tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42916680569043246322024-03-15T18:09:53.406-07:00gamble music production and archivesGamble Music Production and Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02799870535857174447noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4291668056904324632.post-24361781879565280682020-12-18T18:08:00.004-08:002022-11-17T18:31:37.797-08:00Larry Holder: first friend, then family then composer of the NEW CHRISTMAS SONG FOR NOW and the 21st Century <p><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Most of you know that my son David was married to Lindsay Holder in June of 2020</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">,</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> but I don't think I've told you of how I met Lindsay's parents. I was supposed to go down to NOLA a few days before the wedding</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">,</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and David's Mom and I </span><span class="NormalTextRun AdvancedProofingIssueV2 SCXW85214347 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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"); background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">was in charge of</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> doing a breakfast for the bridal party and parents one morning</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">,</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> and the bride's parents were to do the same thing but another morning. They were up first. I entered the door and met Rebecca (Lindsay's Mom)</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">, a </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">precious woman</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">,</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and then I met one of the best friends anyone could ever ask for; Larry Holder (Lindsay's Dad) and I started talking about, what </span><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2 SCXW85214347 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">?,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> M</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">usic.</span><span class="EOP SCXW85214347 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; 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font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> as we seemed to hit it off as friends.</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> in that he is modest to say the least. He doesn't brag on his </span><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2 SCXW85214347 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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"); background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">accomplishments, but</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> should. You see</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">,</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> the story you are about to read is a little of his life story and his involvement </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">with</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> the Christmas season.</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; 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He took piano lessons from his </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">m</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">other and remembers very clearly singing as a family to </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">songs from</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> The Sound of Music; his Mom would play </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">the piano </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">and the other 4 siblings would sing, </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">very much</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> like the Von Trapp family. 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His </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">first musical </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">idol was Glen Campbell</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">singing Christmas songs with the guitar</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">, </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">lighting the candles of the </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">advent wreath, </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">and reading B</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">ible verses of the Christmas story.</span><span class="EOP SCXW85214347 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW85214347 BCX0" paraeid="{b820def4-a64b-488a-a3fd-0aa38814714a}{79}" paraid="165788257" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">His older sister taught Larry </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">how to finger pick on the guitar, instead of just strumming, something she learned at a summer camp</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">. </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">In the early years, </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Larry </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">only played guitar at</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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It would not be until in the 9th grade </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">when</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">, while in Memphis, he </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">joined his first band, Stainless Steel, followed by a second band, Mirage, which lasted through his freshman year of college</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">. In college </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">he joined a</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> Christian band</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">, “Rejoyce”,</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> and </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">today he continues to play bass in the worship band at First Baptist Church in Martin, Tennessee</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">There is a LOT of info left out of </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">this </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">story, but we skip </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">ahead to </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">playing </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; 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font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">The University of Tennessee at Martin, where he has worked for over 3 decades</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">. </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Larry explains that there are really two things that you leave as a legacy of your life: </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">2) </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">what you produce that has lasting value, which in his case are the songs he has written and recorded</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">. He has </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">self-produced</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> two </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> and </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">“</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Til Pondering Turns to Praise</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">”.</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">On the second album, his daughter Heather plays the flute on “More Than a Child”</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">. Since 1997</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">,</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> Larry has been </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">sharing his music on the Internet, where it has been found and used all around the world. In particular, </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">"More Than a Child" </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">has been sung and recorded by many individuals as groups, possibly because,</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> like Franz Gruber's "Silent Night"</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">, the song is a simple </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">yet genuine expression of the Lord coming to earth. </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">One day it may well become </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">that earworm song that will enrich anyone's Christmas. 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">the chronological stepping of one man growing up </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">writing</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> beautiful music</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">,</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> but </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">then writing</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> a milestone song in "More Than a Child".</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">The song suggests something very simple</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">,</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> and it is. Larry intended for the song to be played with guitar and flute,</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">simple and ear catching. 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I believe it should have already become that big, </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">as </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">it is wonderful and a joyous earworm song.</span><span class="EOP SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":240}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW85214347 BCX0" paraeid="{c9d3caf4-58d6-4b7c-a1d1-6d292682a6cd}{28}" paraid="1689469182" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Larry has </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">also </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">collaborated with Rick Founds (Lord I Lift Your Name on High) </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">and other songwriters.</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> The songs that are written have only begun to </span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">offer this messed up world a bright</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">light to follow in the sky. He is a wise man</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">,</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> seeking after God's heart</span><span class="TextRun SCXW85214347 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont", "Times New Roman_MSFontService", serif; 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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">OK, I am taking you on a trip into Columbia into mid 1940
perhaps as soon as 1938. Imagine waking
up at 6 AM one Sunday morning and hearing Amazing Grace pealed by chimes, or at
noon or even at 5 PM ? That is most likely, what happened during the time Columbia
had chimes playing downtown. There are different stories as to whom played
them, when they were played (time frame) and from what sight they were played
in Columbia. Yes, there were bells at
the Columbia First Baptist Church, but these in particular are the ones that
would have been played downtown and pealed down from the old water tower, close
to where the new water tower is now. It
is still questionable as to whom played the carillon because so much history is
disappearing; perhaps someone can shed more light on this mystery. I believe the best candidate would have been
Mrs. Mary Hope Bryan, Mrs. Noncie Roberts Campbell, Callie Leach French ….. my
mind wondered with musicians in Columbia that could have tackled this task, but
the timeline was not working out. Later in this story you’ll find out that
Captain Callie French whom played calliope, could not have played the Columbia Carillon because she passed away (1935) before the carillon was built.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know after speaking to David Hunter that the carillon was
donated by Wallace Davis Malone Sr. in honor of his wife’s birthday, I have
contacted the Malone family on Facebook but have not gotten an answer back from
them yet, as to the history that led up to the gift being given to the Town of
Columbia; that should be a story within itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The best part of the history of the Columbia carillon is finding out,
and knowing that the keyboard was in a place that needed protected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Knowing that” I love to research anything
that makes or plays music, I knew that this needed research. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I called the Schulmerich (pronounced as: shoe
– lmer-rick) Company located in Sellersville, PA (about 35 miles Northwest of
Philadelphia). Nancy Morgan answered. She is so pleasant to speak to it’s
really unbelievable that she’d take time with my endeavor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She asked me to be patient and she’d find out
the information about the Columbia Carillon and give an answer returned to me
within a timely manner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She asked me to
send pictures I took of it, especially the model and serial number tag and get
would get with other veterans, including herself whom had been there 41
years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>About a week went by and I got a
surprisingly satisfying phone call from Nancy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As you know, she told me that the carillon was
built in around 1938-1940 but also that during that time that it was built that
the Schulmerich Company started a campaign to load up demo units in cars and
send their salesmen on the road.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Schulmerich Company does not log in the Columbia Carillon serial number to show
when it was sold or whom bought it, at this point we are only to guess. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I can only guess at this point that somehow Mr. Malone heard
about this amazing object that played chimes and wanted one for the town of
Columbia. That is very obvious but it is intriguing to guess why Mr. Malone
wanted to buy it as a gift for his wife. Perhaps someone can shed light on
that. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I call everyone I can think of for almost 3 weeks and finally I was asked did you call Adair Gilbert? I knew she is a brilliant teacher of
Economics, a great spokesperson, historian but what she told me brought tears
of joy to this musicologist’s eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
asked her could she help me, in finding whom played the carillon for Columbia,
she chuckled and said “that’s easy”, my Mother did. "WOW". <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Clarkie Margaret Hammond, we all know her better as Mrs.
Whatley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She, was not only an English
teacher, and a great one at that but every day at 5pm, Mrs. Whatley would play
the Columbia Carillon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mrs. Whatley
played it from 1944 to 1954 (10 years !!!! another "WOW" moment), she had to give up
playing when she started teaching school at Houston County High School full
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found it very interesting that
Mrs. Clarkie was a music major and played violin like a true virtuoso. I
understand that her Mother Mrs. Lillian McNair Hammond took her different
places including but not limited to Montgomery for music lessons. Also, as she
continued to play and become expert at violin, she was asked to play several
places here in Columbia, especially special events and several weddings at the
Methodist Church in Columbia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mrs.
Clarkie Margaret attended Montevallo when then it was an all-girls college. Adair will shed some more light on this subject matter about her Mom and it will be posted here....<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is possible that Noncie Campbell Oakley –
played the carillon too, Jimmy her son told GMP that he didn’t remember her
playing downtown but that she did play piano and she was very good at it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mrs. Noncie attended Judson College then moved
to Columbia from Panama City in 1955, almost the time that Mrs. Whatley started
teaching, it is possible then that since Mrs. Whatley and Mrs. Noncie were best
of friends that in talking that Mrs. Noncie played it as well. Mrs. Whatley
lived just down from the Community House (Later the Rosie Purcell Library), and
Mrs. Noncie lived in downtown Columbia too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mrs. Noncie was the secretary of First Baptist Church for many
years she also loved children and loved to entertain them with music.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Jimmy said that his Mom learned children's songs and played those songs for young people anytime the opportunity presented itself. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After researching more and more,
I found out that "my remembering" is not that bad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought I’d remember hearing my grandmother
Edna Earl say that Mary Hope Bryan played the chimes at one time, but after speaking to
Kenneth Bryan, found out "that" might not be so true. Then after further research
on Mrs. Mary Hope Bryan, learned that she did play the Columbia Carillon. Not often but she did
play it, when it worked. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I found out since the speakers were on the water
tower it was a haven for lighting and that it was struck (almost like Back to
the Future motion picture), and the wires heading to the carillon burned it up.
