Butlin, Ron. "Vivaldi Learns a New Skill".

Notes

- playful magic realism

- set in Venice where the composer Vivaldi is always late for rehearsals and there is rumour about the now old man and the two sisters who care for him

- the young girl Bianca teaches him how to walk upon water by telling him to focus his anger on something which will make him fly forward upon the water surface

- Vivaldi learns that Stravinsky dismissed his 500 concertos as the same concerto 500 times and this becomes the effective focus for his anger