The Ibbur's Tale

About Lenny Cavallaro Cavallaro, Lenny: - Lenny Cavallaro is a “Renaissance man” steeped in the classics: Greek tragedy, Shakespearean drama, and classical music. He has also boxed, earned a third-degree black belt in karate, run marathons, won chess tournaments, and practiced hypnosis and reiki professionally. Cavallaro’s earlier fiction includes Trojan Dialogues: The Memoirs of Diomedes and The Greatest Champion Who Never Was. His interests in Shakespeare and Sophocles spawned Two Oedipal Plays—the one-act Hamlet, Revisited and Odysseus Acanthoplex, a restoration of fragments by the great Greek tragedian. In 2022, White Bird Publications released the first two volumes of what was then called The Passion of Elena Bianchi, and (following the publisher’s demise) the author uploaded the last pair. However, the series is now restructured as A Musical Romance, a trilogy. Later in 2022, Russell Enterprises presented Sherlock Holmes and the Mysteries of the Chess World. These were followed by a Jewish-paranormal novella, The Ibbur’s Tale. Cavallaro then “edited and revised” Paganini Agitato, a novel by Ann Abelson, which was released by Fomite Press in 2023. Simone: A Sequel to The Story of the Eye followed in 2024, and A Musical Romance, Volume One was released in 2025. An accomplished pianist and composer, Cavallaro performed Bach’s Six Partitas to the highest critical acclaim in Carnegie Recital Hall and achieved even more recognition as a composer. His works for English horn, released by Forton Music, have been very well received, and he has also written a conjectural "completion" of Contrapunctus XIV from Bach's unfinished masterpiece, The Art of the Fugue. Cavallaro earned a D.M.A. (Doctor of Musical Arts) from West Virginia University and has served on the faculties of a number of colleges in English, music, or both. At present, he is an adjunct professor of English at Wentworth Institute of Technology (Boston), where he teaches literature.