The tubes were replaced and it was replaced, all to have it struck again many
months later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My guess is that it was
never played again because of damaged parts not getting repaired.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mary Hope having played at First Baptist
Church in Columbia was needed and therefore she along with age, stopped
playing, but played every once in a while, when they would get the carillon
repaired.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found it very interesting
that my source (I will not name him “John Beasley”), said that the chimes were
set on a time clock, and like our alarm clocks of today it too, rang every hour
on the hour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chiming 1 time for 1
o’clock, 2 times for 2 o’clock and so on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>John has no idea how thankful I am to him for tying the story up for me,
I am to him very indebted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> After speaking to Nancy
Morgan and finding out how helpful she was she told me that the carillon chimes
are still being built today and that the chimes peals have not changed that
much. So I offer in this research a video of four types of chime peals that may
have sounded like the ones in Columbia, especially the English Bells played
here in this video. These chimes are at the top of this research post and again the ENGLISH CHIMES are as close to what Columbia had as any other sound per Nancy. </span><span style="font-family: "Corbel",sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Gamble Music Production and Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02799870535857174447noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4291668056904324632.post-73701933539514146772018-09-30T15:32:00.000-07:002018-09-30T15:37:57.934-07:00NEW ORLEANS AUG 13th 2018<h2>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><i><b>Every time I come to New Orleans just outside the city about 50 miles I sense a comfort of almost seeing my son AND tune in to WWOZ or Sirus XM Bluesville and tune in some oldies of blues. Delta, Mississippi, Chi-town, makes no difference to me, it does to some people but makes no difference to me what KIND OF BLUES. So I arrive early morning in NOLA; as I got up at 3:30 AM to leave for NOLA, arrive around 10:00 AM. Ate a early lunch at Oragomi (best sushi in NOLA). After which headed back to David's to watch BBC Cooking show and hang out with my buddy as I have not seen him in a while. Before we knew it dinner time had arrived, we ate at Theo's the pesto pizza was better than that with NO SAUCE. Heard some blues and Jazz earlier and got my fix and was ready to go to bed.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Aug 14th up and ate breakfast at Pontilly Cafe' (no lachae (no milk),on to the WWII museum. Parked in the WWII museum parking deck. Beyond all Boundaries, excellent but sobering very overwhelming and very sobering. NO WONDER I LOVE MUSIC so very much, it was the only comforting thing in the war. Other than letters home to wish soldiers back in the worst war in history, music was the only glue that kept folks at home and soldiers thousands of miles away together. Once finished at the museum. David went to a b-day party and I went back down to Frenchman street to hear some music. I got another night of music blues and jazz wondering up and down the one side of the French Quarter. </span></b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Aug 15th, David and I went on the TROLLEY RIDE for most of the day. Started at Pontilly Cafe' then onto the French Market where Jon Gillume, we could not find him but Donald Williams....blah blah</span></b></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><i><b>Then parked the car on Canal street and took the trolley to the French Market but then UP and DOWN St. Charles street. So the driver of the street car was the uncle of J. Letti. </b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Aug 16th picked David up to go to Edgewater Baptist Church, today sad news at Edgewater, Chad Gilbert will be moving to Saint Charles to be assoc pastor at Trinity Baptist Church. On to Subway after for lunch, then to nap one hour and change, went back to David's to hang out and watch the exciting conclusion to the BBC Star Baker for 2017. It was not how I wanted it to end but not surprising who won. We watched the entire season of the Dragon Prince a very good animated show with a score by Frederick Wiedmann that was superb. Home to eat the rest of my Subway as I wasn't really hungry and clean up for leaving for tomorrow. </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I really just wanted to be with David, since next I will see him maybe Christmas. It was wonderful to be with him all 4 days. Tomorrow pick up breakfast at Mcdonald's at 6:45 to 7 AM and take a break with him at 7:30 and leave soon after for Alabama.</span></b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, my music research continues about the "early black sound / music" of Africans coming off the boat at Port Orleans and connecting it to the early forms of American classical music. I just read a book recently that says "we should not try to tie the African sounds to "classical" music, it should be Jazz and Blues. I beg to differ with the book "EXCILE" a book about Edmond Dede, but the classical sound is exactly what I want to tie it to because the earliest forms of Jazz and Blues did not come around until the early 1800's almost 100 years after this particular music I am looking for. Before I get into the history of early forms of African music on into the classical art form, I would be remiss if I didn't go over briefly the rich history of Orleans, later NEW Orleans. New Orleans area was founded by Spanish explorers in the sixth century, and the city of New Orleans was founded by the French in the 18th century. The transformation of Orleans from a cotton trade city into an industrial port serving the Mississippi area, happened later in the 1800's but it important to know it's beginning history. This transformation of a cotton trade city made New Orleans wealthy and fast. The rich and elite seeking music had the opera house and Congo Square for the slaves. New Orleans systematically was designed in 1719 by a man named Chevalier Le Blond de La Tour. It was located in the wetlands near the Mississippi River. Chevalier Le Blond de La Tour designed the city with only 66 squares that each measure 300 feet with a levy to prevent flooding. Development focused at the edge of the city which was 11 squares long or one-mile long. Center of the city consisted of two parts the area where the troops stayed in the area where the church was, later known as Jackson Square. Streets were designed to be narrow to better be utilizing shade, much like those found in tropical climates and named in honor of the French royal family. The original city became known as the French Quarter, due to the influence of French architecture. With such a demand of work and more workers needed an even more greater demand for entertainment was needed. OK, so we have established that New Orleans after 1699 and once developed and the settlement started in and around 1719, it is evident that New Orleans destiny was to become a rich city even though the sister states (the 13 colonies were struggling to thrive themselves). Still under the Spanish rule from 1763 to 1803, there were still problems. The colony had just signed a 3 year treaty granting Americans to freely navigate the Mississippi River and the right to deposity goods in the Port of Orleans, after the treaty of 1795 expired in 1798, Spain refused to allow those American vessels to enter the Port of Orleans. This was a problem. Results: in 1798 Americans in the Ohio Basin claimed they couldn't survive without the use of the Mississippi River then President Thomas Jefferson suggests the purchase of New Orleans from Spain, which had secretly given Louisiana back to France. Sneaky as it was IT WORKED. So, the purchase of Louisiana took place in 1803 for 15 million dollars. The United States doubled in size all due to the purchase of the this area. So how does music tie into this history lesson ? With the area growing after the Louisiana Purchase and 45 years before the Civil War, New Orleans (the cotton trade city and ever growing, needed a way to fix boredom). With people coming into the exciting and growing city so did new ideas and old ones. Music was an old added luxury that was needed for New Orleans.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The music, whether African sounds, or music from the tribal gatherings or classical music they "did somehow" find its way into the city from the early parts of the 1700, 1800 and on into today. One such milestone besides the placement of streetcars replacing mule driven wagons and salons for the elite replacing brothels and shacks was the opening of very nice places for music to be heard throughout the city. The more New Orleans grew the better the entertainment was that came into the city. </span><span style="font-size: large;">By 1815 the city experienced a growth in commercial expansion due to the availability of steamboats. </span><span style="font-size: large;">After the Civil War, Italian and German immigrants from Europe joined the already existing melting pot that caused tension which eventually would end in riot in 1866 and 1900. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The French opera house opened in 1859 between the streets of Bourbon and Toulouse until it burned down in 1919, It hosted the upper class division of the New Orleans society of both white and creole. New Orleans was the first United States city to have its own Opera company. New Orleans opera house was reopened in 1943.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Théâtre de l'Opéra</i>, was an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_house" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Opera house"><span style="color: black;">opera house</span></a> in <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans,_Louisiana" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;" title="New Orleans, Louisiana"><span style="color: black;">New Orleans</span></a>. It was one of the city's landmarks from its opening in 1859 until it was destroyed by fire in 1919. It stood in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Quarter" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;" title="French Quarter"><span style="color: black;">French Quarter</span></a> at the uptown lake corner of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbon_Street" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Bourbon Street"><span style="color: black;">Bourbon</span></a> and Toulouse Streets, with the main entrance on Bourbon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Designed by <span style="color: black;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gallier,_Jr." style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;" title="James Gallier, Jr."><span style="color: black;">James Gallier</span>,<span style="color: black;"> Jr.</span></a>,</span> the hall was commissioned by <a class="new" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Boudousqui%C3%A9&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Charles Boudousquié (page does not exist)"><span style="color: black;">Charles Boudousquié</span></a>, then the director of the opera company, which had previously made its home in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_d%27Orl%C3%A9ans" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Théâtre d'Orléans"><span style="color: black;">Théâtre d'Orléans</span></a>. After a dispute with new owners of the Orléans, Boudousquié determined to build a grand new house for French opera. The building went up in less than a year at a cost of $118,500 and for the next sixty years, it was the center of social activity in New Orleans. Not only <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Opera"><span style="color: black;">opera</span></a> was held there, but also Carnival balls, debuts, benefits, receptions, and concerts. On May 23, 1859, the <i>New Orleans Delta</i> gave a description of the new theater: </span><span style="font-size: large;">By April 25, 1862, New Orleans had been captured by Union forces in the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Civil_War" style="background: none; font-size: x-large;" title="US Civil War"><span style="color: black;">US Civil War</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> and the French Opera ceased to present performances until the end of the war. However, in 1864, the wife of Union General Nathaniel P. Banks held a ball at the theater in honor of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington" style="background: none; font-size: x-large;" title="George Washington"><span style="color: black;">George Washington</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">'s birthday. At the end of the War, the French Opera House was reopened and continued to present many American operatic premieres.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">By 1913, however, the house had fallen on hard times and was forced into receivership. An anonymous donor (later identified as William Ratcliffe Irby) purchased the building and donated it to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulane_University" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Tulane University"><span style="color: black;">Tulane</span> <span style="color: black;">University</span></a>, along with the wherewithal to operate it under the new leadership of the French tenor <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agustarello_Affr%C3%A9" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Agustarello Affré"><span style="color: black;">Agustarello</span> <span style="color: black;">Affré</span></a>. The building reopened, but went up in flames on the night of December 4, 1919. The last performance was <span style="color: black;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_Meyerbeer" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Giacomo Meyerbeer"><span style="color: black;">Giacomo</span> <span style="color: black;">Meyerbeer</span></a>'s <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Huguenots" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Les Huguenots"><span style="color: black;">Les</span> <span style="color: black;">Huguenots</span></a></i></span>, a long favorite among old family Creoles. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The French Opera House itself was the most fashionable establishment in New Orleans in the years between the Civil War and World War I. The first night of the opera season was the opening of the social season in New Orleans, and it is an important feature of New Orleans social life, attendance being a social event of importance in accordance with its rituals and traditions. The French Opera season became the center of social life for New Orleans' elite, with the oldest and most prominent families owning seats in the theater's boxes or "Loges Grilles". Here are a few debuts of the French Opera House.</span><br />
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<li style="break-inside: avoid-column; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-size: large;">1860: <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_(opera)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Martha (opera)">Martha</a></i> (French Version) by Friedrich von Flotow</span></li>
<li style="break-inside: avoid-column; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-size: large;">1861: <i><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_pardon_de_Plo%C3%ABrmel" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Le pardon de Ploërmel">Le pardon de Ploërmel</a></i> by Giacomo Meyerbeer</span></li>
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<li style="break-inside: avoid-column; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-size: large;">1883: <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_roi_de_Lahore" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Le roi de Lahore">Le roi de Lahore</a></i> by Jules Massenet</span></li>
<li style="break-inside: avoid-column; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-size: large;">1885: <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mireille_(opera)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Mireille (opera)">Mireille</a></i> by Charles Gounod</span></li>
<li style="break-inside: avoid-column; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-size: large;">1888: <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_tribut_de_Zamora" style="background: none; color: #faa700;" title="Le tribut de Zamora">Le tribut de Zamora</a></i> by Gounod</span></li>
<li style="break-inside: avoid-column; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-size: large;">1889: <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_reine_de_Saba" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="La reine de Saba">La reine de Saba</a></i> by Gounod</span></li>
<li style="break-inside: avoid-column; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-size: large;">1890: <i><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Roi_d%27Ys" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Le Roi d'Ys">Le Roi d'Ys</a></i> by Edouard Lalo</span></li>
<li style="break-inside: avoid-column; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-size: large;">1890: <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Cid_(opera)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Le Cid (opera)">Le Cid</a></i> by Massenet</span></li>
