Summary: A story of music, magic and wonder. Notes: (See the end of the work for notes.) Chapter 1: First Show Chapter Text The night was warm but a cool breeze blew in over the rainbow-hued waters of the Adriatic as sunset broke across the sky. There was a motion to the entire landscape that made the world look as alive as a Van Gogh painting, and I absorbed it with every particle of my spirit. I felt united with the energy around me, with the sky, sea and ground, despite the sounds I was hearing.I wish I could say that the music being performed in front of me deserved the crystal brilliance that it was surrounded by, but I couldn’t. Somehow the four musicians onstage just didn’t have that star quality I’d come to expect. I couldn’t remember their name; for me, they weren’t worth remember