though, that if you haven't heard Anne
Sophie Mutter's version of The Four Seasons
you haven't heard 'chase' music. It sends thrills down
your spine.
But
this wasn't the version I played when I was writing:
that was by Academy
of St.Martin in the Fields, conducted
by Sir Neville Marriner.
It's
quite different but equally as thrilling. Try reading
these exciting chapters of The Rich Shall Inherit
to the background of this music.
For
Now or Never it was
Neil Young's haunting Harvest
Moon album.
For
the Irish setting of Legacy
of Secrets it was my favorite Van Morrison
album, Avalon
Sunset,
and
the raucous, sensational Pogues.
Music
is always an inspiration, and finding just the right
album makes certain scenes come alive for me.
'PARIS'
(to be published summer of 2001) was written to a combination
of the great jazz pianist Bill Evans' At
Town Hall (with Symphony Orchestra).Bill Evans
plucks notes from the air as lightly as snowflakes and
embeds them in your soul. And to Dexter Gordon's
version of Thelonious Monk's Round
Midnight, soft, smooth, sexy.
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