<li style="break-inside: avoid-column; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-size: large;">1891: <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigurd_(opera)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Sigurd (opera)">Sigurd</a></i> by Ernest Reyer</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">The Storyville red light district was established in 1897 in an attempt to regulate prostitution into a 20 block radius inside the French Quarter. United States Navy closed Storyville and 1917.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">(Storyville detailed further in blog)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of the effects of immigration in New Orleans from 1860 to 1930 with the jobs that Italian Sicilians immigrants took </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In their impact story bill and the creation of Dixieland Jazz they were forced to live with Creole people in the French quarter upon arrival. Though not as a discriminating as Afro-Americans because of their light-skinned Italians found it hard to find any prestigious job. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Listed here is a fine composer and artist from France in 1760, he never came to the United States but his music migrated to New Orleans. </span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (December 25, 1745 – June 10, 1799) was a virtuoso violinist, and conductor of the leading symphony orchestra in Paris. Born in Guadeloupe, he was the son of George Bologne de Saint-Georges, a wealthy planter, and Nanon, his African slave. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">(http://www.amistadresearchcenter.org/) </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This Center, like the Williams Research Center (downtown NOLA), houses some of the best pristine special collection of sheet music, recordings, books, pictures and brochures on early New Orleans music. I don't mean 1900's but early 1800's and late 1700's. 12 years ago most of the music and collections were destroyed with the devastation of Katrina. The smartness of the curators was to send the collections prior to the storm to different geographical locations in the US; digitally and facsimiles thus saving the works of the collections I seek today:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Basile J Bares 1860-1867 collection ( folder one of 4)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Thomas Greene Bethune 1886</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Lawrence Dubucues 1893</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Laurent Dubuclet </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Eugene Macarty</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Sister Seraphine 1896</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Samuel Snaer 1865</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now, my pet peeve, is that the music appreciation classes I've taken in the past mentions hardly any of these composers and if the instructors do mention them, their works are hardly mentioned and not played. I have a problem with this, especially if music composers music should be heard....duhhhhh... It comes strange to me that just by collecting music and information about these composers, that even a simple blog can house some of the best examples and therefore that is GMP&A quest to do just that. My recollection of the earliest days of New Orleans bringing Africians into the Port, is 1699. Remember music could only have been brought in by means of sheet music or in someone's head.) Also remember that the maturing America had new laws concerning slaves, the 13 colonies differ from that of Port Orleans and the surroundings (like Mobile and Biloxi). To capture that part of history and make since of it is almost a miracle within itself. I mean the history was so complex with different laws and governments controlling the rights of slaves (as large and massive a story, the music (I want to capture) almost seems infinitesimal). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The history of slavery in the area currently known as Louisiana did not begin only with colonial settlement by Europeans, as Native Americans also reduced captured enemies to the status of slaves. Following Robert Cavelier de La Salle establishing the French claim to the territory and the introduction of the name Louisiana, the first settlements in the southernmost portion of Louisiana (New France) were developed at present-day Biloxi (1699), Mobile (1702), Natchitoches (1714), and New Orleans (1718). Slavery was then established by European colonists. The institution was maintained by the Spanish (1763–1800) when the area was part of New Spain, by the French when they briefly reacquired the colony (1800-03), and by the United States following the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. Due to its complex history, Louisiana had a very different pattern of slavery compared to the rest of the United States.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Chattel slavery was introduced by French colonists in Louisiana in 1706, when they made raids on the Chitimacha settlements. Thousands of indigenous people were killed, and the surviving women and children were taken as slaves. The enslavement of natives, including the Atakapa, Bayogoula, Natchez, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Taensa, and Alabamon peoples, would continue throughout the history of French rule.[citation needed] While Native American peoples had sometimes made slaves of enemies captured in war, they also tended to adopt them into their tribes and incorporate them among their people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The French introduced African chattel slaves to the territory in 1710, after capturing a number as plunder during the War of the Spanish Succession. Trying to develop the new territory, the French transported more than 2,000 Africans to New Orleans between 1717–1721, on at least eight ships. The death toll for African and native slaves was high, with scurvy and dysentery widespread because of poor nutrition and sanitation. Although sailors also suffered from scurvy, enslaved Africans were subject to more shipboard diseases owing to overcrowding.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">>>> Spanish rule (1763–1803)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">When Alejandro O'Reilly re-established Spanish rule in 1768, he issued a decree on December 7, 1769, which banned the trade of Native American slaves. Although there was no movement toward abolition of the African slave trade, Spanish rule introduced a new law called coartación, which allowed slaves to buy their freedom and that of other slaves.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">A group of maroons led by Jean Saint Malo resisted re-enslavement from their base in the swamps east of New Orleans between 1780 and 1784.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">>>>> Pointe Coupée conspiracy</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">On May 4, 1795, 57 slaves and three local white men were put on trial in Point Coupee. At the end of the trial 23 slaves were hanged and 31 slaves received a sentence of flogging and hard labor. The three white men were deported, with two sentenced to six years forced labor in Havana.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The demand for slaves increased in Louisiana and other parts of the Deep South after the invention of the cotton gin (1793) and the Louisiana Purchase (1803). The cotton gin allowed the processing of short-staple cotton, which thrived in the upland areas. It made possible a new commodity crop in northern Louisiana, although sugar cane continued to be predominant in southern Louisiana. The Mississippi River Delta area in southeast Louisiana created the ideal alluvial soil necessary for the growing of sugar cane; sugar was the state's prime export during the antebellum period.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The United States banned the importation of slaves in 1807–08. A brisk domestic slave trade developed; many thousands of black slaves were sold by slave holders in the Upper South to buyers in the Deep South, in what amounted to a significant forced migration.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Early in 1811, while Louisiana was yet the U.S. Territory of Orleans, the largest slave revolt in American history began about thirty miles outside of New Orleans (or a greater distance if traveled alongside the twisting Mississippi River), as slaves rebelled against the brutal work regimens of sugar plantations. There had been a sizable influx of refugee French planters from the former French colony of Saint-Domingue following the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804), who brought their slaves of African descent with them. This influence was likely a contributing factor in the revolt. The German Coast Uprising ended with white militias and soldiers hunting down black slaves, peremptory tribunals or trials in three parishes (St. Charles, St. John the Baptist, and Orleans), execution of many of the rebels, and the public display of their severed heads.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Slavery was officially abolished by the state constitution of 1864, during the American Civil War. Slavery had theoretically been abolished by President Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, which provided that slaves located in territories which were in rebellion against the United States were free. In some areas, slaves left the plantations to seek Union military lines for freedom. If such lines were located too far away, they were often held in servitude until the Union gained control of the South.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Difference between slavery in Louisiana and in the rest of the country</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Free woman of color with quadroon daughter. Late 18th-century collage painting, New Orleans.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">18th-century colonial Louisiana had a completely different slave-trade pattern than that of the Thirteen Colonies. First, the slaves originated from French, and later Spanish, colonies (principally from Senegal, the Bight of Benin and the Congo region), rather than from British colonies. After the Louisiana Purchase, an influx of slaves and free blacks from the United States occurred.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Secondly, Louisiana's slave trade was governed by the French Code Noir, and later by its Spanish equivalent the Código Negro, As written, the Code Noir gave unparalleled rights to slaves, including the right to marry. Although it authorized and codified cruel corporal punishment against slaves under certain conditions, it forbade slave owners to torture them or to separate married couples (or to separate young children from their mothers). It also required the owners to instruct slaves in the Catholic faith, implying that Africans were human beings endowed with a soul, an idea that had not been acknowledged until then.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Together with a more permeable historic French system related to the status of gens de couleur libres (free people of color), often born to white fathers and their mixed-race concubines, a far higher percentage of African Americans in the state of Louisiana were free as of the 1830 census (13.2% in Louisiana compared to 0.8% in Mississippi, whose population was dominated by white Anglo-Americans.) The free people of color were on average exceptionally literate, with a significant number of them owning businesses, properties, and even slaves.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The Code Noir also forbade interracial marriages, but interracial relationships were formed in New Orleans society. The mulattoes became an intermediate social caste between the whites and the blacks, while in the English colonies the mulattoes and blacks were considered equal and discriminated against equally.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">When control of Louisiana shifted to the United States, the Catholic social norms were deeply rooted in Louisiana; the contrast with predominantly Protestant parts of the young nation, where English norms prevailed, was evident. The Americanization of Louisiana resulted in the mulattoes being considered as black, and free blacks were regarded as undesirable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am just finishing Sybil Kein's book Creole "the history and legacy of Louisiana's free people of color" it too suggest that people of color were free in New Orleans, in the early 1700's as does Freddi Williams Evans' book "Congo Square" to make their own minds up as to what music they'd play and music they'd sing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">the beautiful stained glass windows at Tilton Hall / Tulane where the Amistad Collection is housed. <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Amistad Research Center</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> | </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Tilton Hall</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> | Tulane University. 6823 St. Charles Avenue | New Orleans, LA 70118. O (504) 862-3222</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">After thought this music of the era I seek is considered "classical" by all means and purposes. So, I continue to search and that search took me to Tulane University (Amistad Research Center) on Friday (Dec 15th). </span></span></span><br />
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Gamble Music Production and Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02799870535857174447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4291668056904324632.post-58199365297467702722017-06-22T20:46:00.006-07:002017-06-22T20:49:46.223-07:00June 17th 2017 New Orleans / Finding out more than the Blues.<span style="font-size: large;">Every time I come to New Orleans I learn something new and something interesting. How to pronounce French words correctly is hard enough but to remember what foods to order that I like is an undertaking. Arrived Saturday morning and listened WWOZ coming into NOLA, Jazz and Blues. Bluesville on XM radio, got me ready for the New Orleans feel. This trip would be to use the XA 30 Canon and not concentrate on music as much but that is like giving candy to a child and telling them NOT to eat it. It can't be done, so this will be an educational trip also. Oragami for lunch on Saturday and it was a late lunch but rolled down the window in the car to hear some music. Wing-stop for a late dinner (bbq chicken wings). Up Sunday morning for worship at Edgewater Baptist Church, service was great, Chad and his family on vacation so Richard (a deacon preached), Dat Dog after church, I had the hamburger hot dog. VERY GOOD. Music in the background. Hung out at the room (David and I) and then Wing-stop again for dinner. This morning up at ate breakfast at Pontilly Coffee Shop across the street from NOBTS. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tuesday - (20th) Mona's for lunch. Rained most of the day. Museum of Art (NOMA). ((earlier)) </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wednesday - (21st), David had to work, so I headed to the Williams Research Center (410 Chartres St., NOLA) www.hnoc.org </span><span style="font-size: large;">I'd been there before (back several months ago) just to say that I'd been but never to ask for anything from the special collections or archive, only to read. Today was unbelievable. I met Heather Szafran and another Heather, both helped me from the time I arrived, through the tornado warning. I studied without knowing there was a water spout just outside the Center that set off the tornado warning; I just studied through it. Heather and Heather asked me what I wanted. I told them it was an on going study of the African music (sound) that transformed into classical and then into the early sounds of the blues and jazz. First things first, to study the African sound I'd need to go back to the Amistad Collection at Tulane (been there and done that, when I studied Freddy Williams "Congo Square") http://www.amistadresearchcenter.org/, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">re: Amistad Research Center | Tilton Hall | Tulane University</span><br />
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Charles B. Rousseve papers, 1842-1994 | Amistad Research Center</h1>
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By Andrew <span style="font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px;">Salinas </span><span class="bold" style="font-size: 14.4px;">Title:</span><span style="font-size: 14.4px;"> Charles B. Rousseve papers, 1842-1994</span><span style="font-size: 1.3em;">Collection Overview</span></div>
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<span class="bold" style="font-weight: 700;">Creator:</span> Rousseve, Charles B. (1902-1993)<br />
<span class="bold" style="font-weight: 700;">Extent:</span> 5.59 Linear Feet<br />
<span class="bold" style="font-weight: 700;">Date Acquired:</span> 01/01/1984<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Since I'd been there already Heather suggested that I look into some items of interest for Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829 - 1869) a composer I'd known about from a few cds that I'd purchased on line about the history of classical to blues transformation. I decided to give it a chance and go for the special collection items on LM Gottschalk. When Heather brought me the items I teared up immediately, as these were not replicas or books about Gottschalk but his own works (originals). I could not and still can not believe that I actually had my hands on such valuable yet fragile items. One such book was so fragile I used a cradle, a cloth rolled up on both ends describing a scroll turned upside down and shoe strings that were weighed down to old the pages as I read or took pictures, oh the book ? written in 1860 several years before the ending of the Civil War and just a year before the war began. My mind was blown. There the info of LM Gottschalk was so vast and rich it would take a month just to research it alone. Once my research was complete for the day (I was tired and hungry), I decided to give it a rest and go take David some lunch and get some lunch too. Gottschalk would have to wait until the blog or another day in NOLA. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">www.LouisMoreauGottschalk.com </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "tahoma" , "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: large;">Traditionally, Gottschalk is remembered as a virtuoso, as well as a prolific composer of popular (and, so it is said, quite often rather sentimental) music. While there may be some truth in this statement, it is our belief that there is more to Gottschalk and his music than just that. As one of his biographers has put it, Gottschalk was “both an arch-romantic and a rationalist, a sentimentalist and a pragmatist, at once America´s first regionalist composer, its first multiculturalist, and its first true nationalist.”<br />
