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Tell Me Press Author, Brian H. Peterson provides inspiration: Da Capo Chamber Players  Naumburg Composition Winner Stephen Jaffe’s Composition, Light Dances (Chamber Concerto No. 2) takes its title from a phrase in Brian's book, The Smile at the Heart of Things, "my whole creative life is a dance around the light." Light Dances is a three-movement chamber concerto composed in 2009-10. The work will be performed Wednesday May 2 at 8 PM  in the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. For more info: CLICK HERE
Laughter is the Best Medicine. Tell Me Press Author Carla Ulbrich will be featured nationally on ABC-TV Thursday, May 3rd 2pm. Carla is on for a few minutes near the beginning of The Revolution at 2pm EST. Carla talks about the benefits of humor and sings a snippet of one of her songs. Also on the show - MD and funny man Matt Iseman, Ty Pennington, Cheryl Hines. CLICK HERE
Tell Me Press Author, Carla "The Singing Patient" Ulbrich will be the featured Speaker at Toastmasters District 83 Spring Conference. Carla presents the workshop “Laughter: The Best Medicine” at Toastmasters International District 83 Annual Spring Conference, Saturday, May 5 at the Morristown Hyatt, 3 Speedwell Ave., Morristown, NJ 07960. CLICK HERE
Singing in the library: Cheshire Public Library, Cheshire, CT May 10th, 7PM. Singer, songwriter, comedienne & Tell Me Press author Carla Ulbrich will perform, talk about her book How Can You NOT Laugh at a Time Like This?, sign and sell copies. For more info:CLICK HERE
Tell Me Press is proud to announce the release of the Teacher's/Reader's Guide for Tonya Trimble's wonderful book for children, CURIOSITY WITH A CAPITAL S. The Teacher's/Reader's Guide is available here and it's free. CLICK HERE

Carla's monthly newsletter is a hoot and contains a lot of useful information about how to get a free book, her live appearances, both book related and music related. Click the link below to read her MAY 2012 newsletter. CLICK HERE
Brian H. Peterson's book, THE BLOSSOMING OF THE WORLD: ESSAYS AND IMAGES, published by Tell Me Press, is named one of Library Journals 7 Best Books of 2011 in the Spiritual Living category. CLICK HERE
NEW! A very informative VIDEO on the role of the Anesthesiologist from Tell Me Press author Panchali Dhar, M.D. Dr. Dhar's book, Before the Scalpel: What Everyone Should Know About Anesthesia, is a must-have for every bookshelf. CLICK HERE
VIDEO: Take a moment for a Carla Ulbrich - Top 10 annoying things to say to someone who has just been diagnosed CLICK HERE

Tell Me Press scores a coup with illustrator Ted Enik. Ted is best known for his illustrations in popular children's books such as Eloise, Magic School Bus, and Fancy Nancy. The whimsical work of this talented artist is featured in Curiosity with a Capital S by Tonya Trimble.
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An artist, curator, critic and arts administrator with more than 25 years experience, Brian H. Peterson is the Gerry and Marguerite Lenfest Chief Curator at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Also a critically-acclaimed author, his scholarly publications include Pennsylvania Impressionism (2002), The Cities, the Towns, the Crowds: The Paintings of Robert Spencer (2004), and Form Radiating Life: The Paintings of Charles Rosen (2006), all co-published by the Michener Art Museum and the University of Pennsylvania Press. USA Today praised Peterson‘s “luminous essays” in his stirring memoir, The Smile at the Heart of Things: Essays and Life Stories (2010, co-published by the Michener Art Museum and Tell Me Press).

Peterson picks up both pen and camera in his latest book, The Blossoming of the World: Essays and Images, releasing July 2011 from Tell Me Press.

Brian H. Peterson has had more than 30 solo exhibitions at galleries and museums throughout the country since 1980. His work is in the collections of the Amon Carter Museum, the Denver Art Museum, the Library of Congress, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the State Museum of Pennsylvania and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. He attended the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Delaware, receiving from them respectively a BA (in music composition) and an MFA (in photography).

Growing up, Peterson and his family followed his father‘s career as a petroleum geologist for Shell Oil Company, living in Casper, Wyoming; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Farmington, New Mexico before settling in Missoula, Montana when his father joined the faculty of the University of Montana. His mother was an elementary school teacher for 25 years. The aspiring artist moved to Philadelphia in 1974 to study at Penn‘s distinguished school of music. His wife, Helen Mirkil, is a painter, poet, and arts professional; together they are co-owners of Water Gallery in Lansdale, Pennsylvania.

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ARTIST, CURATOR CONFRONTS LIFE'S CONTRADICTIONS IN NEW BOOK The Blossoming of the World features stunning photos and luminous prose
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Quotes

“The Smile at the Heart of Things is a luminous

book. It’s open, quirky, vulnerable, wise. It rings true.”

—Dennis Lee, poet and essayist; poet laureate of Toronto, 2001–2004

“Peterson has an incredible way of encapsulating

his life experience in powerful and imaginative prose (tinged with a kind of poetry). At times I feel an almost Proustian sense of ‘lost time.’”

—George Crumb, Pulitzer Prize–winning composer

“The Smile at the Heart of Things is a very

personal and touching book that is deeply and heart-searchingly important. The stories from life are a true treasure.”

—Emmet Gowin, distinguished American photographer, Professor of Photography, Princeton University

“In a day, I devoured Brian Peterson’s lovely

memoir on art and artists, life, love and marriage, work, museums, human strength, habits-of-mind, diminishment and death. Now nothing in the house is worth reading or watching or even doing, so ardent and tender and enduring are his stories.”

—Mary E. Case, founding director, Qm2; former director, Office of the Registrar, Smithsonian Institution