Musicmaking!

God's Musical Creation

In a world of constant, often harsh and objectionable sound, a musical race of beings exists, whose heart beats in rhythm, and whose soul rises in response to harmony.  They are human.  Lives framed by difficulty and challenge, they retreat and rest in music.  Do you want proof?

 

I am currently NOT teaching piano, without specific plans as to when and if I will begin to teach at some time in the future.  That does NOT mean that I've turned my back on music, or its incredible value.  Please enjoy this video, and consider how YOU can contribute to the life and peace of the human souls that surround you, with music.

the Sound of Potential

look Ma, 4 hands!

On My Way

VIDEO AT VIMEO

I rise in the morning and I greet the world.
I am here!
The sun has risen, but barely.
In the pale light
I see a world of many paths.
Partly hidden by trees
And shadows of trees.

Someday I will choose a path and go.
I hear the voices of naysayers – You can’t!
I hear the voices of doomsayers – Danger!
And I am afraid.
Under what tree lie the roots that will trip me?
In which shadows hide the holes that will swallow me?

Through the din of the naysayers and the doomsayers,
I hear the chanting of people who love me.
If you fall you will rise again and greet the world.
I breathe their words into my soul.
I feel the strength of my spirit.
If I fall I will rise again.
The sun is at midmorning.
The time to prepare is now.

I choose to choose the path that I will take.
I listen to my heart beating my rhythm.
I take my stance.
I make my move.
I am here.
I live.
I rise.
I fly –

Are you Musical, or simply playing an instrument?

I watched a TED video recently that just astounded me on many levels.  The speaker was a deaf lady who is also a percussionist/musician, who very clearly illustrated what it means to translate, or read, music, and how tremendously different that is from musical interpretation.  So many students want to know how to read music, to be able to translate everything on the written page onto their chosen instrument, yet to settle for reading, or translating, music, is to miss the musical boat ENTIRELY!  This half hour long video is quite amazing, and worth getting a cuppa something and sitting in front of your computer and relaxing while it plays.

 

Listening to music is much more than soundwaves hitting our eardrums.  Making music is much more than translating the languages written on the page onto the keys of a piano.  In the same way that knowing another person is much more than seeing them, their clothing, their facial expressions, and making a determination about them.