Gottschalk was also the first and, one might well argue, possibly the last pan-American composer and artist. Not only did he travel frequently outside the United States, as did, by necessity, most virtuoso pianists at the time; he also lived in South America and the Caribbean for extended periods of time, incorporating, without prejudice but with critical judgment, many local influences and musical traditions. He also was politically outspoken on issues such as slavery and the Civil War, and while a true American patriot, he did not spare his countrymen acrimonious criticism whenever he deemed it appropriate.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "tahoma" , "arial" , "helvetica";"><span style="font-size: large;">If you have comments or suggestions concerning this website, feel free to let us know by sending an email to info2@louismoreaugottschalk.com</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "tahoma" , "arial" , "helvetica";"><span style="font-size: large;">.</span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">The cool thing about the new pay to park (parking lots) you enter your phone number and tag and then pay. The entrance of the tag obviously keeps up with whom you are BUT the telephone number text warns you about your time limit. My phone warned me that I only had like 10 minutes to get to the car, 3 hours was plenty of time but then all I had to do was go and reset the meter to about one hour more. This was to study the display of STORYVILLE. A touchy subject BUT I WILL COVER IT. You see Storyville is about the era of time frame I am researching BUT it includes a RATED PG-13 format that I promised my readers someday I may have to cover. UP UNTIL THIS POINT sex, brothels anything to do with a not so pleasant subject matter was not mentioned at GMP&A because as I have promised so many it is a family website.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I will try to be as discreet as I can. Here we go. The display at the Williams Research Center was excellent, information had to really be researched to have such a display as that. The meaning of STORYVILLE is as such..</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22.4px;">Storyville</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22.4px;"> was the </span><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-light_district" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Red-light district"><span style="color: black;">red-light district</span></a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;"> of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="New Orleans"><span style="color: black;">New Orleans</span></a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Louisiana"><span style="color: black;">Louisiana</span></a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;">,</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22.4px;"> from 1897 to 1917. It was established by municipal ordinance under the New Orleans City Council, to regulate prostitution and drugs. Sidney Story, a city alderman, wrote guidelines and legislation to control prostitution within the city. The ordinance designated a sixteen block area as the part of the city in which prostitution, although still nominally illegal, was tolerated or regulated. The area was originally referred to as "The District", but its nickname, "Storyville", soon caught on, much to the chagrin of Alderman Story.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.3333px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 13.3333px; white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22.4px;"> It was bound by the streets of North Robertson, Iberville, Basin, and St. Louis Streets. It was located by a train station, making it a popular destination for travelers throughout the city, and became a centralized attraction in the heart of New Orleans. Only a few of its remnants are now visible. The neighborhood lies in </span><b><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faubourg_Trem%C3%A9" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Faubourg Tremé"><span style="color: black;">Faubourg Tremé</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22.4px;">and the land is now used for housing. As I understand the story there were millionaires, bankers, lawyers, high society gentlemen that would frequent these houses in the red-light area of NOLA near Basin Street. These brothels would house for the weekends and after work, musicians that were very talented and the best that NOLA had. Other "not so well brothels" had cheap gramaphones for music entertainment. There were as such books "BLUE, RED, GREEN, YELLOW, etc.. that one could purchase for 25 cents that listed in alphabetical order the names and address of the ladies of the evening that also worked at the better know brothels in this area. I will leave this alone for right now but the uneasy part of this story is still untold, not to give NOLA a bad name, because that is where the history is, it is that I'd rather not go into anymore detail unless you contact me by email. I'd always wondered why NOLA had a bad rep for the 1800's and early 1900's now I know. One such artist was Tony Jackson, one of the best piano players in NOLA (circa 1880), Jackson passed in 1921. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There was noting that Jackson could not play from any genre hearing it only once he could play it. Unfortunately he attended and played at many brothels in the red-light district. The more famous the artist the more the Madams' wanted them to entertain to keep clients. Prostitutes were controlled in the mid 1900's but up until then, they were not controlled and they were taxed as any other item for sell in NOLA. With that part of the pay to the artist would come form the city itself. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 22.4px;">Lulu White was one of the most famous madams in Storyville, running and maintaining Mahogany Hall. She employed 40 prostitutes and sustained a four-story building that housed 15 bedrooms and five parlors. She often found herself in trouble with the law for serving liquor without a license and was known to get violent when another intervened in her practice.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 22.4px;">Her clients were the most prominent and wealthiest men in Louisiana and she is remembered for her glamour and jewels "which were like the 'lights of the St. Louis Exposition' just as reported in her promotional booklet"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wednesday night (21st) </span><span style="font-size: large;">David and I went to the French Market Cafe' to eat muffuletta, and heard Richard Knox (one of the best blues / jazz pianist I've ever heard). His story is as follows: first from ((</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.2px;"><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The New Orleans Jazz Scene, 1970-2000: A Personal Retrospective)) </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2px;"><b>Richard Knox was born in Champaign, Illinois (ideally located between St. Louis and Chicago, Il) on September 20th 1941, the last of seven children. For as long as he can remember, he played piano. Relatives say that he started when he was about four years old. The first song that Richard remembers playing was called the "Honey Dipper". By the time he entered high school Richard had a yearning to play in a group. He got together with two of his fellow classmates and formed "Le Trois" (translated "the three". They played rock and roll hits and imitated stand up groups like Little Anthony and the Imperials. In the latter part of his secondary school years, his interest in the Blues was sparked by the bands that played at local Club call "The Hole" in the Champaign Danton area. At night, Richard with sneak out into the club, take a seat in a secluded corner and absorb himself in the music. Some of the musicians who knew that he could play, would invite him to jam with them on the bandstand. He realized, then, that playing the piano was in important part of his life and he wanted to be a famous musician. Richard Knox started working professionally in Chicago in the 60s with blues artists such as Earl Hooker and Roland Brown and the Jazz Merchants. The music led him to New Orleans in 1966. Richard work at the renowned Do Drop Inn ((The Dew Drop Inn, at 2836 LaSalle Street, in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, is a former hotel and nightclub that operated between 1939 and 1970, and is noted as "the most important and influential club" in the development of rhythm and blues music in the city in the post-war period. The venue primarily served the African-American population in the then heavily-segregated Southern United States)), ( where he played with various New Orleans artists including Johnny Adams, Earl King, Porgy Jones, and James Rivers. He formed a jazz group called The Three Sages in the mid-70s. This Trio featured John Brunlus on trumpet and Sydney Wilson on drums. After leaving the three sages, he had a desire to play rock and psychedelic music comma so he joined the Deacon John band. </b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2px;"><b>((Deacon John Moore (born June 23, 1941, New Orleans, Louisiana) better known as Deacon John is a blues, rhythm and blues and rock and roll musician, singer, actor, and bandleader)).</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2px;"><b>It was during this time that Richard enrolled in southern University of New Orleans School of Music and was greatly influenced by the instruction of Professor and acclaimed jazz musician kid Jordan. By 1980 he began playing with noted New Orleans traditional jazz musician Teddy Riley and Thomas Jefferson. Richard Knox has covered the gamut of music genre. He is most noted among his fellow musicians as the keyboard man who plays much like Jimmy Smith. Richard may be seen in some of the New Orleans finest hotels playing piano with some of the newer New Orleans best musicians and performers such as Walter Peyton, Alva Jacques and Barbara Shorts. Richard has performed at every New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival since the Inception of the event. For the last three years, Richard Knox has been traveling the world as piano and keyboard player for the reconstructed Dirty Dozen Brass Band. </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2px;"><b>"To play My Piano and keyboard truly quenches my thirst for Creative expression. It's my life's calling. I feel so grateful for this gift that God has given me. I want to share my piano with the world." - Richard Knox</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "tahoma" , "arial" , "helvetica";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "tahoma" , "arial" , "helvetica";"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;">He gave me his telephone number and invited GMP&A for a video and audio interview the next time I'm in NOLA. </span>Gamble Music Production and Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02799870535857174447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4291668056904324632.post-13402555868726532962016-11-18T14:05:00.003-08:002019-01-02T17:47:23.821-08:00Early Music about Jesus / Research at NOBTS continues on NOV 18 2016 / WHY NO HYMNS ABOUT JESUS UNTIL 350 AD ?<b style="font-size: xx-large;">NOBTS research continues on Nov 18th 2016</b><br />
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Got David and myself breakfast at McDonald's, he wanted a breakfast parfait and oatmeal, myself a egg mcmuffin with canadian bacon and cheese. Orange juice and a diet dr. pepper, dropped it off at the guard shack, got me a hug and headed back to the room for my meds and to eat.<br />
Once done back to the Library of Music at NOBTS. Maybe my answer to Old vs New Testament music in secular and sacred music. In the time that Jesus lived to about his 33rd year, music in the church, old and new, has really puzzled me; especially in the past 25 years. My research leads me down a curious road of broken information, not fluidity, as the stories go. The music of the New Testament Church should have began during the ascension of Christ but I am finding now that the music for "the New Testament Church" would not start until some 100 to 300 years later, and songs about the Christ, the Savior, would not be sung with instruments but as in a chant by Georgian singers or Greeks bearing Oxyrhynchus chants. There are instruments praising God in the Psalms but the actual music that celebrates and commemorates the Lord Jesus Christ does not come into existence until much later after his death and ascension as mentioned above (some 300 plus years). I have researched around the 50's and 60's AD and do not find any reference about the birth, death, resurrection or ascension in song. Shortly after the death of Jesus, persecution of Christians was still happening in and around the 60 AD. It would have been with the massive fire that wiped out most of Rome (only a 1/4 of Rome was left) in 64 AD, that was a relief in the Christian world. Perhaps composers were even thinking about a music that they could offer to the King of Kings at that point. We are finding out more and more about Christians in the "Early Church" and I have read recently that after the GREAT PERSECUTION in 303 AD (43 years after peace, hardly any news of Christian Persecution was heard of), then in 303 AD, vengeance started again in a wrath so strong it became the Great Persecution. Shortly after this did the relief finally happen and almost 325 years after the death of Christ could Christians finally speak about Jesus as a Savior and live the life modeled after him. Music now could be written and composed about this marvelous man. The New Testament mentions singing hymns during the LAST SUPPER. "When they sung the hymn, they went to the Mount of Olives...Matt 26:30. Other ancient witnesses such as Pope Clement 1, Tertulllian, St. Athanasis and Egeria confirm the practice, although in poetic or obscure ways that shed little light on how music sounded during this period. The 3rd century Greek "OXYRHYNCHUS HYMN" survived with musical notation, but the connection between this hymn and the plainchant tradition is uncertain. Musical elements that would later be used in ROMAN RITE began to appear in the 3rd century. The Apostolic Tradition, attributed to the theologian Hippolytus, attests the singing of Hallel psalms (Jewish songs, from the Psalms 113 to 118), which get this was used for PRAISE and Thanksgiving songs includes "with Alleluia as the refrain" (which is Hebrew BUT the Christians picked it up later) in early Christian agape feasts. Hello ??? any of this sound like what goes around comes back around.... WOW... So... Chants of the Office (of the Divine Office), sung during the canonical hours, have their roots in the early 4th century, when desert monks following St. Anthony introduced the practice of continuous psalmody, singing the complete cycle of 150 psalms each week. Around 375 AD antiphonal psalmody became poplular in the Christian East. In 386 St. Ambrose introduced this practice to the West. In the 5th century a singing school Schola Cantorum (was founded in Rome) to provide training in the church musicianship. Below is an example of the Greek OXYRHYNCHUS HYMN. circa about 3rd century Greece.)) doesn't it seem ironic that the singing of CHRISTIAN SONGS Schools.... birthplace began where the very person about the singing died ?<br />
WOW. what a wake up call that was for me.<br />
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NOW on to the New Orleans Collection after a stop at NOBTS Library...(see Francis at the Collection)....<br />
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In the Oxford University / Early Music edition vol xxxiv/2, May 2006 referenced that early Georgian chant (Latin and English) was the bridge way for the om sound (borrowed from the early Tibetan Monks) in their song. Did they pick up the idea from the Tibetan monks or did they have an intuition that the OM sound was just what was needed as the soothing sound of God ? or what it took to heal the mind, body and soul. Nevertheless, the tranquil relaxing sound (almost haunting chants) of the Georgian vocals, is what would entertain and serve as music for sacred and secular alike. Let's face it the entertainment of the early 200's to 900's (if it was not stringed, percussion, woodwinds) it had to be vocal.<br />
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...Alexander Lingas At all events, a systematic update of the dossier of evidence for Greek influence on the development of Latin chant would have to begin by acknowledging that the patterns of musical and liturgical influence were undoubtedly more complicated than previously imagined. David Hiley...<br />
Constantin Floros, an eminent and prolific scholar of wide-ranging interests who taught for many years at the University of Hamburg, is well known in the English-speaking world for his writings on 19th- and 20th-century music, especially that of Gustav Mahler. Nearly half a century ago, however, he began producing a series of what are now recognized as seminal contributions to the study of Byzantine and Slavonic chant that began in 1961 with a three-volume Habilitationsschrift on the Middle Byzantine repertory of Kontakia of 1961 and continued with pioneering articles on the decipherment of enigmatic early notations. Complementing and in some ways paralleling the efforts of scholars in Anglo-American academia (including Oliver Strunk, Egon Wellesz, and their students), Floros followed these specialized studies with his monumental three-volume Universale Neumenkunde (Kassel, 1970). The first volume of this ‘Universal theory of neumes’ consolidated his previous work on the development of Byzantine and Slavonic...<br />
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this takes you to the sight that lists the types of chant music and early music in the church.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The curators of the NOMA (New Orleans Museum of Art) have finally given me the ok to share with my fans and followers that in which I have worked so very hard researching. Even though there is a copyright to the following you are about the see, this out of print document needs to be seen by everyone whom enters this sight because mainly you are continuing your research as I am on the early sounds of African music (thanks to Stephen Hayes for putting that thought into my head). What you are about to see if offered by the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) and all rights thereof belong to NOMA and only used here as educational purposes. No profit will be generated to or by this sight nor this page for Gamble Music Production and Archive or Scott Gamble. If any donation is generated all proceeds go back to fund the arts at NOMA. </span><br />
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Gamble Music Production and Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02799870535857174447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4291668056904324632.post-61466033204147106252016-06-04T18:57:00.003-07:002016-11-20T08:09:54.804-08:00New Orleans Lesson in Music 5/21/16 and updated Nov 19 20165-21-2016<br />
If New Orleans learned anything from Katrina, as over stated as that is, it is the lesson of keeping her head up and not drowning. I had a great time this past week with David, it was filled with watching re-runs of HOUSE MD, food, fellowship with his dorm buddies and MUSIC. Her hit from Mother Nature was a jolt indeed but sister New Orleans is filled with visitors (I noticed from the packed house at the Aquarium for the Americas and other places that we went, so visitors are coming back into the city. Mainly the MUSIC plays a great part again, because let's face it, that is what I focus on, Every place we went had music. EVERYWHERE.<br />
On Saturday night I had the privilege of hearing Lars Edegran and Jamie Wight play together. The two curators of Jazzology that I had collaborating with in my blues and early jazz quest, were finally together in a band and I could hear the fruits of their labor. Incredible as the sound was and the great flawless band, my thought traveled back to that awful day when hurricane Katrina came into New Orleans and wiped out downtown. Now look, she has bounced back with her splendor, and music once again. I saw a half nude woman walking down the street while we waited for the Palm Court to open and yes she was almost nude and I thought to myself, I guess you have the take the bad with the good. So some of the filth is still in the streets but the unique people are coming back and so is the music.<br />
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portable recording studio to capture some archive</div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The BMC Lounge features great bands like Ovation and Got Blues ? The BMC (Balcony Music Club) is located at <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 16.12px;">1331 Decatur St, New Orleans, LA 70116</span></span></div>
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a great trip to New Orleans and funny how fast time slips away when you are having a great time. Thank you David for a wonderful memory.</div>
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Nov 19th 2016 (Saturday Night in New Orleans). There is a mis-nomer about New Orleans nightlife, that everything must be foul or vulgar. That is not true at all. Most of you know I do not drink and when I am in New Orleans I must stay focused on what I want to do in my leisure (when I am not with my son), That is music. New Orleans is synonyms with the music that she presents in a wide vast area. David had plans already to go to a baseball game, that left me "with plenty to do". I started by driving downtown at night, Which driving in New Orleans at night might frighten some folks, I have gotten used to it AND if you drive like you are "supposed" to then the traffic will not intimidate you at all. I started by going right back where my son and I went this morning (The French Market), By 6:30 everything was wrapping up and folks were going home SO that made for less traffic on the road EVEN THOUGH other folks took advantage of the night life scene and was coming into town. Nevertheless, I found a parking place fairly easily and head down Frenchman Street by way of Royal Street. I heard it. The sound pieced the air as the cold wind blowing into the surrounding park trees. It was almost freighting that the blowing trees were keeping time with the actual music that was being played down the street AND channeling right there to my ear. WOW. I was already in tears. I started by listening to the band posted in the video here.....</div>
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The sound quality is not very good BECAUSE if you are not tipping they are not playing. But I tipped these guys about 3 dollars in change and they allowed me to record them but across the street. It seems with a cel phone you are welcome to video tape BUT with a Sony Cam you are not, only across the street. So once I enjoyed the bluegrass sound of this band I approached the other bars and pubs of Frenchman Street (oh by the way they don't like you using a camera either). They were not ugly just protective. I get that. On down the street I went from one smoke filled bar to the other, My lungs gasping for a breathe at every interval. It was however a sacrifice I would want to take to hear some of the finest music in New Orleans. I went into 12 bars or pubs listening to just a few segments of music that they were playing. One had a one man band "playing a guitar, drums, cymbals, harmonica and piano was close by in case the ambiance needed to be called for piano. LOL. He was good. With his little Jame Taylor thing going on but I needed to sample all the music and then come back to that one in particular I liked. Some of these places do not post whom plays there, because from hour to hour they do not know if they will show or not. Most hungry musicians will show up on time. Most homeless street performers will show up on time so that another one will not come along and get their spot. </div>
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Gamble Music Production and Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02799870535857174447noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4291668056904324632.post-50260837816227391552015-12-29T17:04:00.002-08:002016-01-01T20:35:17.422-08:00New Orleans Blues and Jazz / Christmas 2015 NOLA<span style="font-size: large;">As I continue to travel to New Orleans to see my son, there is an ambiance to the air surrounding NOLA. The ora to which I mean is the feeling you get once you step out of your vehicle and detect the vibrations of music playing around you. Images almost seem to settle in ones conscience when they hear the music playing in the background but </span><span style="font-size: large;">whether or not music is playing at a bar around the corner or not, soon there will be some playing just within reach of your ears and heart. I arrived Christmas morning and exchanged gifts with my son and drove downtown to NOLA Christmasfest 2015. Everything was closed (that we could see but before arriving in NOLA) (I cheated and checked out some things that would be opened Christmas day and it so happened that the civic center was opened with Christmasfest 2015 in full operation. We had a great time, it's a winter wonderland to say the least and music galore. An ice-skating rink that I dare not try nor was David interested. We made ourselves around to the far wall and Stephen Wagner (pictured below) was working on his mural of beads. He has a declaration from the Guinness World Records for placing the most beads on a mural, see www.guinnessworldrecords.com. I placed one bead just to say I helped with the project. You can look below at the treble note, in which was my favorite part of the mural. The whole evening was magical and yes it was Christmas, a new memory but a long lasting one. Waffle House was opened Christmas night so that is where we ate dinner.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Saturday Dec. 26 (up ate breakfast at Starbucks) and shopped a little. (Crescent City Comics and Origami for lunch). </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">We drove to the French Market for food and fun. Heard some great music and met a few new people. Stopped at the Balcony Music Club where I filed this report:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lefty may be a drummer, but he’s still a blues bandleader, one who’s set up a residency of sorts on Decatur Street, usually holding it down for French Quarter blues at the Balcony Club. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And if the live show is anything like this disc, it explains his steady gig, although these performances work better as a resume than as a portrait of where he’s at right now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you’ve heard Volume 1, you know that Keith sticks to the classics—that first batch contained solid if unremarkable versions of warhorses like “The Thrill Is Gone,” “The Things That I Used to Do,”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> “Everyday I Have the Blues” and “The Blues Is All Right.” Likewise, well-worn blues standards litter this volume, which was recorded live here, in Arkansas, and in Massachusetts between 1997–2011, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">but there are twists: the True Blues do “Lovey Dovey” like Roland Stone, not the Clovers, and their take on Muddy Waters’ “I’m Ready” is so Blasters-style uptempo it’s almost rockabilly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of the three eras, the best stuff happens in Jonesboro, during the band’s brief Burnside Records tenure, with Fred Sanders behind the mic. Their renditions of B. B. King’s “Outside Help,”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Jimmy Reed’s “Baby, What You Want Me to Do” and T. Bone Walker’s deathless “Stormy Monday” sound the loosest, the most free-spirited, the most like a jam. Then again, lone original </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">“You’re So Fine,” clichéd as it is, is so expressive in its Cape Cod performance it’s practically jazz.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lefty can do shuffles, West Coast blues, Chicago electric, and New Orleans soul, but if you want to hear what he’s doing on Decatur—and what standards end up on Volume 3—you’re just </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Again, I heard them Saturday Dec. 26th, the day after Christmas when everything is supposed to be relaxed and The True Blues were in full sound. I heard three songs, their SRV (Stevie Ray Vaughan) "Pride and Joy" </span><span style="font-size: large;">was simply awesome. The Balcony Club has no smoking inside so it was wonderful inside the bar. The music was crisp and clear. Lefty and the True Blues are out of this world excellent. The Balcony Music Club 1331 Decatur Street,</span><span style="font-size: large;"> houses some of the best blues bands of New Orleans.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On Sunday Dec. 27, I met with Jamie Wight at Jazzology (1206 Decatur Street) NOLA. 70116 phone (504) 525-5000. Jamie and I spoke about my novice approach to "the blues and jazz" and he helped me again with my ongoing research of learning about this unbelievable art form. Jamie took time out of his Sunday to meet with me because the rest of my stay in NOLA was going to be limited because of spending the time with David so he didn't mind at all helping me and I appreciated him for doing so. The feeling of complete warmth when you walk in this place (if you could understand what was happening), it would take over you (in gulf you) and you'd understand everything about blues and jazz. So I walked up the stairs to my interview and Jamie (whom had just played at Preservation Hall (723 Saint Peter Street) just the night before, was receptive to every question that I had. Again as I've said before he's forgot what I wished I'd learned about this art form. It'd take me all night to type everyone of the people he suggested me listen to in understanding whom was worthy of "keeping in mind about the blues" Hundreds and even thousands of people that were instrumental in creating the art of "The Blues and Jazz." Just to name a few of the artists that was from "old blues school" that I was taught about: Willie Brown, Teddy Darby, Ed Bell, Bobby Grant, George Thomas, Rube Lacy, George Carter, Dad Nelson, Freezone, Nehemeah Skip James, Jelly Roll Morton, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Ida Cox, Blind Blake,</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Buddy Boy Hawkins, Charlie Spand, Blind Roosevelt Graves, Belle Street Sheiks, Papa Charlie Jackson, Will Ezell, Johnnie Head, Tampa Red, The Hokum Boys and Banjo Joe, Alice Moore, Viola Bartlette, Elzadie Robinson, Lucille Bogan Ivy Smith, Madlyn Davis, Mary Johnson, Leola Wilson, Art Hodes and the list continues......George Lewis, Scott Hamilton, Santo Percora, Frank Wess, Paul Barbarin, Helen Humes, Arnett Cobb, Wendell Eugene, Dave "fat man" Williams, Browne & Wight Jazz Band, Harold Ashby, Wooden Joe Nicholas, Creole George Guesnon, Nick LaRocca, Sonny Stritt, Sammy Price and if I keep on (listing names) I'll never make my point but there are so many more wonderful singers, artists that made our lives better by their beautiful music. Just in this class Jamie told and taught me so much, almost to much to consume in one day, it'd take you months even years to learn about this style, the people whom wrote and whom played the blues and jazz. I feel as if I'll learn forever about this style of music, I should have started years ago. It is interesting and so wonderful to learn about. Sometimes about the people whom played and sang it just as much as the music itself. There is a feeling of relaxation and excitement about this sentimental music. In just a few minutes I'll have a video for your entertainment and learning pleasure. In his early years George Buck's vision which is now JAZZOLOGY, was to do just that learn about and collect blues and jazz, he however dedicated his entire life to the art form where I chose to learn about classical, imagine what and where I'd be if I began so many years ago learning about the blues and jazz where I'd be now. Great men like Walt Disney, Neil Armstrong, Lewis and Clark all had great visions of something they needed to do. Buck was a visionary that knew from a young age that music was what he had to do to make him whole. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">George Buck, who parlayed a youthful passion for classic jazz to a lifelong business which produced more </span><span style="font-size: large;">than a thousand LPs and CDs on nine different labels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Buck sold newspapers on the street during World War II and put his earnings into savings bonds. To his father’s </span><span style="font-size: large;">dismay, he cashed them in, hired his favorite musicians, and put out a 78-rpm set of the sides, featuring cornetist </span><span style="font-size: large;">Wild Bill Davison, his all-time favorite, with clarinetist Tony Parenti's band. The label grew slowly and steadily, </span><span style="font-size: large;">though fifteen years later there were still only ten albums in the catalogue. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">George Buck went into the radio business and made a living buying and selling small stations – he'd find an </span><span style="font-size: large;">under performing outlet, turn it around with a new format and more efficient management, and sell it at a profit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> He used the profits from radio to subsidize the labels, and as small record producers gave up, he'd buy their </span><span style="font-size: large;">catalogs and reissued them on one of his labels, each of which was devoted to a different genre. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Buck's operations were originally centered in New Jersey, and he was later in Columbia SC and Atlanta GA </span><span style="font-size: large;">before finally relocating to New Orleans in 1987. Jazzology/GHB shares quarters on Decatur Street with the </span><span style="font-size: large;">Palm Court Jazz Café, which is run by his widow, Nina. The facility includes a recording studio and the firm’s </span><span style="font-size: large;">massive collection of master recordings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The ownership of the firm was transferred to the George H. Buck Jazz Foundation, organized by Buck to </span><span style="font-size: large;">insure that the catalog of music he assembled would remain in print eternally. Unlike most record companies, </span><span style="font-size: large;">GHB/Jazzology never deletes records from the catalog – virtually every CD in the catalog is in stock and </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">George Buck retained his boyish enthusiasm and zest for jazz throughout his life. He knew everyone in the </span><span style="font-size: large;">jazz business, particularly his end of it - traditional jazz – and when he was younger he traveled all over the </span><span style="font-size: large;">world to hear his favorites in festivals and jazz parties. Very few people get to spend their lives doing what </span><span style="font-size: large;">most of us dream about – George Buck was able to make a living from a music most people eke out a living </span><span style="font-size: large;">at – no one in his right mind would try to make a living from a music thought to be extinct about the time </span><span style="font-size: large;">he started his label. He kept his firm running successfully for over sixty years and had a lot of fun doing it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When George Buck passed away he could have not wanted better people to run and be curators of his legacy other than Jamie Wight and Larz Edegren. Jamie has helped me more times than I can count and I am honored to call him my friend and teacher.</span><br />
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Gamble Music Production and Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02799870535857174447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4291668056904324632.post-22963788970211267602015-12-08T11:58:00.002-08:002016-01-01T16:27:05.819-08:00Hal Pearl remembered <h1>
REMEMBERING HAL PEARL</h1>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>KING OF THE ORGAN</i></span></h1>
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<b>tumultuous </b><b>1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Bill Rieger recalled that </b><br />
<b>Mr. Pearl </b><b>would play at </b><b>the Aragon for the "corn beef and cabbage" fund- raisers held </b><br />
<b>by Mayor Richard J. Daley. </b><br />
<b>During </b><b>the 1970s, WTTW produced "The Toy That Grew Up," featuring Pearl's accompaniment</b><br />
<b>to classic </b><b>silent films. The show was broadcast on more than 30 public television stations.</b><br />
<b>More recent, Mr. Pearl was the headliner of organists at the reopening of the Chicago</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>My story of Hal Pearl might begin as any other with a persistence and determination to find out about a legend. </i></span></span><i style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">My call began to the Chicago Tribune when realized that Ken Griffin was from the same city (or had passed here) and Ken was friends with Hal Pearl not </i><i style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">Ray Pearl the great jazz orchestra leader (also from Chicago), to whom I was first told. </i><i style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">You remember Ken Griffin was born in Columbia, Missouri. His biggest hit was "You Can't Be True, Dear" (1948), my favorite is The Cuckoo Waltz </i><i style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">(flip side of "You Can't Be True Dear" (1948), composed by Emanuel Jonasson, which you can read the WHOLE story on this blog. "You Can't Be True Dear" </i><i style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">which was first released as an instrumental, and later that year re-released with a vocal by Jerry Wayne dubbed in. Both versions became popular, selling </i><i style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">over 3.5 million copies. He also starred in a 1954-55 syndicated television series, 67 Melody Lane. He recorded on a variety of recording labels, especially </i><i style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">Columbia.</i><i style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">It was in the 1940s in Aurora, Illinois, that Griffin broke into the nightclub circuit, playing at the Rivoli Cafe nightly. The sessions at the Rivoli cafe were </i><i style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">broadcast on the radio station, WMRO, and the program became popular. Griffin died on March 11, 1956 in Chicago, Illinois at the age of 46, of a heart </i><i style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">attack and was buried at Lincoln Memorial Park in Aurora. Columbia had many hours of Griffin's unreleased recordings on tape, and continued to release </i><i style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">"new" recordings of Griffin's music for a number of years after his death. I found out what Hal Pearls phone number was and called that October </i><i style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">morning of 1998. He was a delight to speak with, told me stories that including drinking, partying and most of all "enjoying life". Most of all Hal shared </i><i style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">with me his passion for playing organ. He boasted about being better than Ken Griffin even though Ken did release several albums. I laughed and then we </i><i style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">both did. I knew he was lonely and wanted to talk music as I spent most of my lunch hour on the phone with this legend of delight. Most of his pictures </i><i style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">are posted here that he sent me and I will never forget that wonderful conversation with him. A couple years later (2000) I'd find out from his nephew </i><i style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">he'd passed away and Chicago morns a great legend but his music will float in our minds for years.</i></div>
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Thanksgiving in New Orleans or anywhere family or love ones are is home. Driving here yesterday was beautiful, hardly any traffic and the music or WWOZ (WWOZ.org) was so "NEW ORLEANS", I kept the station on and didn't turn the knob. There is just something about that sound that makes me come alive and gets me excited about a certain anticipation of overwhelming joy. As I was out from New Orleans about a hour, the memorial service for Allen Toussaint broadcast from the Orpheum Theater downtown New Orleans, made me sad but sobered me up to the dedication and offering that he made to the city of New Orleans. His "Southern Nights" was #1 in 1977 by Glen Campbell. <span style="color: black;">The lyrics of "Southern Nights" were inspired by childhood memories Allen Toussaint had of visiting relatives in the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana" title="Louisiana"><span style="color: black;">Louisiana</span></a><span style="color: black;"> backwoods, which often entailed </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storytelling" title="Storytelling"><span style="color: black;">storytelling</span></a><span style="color: black;"> under star-filled nighttime skies. When Campbell heard Toussaint's version, he immediately identified with the lyrics which reminded him of his own youth growing up on an </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas" title="Arkansas"><span style="color: black;">Arkansas</span></a><span style="color: black;"> farm. In October 1976, Campbell recorded the song with slightly modified lyrics.</span><br />
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Steven Norman Haun<br />
October 12, 1963 - August 28, 2015<br />
Steven Norman Haun passed <span style="line-height: 1.38;">away unexpectedly Friday, August 28, 2015. Steve was born to Norman and Yvonne Haun on October 12, 1963 in Denver, Colorado. After he and his family lived in Denver, CO, </span><span style="line-height: 1.38;">Eugene, Oregon, and Lawrence, Kansas, they moved to Boulder, CO in 1971 where he attended Foothill Elementary, Casey Junior High, and Boulder High School and where he currently</span><br />
resided. Steve began taking violin and piano lessons at the age of five; but, like many young students, his interests piqued as he remembered "hating to practice more than anything".<br />
Yet his talent was sufficiently developed for him to win first place at age six in a composition contest sponsored by the College of Music at the University of Kansas. Steve continued to<br />
study the piano for several more years, then focusing on the violin seriously until the age of 15 or so. He then thought it wasn't cool anymore...sports and girls were now his big interests.<br />
He was a proud member of Kent Smith's varsity Boulder High basketball team. Along the way, he continued to win competitions and scholarships, including the Boulder Philharmonic<br />
Young Artist's Competition conducted by Oswald Lehnert and a music scholarship to the University of Colorado. Steve began his college career as a pre-med student and completed<br />
those requirements with the intention of becoming an optometrist before switching gears and going into music. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music and a Certificate in Music Technology<br />
from the University of Colorado and a Master of Music in Theory and Composition from the University of Northern Colorado. Steve has composed and produced ten CDs during his career.<br />
In addition to achieving both retail and radio chart successes, his music has been featured internationally in various television programs and during coverage of major sporting events including<br />
the 1998 Winter Olympics and the 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics as well as a story about Michael Jordan and a theme song for the Bolder Boulder. He has also composed music for<br />
documentary films and corporate videos, and has written several radio theme songs. One listener writes "I recently purchased your CD, "Impressions of the Rocky Mountains" and I must<br />
tell you that it is an incredible work of emotion...passion...intensity...all given from the heart. I would say to you that if God had music to create the earth by, this would be it. You have taken<br />
a listener on a journey of our Colorado...a place where we live and love." Steve may have left this earth, but his music will live on. In 2001, Steve married Wendy Ferland and they had one daughter together, Brooke Loy Haun. They divorced in 2007. Brooke was the joy of his life and he dedicated much of his music to her.<br />
Steve is survived by his daughter, Brooke Haun of Superior, CO, his parents, Norm and Yvonne Haun of Boulder, CO, his brother David and his sister-in-law Marcy of Superior, CO, his<br />
nephews, Hayden Haun and Holden Haun of Superior, CO, his Aunt Hannah Schmidt of Greeley, CO, his Uncle Ruben Haun of Burley, ID, his Aunt Bonnie (Lloyd) Ferguson of Casper, WY,<br />
his Uncle Murray (Dianne) Ross of Oklahoma City, OK, his Uncle Dr. Dennis Ross (Ann) of Wichita, KS and many loving cousins and friends. A celebration of Steve's life will be held Friday, September 18, 2015 at 2:00 p.m.at the Crist Mortuary, 3395 Penrose Place, Boulder, Colorado 80301. All are welcome. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to a fund for his minor daughter, Brooke, which has been set up at the Boulder Valley Credit Union, 5505 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder, CO, 80303, Attention Kathy Britton.</div>
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Steve and I were to do a interview to play exclusively on WSGQ 103.3 and WSGQ INTERNET RADIO (Columbia, Alabama), Next weekend WSGQ will devote 24 hours of STEVE's MUSIC for your reflection.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As a child I can not remember to many "July 4th" weekends that were so memorable that they stuck in my head BUT this past one with my son David was one I hope stays with me forever. His friendship, God, Music and Fun will last forever in my memory. Arrived in New Orleans the morning of July 2nd. David would get off work later in the afternoon, meant I'd go hang out at the NOBTS music library. After the music library, I napped at Providence House across the street from NOBTS (New Orleans Theological Seminary). I stayed in the Henry building room 9401 VERY NICE. Not gonna find it hard to rest in this bed. Anyway the first day was filled with going to NOMA (riding past it and getting our bearings for the next day). New Orleans Museum of Art is off the charts awesome. I understand moved from downtown to it's new location it is so worth going to see. There at the grounds of the NOMA is a parthenon of sorts and two gazebos. The gazebos are huge, and the cool thing about having David go to college there is he KNOWS the area and what to see. There is a place there called Cafe Ole (Morning Call) that I understand is older that Cafe' Du Monde, both have great coffee and beignets but the relaxed atmosphere at Cafe Ole with the Greek background is very very nice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Up early to shower, eat breakfast and head to the French Quarter to meet Jamie Wight (musician and band leader, plays at Preservation Hall, also was with the Dukes of Dixieland) with Jazzology and conduct my interview for Gamble Music and WSGQ Internet Radio. George Buck a preservationist of old blues and early jazz will have his own write up soon, as he is one of the pieces of the puzzle that fits into the woven tapestry for the transition of the early African sounds at Congo Square, to the early classical sounds of music then to the blues and jazz. The transition continues....Jamie and I met for about a hour. His generosity and kindness made what I was there for seem very easy and no less like I was at Disney for Music Lovers. He and Lars Edegran (Edegran b.1944 is a Dixieland musician and bandleader. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden) are two curators of Jazzology, you can find them at www.jazzology.com They like myself have several things going on with and for them. The building located at 1206 Decatur Street in the French Market (504-525-5000) has it's own restaurant with stage for live music, run by Nina Buck (George's wife) it also is house for a recording studio and a book and music store. When I say music store, I mean early recordings of blues and jazz that date back to the early 1940's when George Buck started his own business collecting and recording albums. Sound familiar ? I am so proud to have met Jamie but I know how wonderful it would have been to have met George Buck, he and I would have been able to talk about a lot of things especially "the preservation of music".</span></div>
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Born December 22, 1928, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth,_New_Jersey" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Elizabeth, New Jersey">Elizabeth, New Jersey</a>, Buck rose to prominence as the leading figure in the preservation and advancement of authentic traditional jazz. He started out selling newspapers during <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="World War II">World War II</a> and converting the profits into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_E_bond" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Series E bond">war bonds</a>. He took this money and recorded his first session with his favorite musicians, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Bill_Davison" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Wild Bill Davison">Wild Bill Davison</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Parenti" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Tony Parenti">Tony Parenti</a> on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazzology_Records" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Jazzology Records">Jazzology Records</a>. Soon after, he began recording <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixieland" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Dixieland">New Orleans style jazz</a> on <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GHB_Records" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="GHB Records">GHB Records</a>. He began yearly pilgrimages to New Orleans in 1961, cementing his relationship with the city by immersing himself in the culture and recording the important artists that lived here. George developed a passion for radio after hosting a radio show in college, which he dubbed, Jazzology. This early involvement in radio led him to buy many small, under performing radio stations beginning with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCOS_(AM)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="WCOS (AM)">WCOS</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia,_South_Carolina" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Columbia, South Carolina">Columbia, South Carolina</a>, and turn them around with new formats and improved management. All of his profits from this went to support his growing list of record labels. He started and bought many labels in order to make sure this music would survive and thrive. The nine labels he issued a wide range of jazz music on are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazzology_Records" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Jazzology Records">Jazzology</a>, GHB, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_Records" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Circle Records">Circle</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southland_Records" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Southland Records">Southland</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Music_Records" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="American Music Records">American Music</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Swan_Records" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Black Swan Records">Black Swan</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audiophile_Records" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Audiophile Records">Audiophile</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Records" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Progressive Records">Progressive</a>, and Solo Art.</div>
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The largest collection of jazz music in the world is under this umbrella. According to his son, Buck's passion, love, and enthusiasm for jazz never diminished. He and his wife, Nina moved the operation to New Orleans in 1987 and in 1989 expanded yet again by opening the Palm Court Jazz Café, which became an important part of New Orleans jazz culture under the management of his wife. The GHB Jazz Foundation houses the record business and is located on the second floor of the same building in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Quarter" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="French Quarter">French Quarter</a>. With the transfer of all of his recordings to the foundation he assured that the music would continue to survive and his legacy will continue to influence the city and the world.</div>
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<cite style="font-style: normal;">—George H. Buck</cite></div>
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<b>Companies founded by Buck</b></div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazzology_Records" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Jazzology Records">Jazzology Records</a> (founded 1949) — traditional Chicago style jazz</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazzology_Records" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Jazzology Records">G.H.B. Records</a> — traditional New Orleans style jazz</li>
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<b>Companies acquired by Buck</b></div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Music_Records" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="American Music Records">American Music Records</a> (founded 1944) — authentic New Orleans style jazz, acquired from founder and composer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Russell_(composer)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Bill Russell (composer)">Bill Russell</a> in 1990</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Swan_Records" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Black Swan Records">Black Swan Records</a> (founded 1921) — re-issues of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Records" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Paramount Records">Paramount Records</a>, acquired in the 1990s</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Solo Art Records — piano jazz</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audiophile_Records" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Audiophile Records">Audiophile Records</a> — classic American popular songs</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_Records" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Circle Records">Circle Records</a> (founded 1946) — big bands, acquired in the 1960s</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southland_Records" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Southland Records">Southland Records</a> (founded 1948) — authentic blues, acquired from its founder, Joseph P. Mares (1908–1991), in the 1960s</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Records" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Progressive Records">Progressive Records</a> (founded 1950) — modern music</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Broadcasting_System,_Inc." style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="World Broadcasting System, Inc.">World Broadcasting System, Inc.</a> (founded 1929) — entire library of radio <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription_discs" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Transcription discs">transcription discs</a>, acquired in 1971</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langlois_%26_Wentworth,_Inc." style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Langlois & Wentworth, Inc.">Langlois & Wentworth, Inc.</a> (founded 1933) — entire library of radio <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription_discs" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Transcription discs">transcription discs</a>, acquired in 1982</li>
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<b>Philanthropy founded by Buck</b></div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">The George H. Buck, Jr., Jazz Foundation, Inc. (founded 1987), a Louisiana non-profit entity.</li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jamie and I had a blast talking about the blues; I do not know that much about the blues but I am learning all the time about it's rich history and there is no better place to learn it's history that right here in New Orleans. David went downstairs as we interviewed and listened to WHAT ELSE, a live band playing dixieland jazz on Decatur Street, what more fitting than that to have playing in the background of a radio/video interview. WOW MAGIC !!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then on the NOMA at NOLA. New Orleans Museum of Art after a wonderful lunch at MONA's. I had the Sharma, it was one of the best lunches ever. I was with my friend David and New Orleans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">July 3rd continued </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Once in a lifetime you can hear greats of music at one location, given that fortunately the artists are all still alive and not passed on. I had heard from some friends about a place that you have to stand in line for what seems a long time, there is no beverages in this place and there is no bathroom nor seating for general admission. Preservation Hall is such a place. This is where my bashing stops and the true essence of the story takes place. Located at 726 Saint Peter Street in downtown NOLA, (504) 522-2841, down the street from Pat O'Briens, lies this hall of history in the making. Tickets 20$ a piece and no bathrooms ? What kind of place is this ? and then the lights dimmed. David and I were not uncomfortable because David got us two seats (quick thinking on his part), AND then the unthinkable happened, 7 men came to this cramped stage with the old blues piano I'd seen from prior pictures located on the right. AND THEN THEY PLAYED. It was over before I knew it, the best New Orleans sounding Blues and Jazz ever to have graced my ears. Daniel "Weenie" Farrow played the best sounding tenor sax I'd ever heard. I almost cried with unbelief of how sweet this sound sounded. Here is a brief bio borrowed from the Preservation Hall website about Daniel (Danny Farrow) </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #fff3db; color: #29303b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif;">One of the more beautiful experiences of last week’s tour with PHJB and My Morning Jacket- In Charlie Gabriel’s absence, Preservation Hall’s treasured tenor sax player Daniel “Weenie” Farrow stepped in and joined the tour for a couple of dates. During a post-show hangout at an old mill turned bar in St. Augustine, MMJ frontman Jim James asked about Weenie, as they had met and played together during the Preservation Album sessions. After kind words exchanged about Mr. Farrow, we mentioned that Weenie often plays an unforgettable solo of “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” at the Hall. No matter how many times you hear him play it you have to stop everything to listen. </span><br style="background-color: #fff3db; color: #29303b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: #fff3db; color: #29303b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: #fff3db; color: #29303b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif;">So the next day after soundcheck before the show in Charleston, Weenie and Jim re-introduce themselves, and Mr. Farrow plays a couple of choruses of the song. Jim smiles and asks him if he would be interested in playing it again before their encore at the end of the show. Mr. Farrow kindly agrees, and says “I’m gonna put it on ‘em tonight”. </span><br style="background-color: #fff3db; color: #29303b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: #fff3db; color: #29303b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: #fff3db; color: #29303b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif;">After an incredible opening set by PHJB and a stellar performance by MMJ all the stage lights go out and the crowd is roaring for an encore. The stage manager leads Weenie up the ramp and onto the stage with a flashlight. The crowd is still cheering, not knowing what is going to happen next. A spotlight opens up and focuses and the fog machines kick in and Weenie begins playing “Somewhere Over The Rainbow”. As soon as he gets through the first chorus much of crowd moves to relative silence. By the second chorus, you could hear people singing along. By the final flourish, you heard the applause and screams of two-thousand plus people cheering for Mr. Farrow and that HAWWWWW you can only hear at a rock concert. Weenie took a bow and stepped offstage. I say to Mr. Farrow “Weenie! You’re a rockstar!”. Weenie replies with a smile and asks if it sounded okay. All I could do is give him a hug.</span><br style="background-color: #fff3db; color: #29303b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: #fff3db; color: #29303b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: #fff3db; color: #29303b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif;">About a half-hour later, Weenie walked to the tour bus carrying his sax and was approached by a couple of young female MMJ fans. They asked for a picture with him. After the photo, he steps on to the bus and stashes away his horn and says “I can’t wait to tell Steve(Pistorious, piano player at the Hall) I was a rockstar.”</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #fff3db; color: #29303b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif;">If you’ve ever met Daniel “Weenie” Farrow, you’ll know you won’t ever meet a kinder, sweeter, and enlightened individual. You can feel his joy for life whenever he plays his horn or whenever you shake his hand and ask him how everythings going. He always says “it’s good when the music makes people happy. And that makes you feel good too.” Well you put it on’ em that night Weenie. Just like you do every week at the Hall.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">JULY 4th 2015 (Saturday)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">David took me to MORNING CALL at Cafe Ole in NO City Park early enough for coffee, as we approached, I heard it. It was melodic and beautiful but could not make out if it was recorded music or live. There I met one of the most wonderful ladies to ever grace any stage of blues or jazz. Enter one Valerie Sassyfras, a fancy dressed woman, I thought certainly was a comic but when I saw her play, comedy turned to serious and again unbelief. She was playing the keyboard and accordion at the same time with a cymbal on her shoe for keeping time. When I heard her play the mandolin and play other instruments at the same time, professionalism came to mind. Street entertainer ? Not hardly she is a one woman show with style and awesome ability. I tipped her jar and bought a cd, promised her shout out on GMP & A blog but it was me that was honored to have her on here not me on hers. Her ability to play the key board and accordion at the same time while singing beautifully New Orleans Woman, was stunning to say the least. Even several days ago, I can't believe what I saw. She has her own web site <a href="http://valeriesassyfras.com/">http://valeriesassyfras.com/</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Please visit her page and watch her videos you will be floored to see what she can do. The "WHERE Y'AT" magazine for March 2015, said it best "Valerie Sassyfras" embodies the perfect blend of musical ability and eccentricity. She is classically trained on piano BUT plays the other mentioned instruments including the "washboard", which live, that may have been my first. I have the article and can make anyone a copy at your request. Valerie can be contacted at her website and I don't think she'd be upset if I made mention that she has a face book page as well. I loved your show Valerie and I am so very proud you are my friend. See you when I head back to NOMA at NOLA. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">David and I decided to catch the street car and travel. From one end of NOLA to the other it was past fun. Once we arrived in the French Quarter (where we were yesterday) and I had the interview with Jamie Wight; we at where else at the French Market where I saw my friend Sugar Bear and his band (where we'd heard him last October 2014) and had my favorite lunch muffaletta. OH ME it was so good. Toasted lightly bread with meat and cheese and olive sauce. WOAH ! David and I had made arrangements to ride the street car back to the park, go to the dorm crash and then head to the fireworks and the "battle of the barges". I'd never heard of "Battle of the Barges" but it sounded like a great fireworks show.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">David and I headed back to the street car and headed down town, we arrived early because the Essence Music Festival was at the Convention Center and Superdome and I didn't want to miss a great spot. Once we arrived on the river walk David suggested we take the ferry and go across the river to Algiers. We did. They were already starting to shoot fireworks and the view from across the river to the other side looking at NOLA was insane. I'd only seen it from one angle and now to see it from the other side was awesome. We stayed and took the ferry back over to the city side, where we found great seats to watch one of the best fireworks that I've ever seen, including but not limited to the one I used to think was really great in Thomasville, Ga. This one ? well lets just say the city of New Orleans pulled out all stops to make everyone there realize that New Orleans is back on the map and fighting as hard as she can to get you to come back to see and visit her. I will. The BATTLE OF THE BARGES is this. In syncopation, what one barge sends up on the left at one end of the river the other one does on the right simultaneously, and it was very impressive and no doubt something you'd want in your memory the rest of your life. Once we were finished I had my own tasted of Mardi Gras as there were about a million people leaving all at the same time. Stopping street cars from moving meant I was going to have to "foot it", but it was a great show and worth it. I sure was glad to see the street car coming after the mile and a half hike. No one rocked me to sleep, I fell right off into slumber land. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A great worship experience with God, my son and music. His friends made me welcome but more over they love him and I am overwhelmed that they do. Lunch afterwards of the best bread pudding ever and pork loin that was better than any restaurant in New Orleans. My weekend would not have been complete without going to a place David wanted to go all weekend to get "gelato" I didn't know what that was but OHHHHHH me, when I was introduced it was stunning. Brocato's ice cream shop (see below is past awesome) for a diabetic, I'll admit it was challenging to stop at one small bowl but oh me it was past good. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm thinking that my trip thus far was a dream it went over so well so far, I was missing David already and I'd not left yet. I'd missed New Orleans and her music and food already and I'd not left yet. I however was going to make the best of the last night for a while; David took me to Dat Dog on Frenchman close to Frenchmen and Royal. The Louisianan smoked sausage dog was delicious and better than the gator dog that I'd had at another Dat Dog last year. It might have been the music, for you see walking down Frenchmen to get to the restaurant there was literately music every second door. I want to go into every bar, and if I could have stood the smoke I would have. Palmetto Bug was playing at the DBA and they caught my ear as I passed, stopped heard the end of their set and headed back to the truck to head home.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I woke up packed and got ready to head back to Alabama, reluctant to leave David and New Orleans as I DID NOT WANT TO LEAVE. The 5 hour trip is worth it, especially if you see "WELCOME TO NEW ORLEANS" out of your front glass. </span>Gamble Music Production and Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02799870535857174447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4291668056904324632.post-47168742354075103862015-02-07T20:50:00.001-08:002015-03-03T19:41:00.383-08:00Music In Minneapolis, Minnesota <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On the way to Minnesota we stopped only a few times. One of the first stops for Myrtle (Gene's dog and us) to use the bathroom, was this stop in Athens, Alabama (I'd always wanted to go there, being born in Athens, Greece). However the reason for this picture is to the left is "The Village" located at 1298 Kelli Drive off highway 65 exit 351, there was at "The Village" old log cabins, from them I heard bluegrass music. It was to cool. Clark's Restaurant is located by the log cabins.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;">To the right is Cherry Valley, IL. The snow bank is what caught my eye on this one. The town looks just like Pigeon Force, Tn. (I'll expound in a moment), (The picture to the right is four weeks prior to the ones below took "four weeks later", notice how much snow can make the difference in Cherry Valley Illinois in a matter of 4 weeks). Below is a log cabin and in the back yard is a creek and railroad trestle. Very quaint little town.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6000003814697px;">The village of Cherry Valley, Illinois is located just to the southeast of Rockford, Il. It's desirable quaint village almost is designed like Pigeon Forge, Tenn but if you want that "take me back to the days of nostalgia" and you are in Cherry Valley it would be worth your while to stop by and have a cup of coffee at their cafe or walk down the street with your cup in hand and see the church building now historical society meeting place (pictured below) or walk across the street and look at the quaint log cabin with the creek flowing in the back yard of the cabin. While walking and taking the pictures I had my ipod ear phones playing a few pieces of Skaroulis, Coda and Tim Heintz. My experience was off the charts. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6000003814697px;">I could imagine the train coming in across the trestle and smoke rolling out of the stack while coming into town and slowing down just a little for the engineer to wave at the people in the log cabin. It didn't happen like that but again in my mind it did; it was just enough to make the music in my ear pieces and the thought in my mind and the coffee I had in my other hand an absolute breathtaking experience. Thanks to the Society of Cherry Valley for whatever they did to make my fantasy of yesteryear become reality for just a few moments.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6000003814697px;">806 E. State Street </span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6000003814697px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6000003814697px;">Cherry Valley, IL 61016 </span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6000003814697px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6000003814697px;">Ph: 815.332.3441 </span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6000003814697px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6000003814697px;">Fax: 815.332.3414</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;">Arye Boutwell (Days Inn, Clarksville) made sure our stay was a very pleasant one. He works all the time; he checked us in when we arrived to Clarksville, Tenn. (around 7 PM, I'd been driving for like 9 1/2 hours in the snow, sleet and frozen roads, and he had enough time to make sure Gene and I were taken care of getting in our room without obstacles and was there the next morning to make sure the breakfast bar was stocked for a great breakfast. His grandmother is in Phoenix City, Al and will soon be going there to celebrate her birthday. I hope Alabama is as kind to him as he was to us. Thanks Arye. Oh, he listens to WSGQ Internet Radio too !!!! www.wsgq.net (upper right corner pick the word "RADIO" and click the play button). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Minneapolis, there is a place called "CHEAPO" it is not only one of the largest record stores I've ever seen but Branden there helped me by telling me that he did have music of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra and would have them ready at the counter when I arrived. He and the staff were wonderful and treated me like I was family. I called about 5 record stores in Minneapolis and none carried "classical" music, not even Minneapolis Symphony cds. However when Branden took my call he helped me make sure I was taken care of. Cheapo is located at 1300 West Lake Street (612) 827-8238</span><br />
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When Gene Montgomery played organ in Minneapolis, one of the churches was here at Minnehaha UMC <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the far background are the puffs of smoke. The right one is GP in Cedar Springs and the left one (I believe is Farley Nuclear Plant) I took these while listening to Lang Lang playing Chopin pieces. It was very fitting. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While at CHEAPO music store, I met a delightful person, Donald Ulm (last name pronounced OLM as in "OLD" long "OL" sound), anyway he was at the store and since I was inquiring about classical music, Branden the counter person introduced us. Donald was born in 1940 and graduated from high school in 1959. He was an organist throughout downtown Minneapolis churches. He's played in New York, California, and even overseas. I will be doing an interview for WSGQ internet radio when I fly back on the 27th of Feb. </span></div>
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Gamble Music Production and Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02799870535857174447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4291668056904324632.post-26284879579088408202014-10-08T17:21:00.002-07:002015-12-30T18:38:18.693-08:00NEW ORLEANS NOT HIDDEN ALL YOU HAVE DO IS ASK FOR THE MUSIC (NOBTS and French Market) 2014Today up at 6 AM gassed, oil changed, bank, headed to New Orleans to spend time with David BUT to also reseach<br />
1. Ties from old testament and new testament church music (worship music)<br />
2. Ties from African tribal music (coming in to New Orleans 1700, and how that transitioned into classical, early jazz and zydeco music).<br />
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First at NOBTS (New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary), Wednesday Oct. 8th, Contacted Eric head of the research dept of special collections at library@nobts.edu <br />
My friend Harry Eskew the author of Singing with Understanding also presented some cassettes of lectures he had given sometime in the 36 year time frame as professor of music at NOBTS, I am trying to get copies of those using David's computer with AUDACITY attached.<br />
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<span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NOBTS Music Library, Eric Benoy was here and made
sure that I had all of Dr. Harry Lee Eskew's cassettes, books he'd written and
even a vhs tape of a NOBTS Chapel service from 1999. I was so pleased that just
because I am dad to a student here they treated me so very well and with open
hospitality. I was really enthused when
Eric came to my aid when one of the cassettes were marked incorrectly and he
went in just a few minutes and found the correct tape. I showed Eric what it
was I was doing (taking AUDACITY and play the cassette and transferred it from
cassette player to computer). I promised him I'd make him a set of copies and
put it on cd and send it to his attention.
I slept in late about 12:00 David came back from class, we ate lunch and
I headed to the library, as I said everything was already laid out for me to
begin my research. Dr. Eskew's knowledge of hymnology should answer some, if
not all my questions about the transition of music from old to new testament,
whether it is sacred or secular. I can
not help but think the people that Harry Eskew had come in contact with, and
now passed on, their spirit helped me with finding just the right thing to pass
on to you. The right thing being
"interesting and mind blowing facts about music". When I return to Alabama I will be a changed
man, having sunk myself into the marvel minds of the early 19th century. There
are to many to tell about here. Dr.
Eskew's book (his book entitled The Life and Work of William Walker) is so rich
of history from a lifetime when life was simple and not rushed. When learning
history was a pleasure and not a task. It is with that I start this portion of
my search for NOBTS Sacred Music. Not
published in book form (the only copy I know is at the NOBTS Music Library) and
it's in their special collections is his William Walker reserach book. This was
actually his thesis examination given to him on April 26, 1960. I can not make out all the names of the
professors that signed off on his thesis but I'll try to list them. Dr. Claude H. Rhea Jr., Beatrice Collins, Frances
Brown, Joan Godsey, Clifford E. Tucker, Gantes L. Stephens, Wallace C. Mckenzie
and Dr. W. Plunkett Martin. Dr. Martin
is referecned many times in the acknowledgements and thank you pages. There is so much information about the book
alone but I'd be remiss if I didn't take time to say that he is acredited to
composed and logged in about 1250 songs into his 1835 Southern Harmony, 1845
Southern & Western Pocket Harmonist, 1866 Christian Harmony and childrens
song book 1869 Fruit and Flowers. One word, incredible. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shape-Note Hymnody in the Shenandoah Valley
1816-1860 is another gem of Dr. Eskew’s brilliant mind. This extensive study is
a result of many years of research set in another book that I don’t think was
published per say where on can get a copy of it, the only copy I know of is
here at the NOBTS special collections. I
marvel at the research that he has done to keep this art of scared harp music
alive for many years. His dissertation was submitted to the Dept of Music at
the Uni of Tulane April 1966, Gilbert Chase, chairman and Peter S. Hensen and
Robert Preston signed off on his dissertation. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His research begins with the Pilgrams coming from
Amsterdam to Plymoth Rock in 1607. The Shenandoah Valley of Virginia is an area
of prime importance in the transfer of the center of activity of the American
singing-school movement from New England to the South and West, beginning as
early as 1790 and reaching fruition by the third decade of the 19<sup>th</sup>
century. This series of Shenandoah Valley publications began in 1816, and maybe
as earlier as 1813) with Ananias Davisson’s (born 2/2/1780, first stated
printing music around 1816) Kentucky Harmony and closed in 1860 with the 10<sup>th</sup>
edition of Joseph Funk’s Harmonia Sacre. Various spellings (Rockingham Deed
Books) show Ananias Davis, Ananias Davidson. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Music of the North American Nation1780 to 1820, Hymnology in the Service of the
Church, Church Music in Baptist History, Singing with Understanding and the
before talked about Life of William Walker.</span></span></div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(There%27ll_Be_Bluebirds_Over)_The_White_Cliffs_of_Dover" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover">(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover</a>" - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Dorsey" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Jimmy Dorsey">Jimmy Dorsey</a> & His Orchestra (1942)</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate_The_Positive" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive">Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive</a>" - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mercer" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Johnny Mercer">Johnny Mercer</a> (1944)</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">“<a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Be_Careful,_It%27s_My_Heart&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background: none; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Be Careful, It's My Heart (page does not exist)">Be Careful, It's My Heart</a>” - Composer: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Berlin" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Irving Berlin">Irving Berlin</a> - From: Movie <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holiday_Inn" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Holiday Inn">Holiday Inn</a> (1942)</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogie_Woogie_Bugle_Boy" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy">Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy</a>" - <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrews_Sisters" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Andrews Sisters">Andrews Sisters</a> (1941)”</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comin%27_In_On_A_Wing_And_A_Prayer&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background: none; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Comin' In On A Wing And A Prayer (page does not exist)">Comin' In On A Wing And A Prayer</a>" - The Song Spinners</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Fuehrer%27s_Face" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Der Fuehrer's Face">Der Fuehrer's Face</a>" - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Jones" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Spike Jones">Spike Jones</a> and his City Slickers (1943)</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Remember Pearl Harbor" - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammy_Kaye" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Sammy Kaye">Sammy Kaye</a> (1942)</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Fence_Me_In_(song)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Don't Fence Me In (song)">Don't Fence Me In</a>" - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_Crosby" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Bing Crosby">Bing Crosby</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andrews_Sisters" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="The Andrews Sisters">The Andrews Sisters</a> (Cover)</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Get_Around_Much_Anymore" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Don't Get Around Much Anymore">Don't Get Around Much Anymore</a> (Never No Lament)" - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ellington" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Duke Ellington">Duke Ellington</a> & His Orchestra</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Sit_Under_The_Apple_Tree" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree">Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree</a> (With Anyone Else But Me) - Composer: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew_Brown" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Lew Brown">Lew Brown</a>, <a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sam._H._Stept&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background: none; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Sam. H. Stept (page does not exist)">Sam. H. Stept</a>, and <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Tobias" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Charlie Tobias">Charlie Tobias</a> (1942)</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ev%27ry_Time_We_Say_Goodbye" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye">Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye</a> - Composer: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cole_Porter" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Cole Porter">Cole Porter</a> - From: Musical "<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Lively_Arts" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Seven Lively Arts">Seven Lively Arts</a>" (1944)</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"G.I. Jive" - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mercer" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Johnny Mercer">Johnny Mercer</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Don%27t_Want_To_Walk_Without_You" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="I Don't Want To Walk Without You">I Don't Want To Walk Without You</a>" - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_James" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Harry James">Harry James</a> & His Orchestra Composer: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Loesser" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Frank Loesser">Frank Loesser</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jule_Styne" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Jule Styne">Jule Styne</a> - From: Movie <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweater_Girl_(film)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Sweater Girl (film)">Sweater Girl</a></i> (1942), performed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Jane_Rhodes" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Betty Jane Rhodes">Betty Jane Rhodes</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"I Wonder" - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Armstrong" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Louis Armstrong">Louis Armstrong</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">I'll Be Seeing You - The Ink Spots/<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_Crosby" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Bing Crosby">Bing Crosby</a> Words by Irving Kahal, music by Sammy Fain</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You)" - <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ink_Spots" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Ink Spots">Ink Spots</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27ll_Walk_Alone" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="I'll Walk Alone">I'll Walk Alone</a>" - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Tilton" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Martha Tilton">Martha Tilton</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"It's Been A Long, Long Time" - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_James" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Harry James">Harry James</a> & His Orchestra</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Ago_(And_Far_Away)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Long Ago (And Far Away)">Long Ago (And Far Away)</a>" - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Stafford" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Jo Stafford">Jo Stafford</a> Composer: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Gershwin" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Ira Gershwin">Ira Gershwin</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Kern" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Jerome Kern">Jerome Kern</a> - From: Musical "<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_Girl" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Cover Girl">Cover Girl</a>" (1944)</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">”<a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kiss_The_Boys_Goodbye&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background: none; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Kiss The Boys Goodbye (page does not exist)">Kiss The Boys Goodbye</a>” - Composer: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Loesser" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Frank Loesser">Frank Loesser</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Schertzinger" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Victor Schertzinger">Victor Schertzinger</a> - From: Movie "<a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kiss_The_Boys_Goodbye&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background: none; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Kiss The Boys Goodbye (page does not exist)">Kiss The Boys Goodbye</a>" (1941)</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praise_the_Lord_and_Pass_the_Ammunition" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition">Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition</a>" - Composer: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Loesser" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Frank Loesser">Frank Loesser</a> (1942)</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentimental_Journey_(song)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Sentimental Journey (song)">Sentimental Journey</a>" - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Brown_(bandleader)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Les Brown (bandleader)">Les Brown</a> & His Orchestra; Composer: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Green" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Bud Green">Bud Green</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Brown_(bandleader)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Les Brown (bandleader)">Les Brown</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Homer" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Ben Homer">Ben Homer</a> – (1944)</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Till_Then_(1944_song)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Till Then (1944 song)">Till Then</a>" - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mills_Brothers" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Mills Brothers">Mills Brothers</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Waitin' For The Train To Come In" - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Lee" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Peggy Lee">Peggy Lee</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"When The Lights Go On Again (All Over The World)" - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaughn_Monroe" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Vaughn Monroe">Vaughn Monroe</a> & His Orchestra (1943)</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27d_Be_So_Nice_To_Come_Home_To" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To">You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To</a> - Composer: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cole_Porter" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Cole Porter">Cole Porter</a> - From: Musical "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_to_Shout_About_(film)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Something to Shout About (film)">Something To Shout About</a>" – (1942)</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Yours" - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Dorsey" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Jimmy Dorsey">Jimmy Dorsey</a> & His Orchestra</li>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Darrel "Sugar Bear" Francis Quartet, or The Jazz Cats, consisted of Darrel himself, Steve Allen on sax, Julian Garcia and Eric Robinson. As I walked up and down the streets of the French Quarter and was introduced to different people, items of musical interest and musical historical stories that I will try to compile for you here on this music blog, David and I walked past and came back to eat lunch at the Market Cafe not just for the food but the music took my breath away. This man could sing really good. I guess Darrel is in his early 60's or mid 50's (forgive me if I am wrong Darrel) and his playing gave me the impression that he'd been doing it for a LONG time. A friend of his (now passed away is David Armstrong. David and he played in Dothan and played other places, there was to little time to do a full interview with him. Perhaps later. What I did get, is that he'd been playing for a long time and he loves jazz and playing the blues. Once he was asked what kind of music do you like to play, his answer "Some folks like to hear "Sugar Bear" some like to hear Darrel Francis", when asked what did he mean by that, he replied "some people want to get "loose" in their toe taping and humming along, that is "the sugar bear", some want the sophisticated style of Darrel Francis (in a three piece tux playing the blues or light jazz". For me ? I loved the laid back style of the Sugar Bear. I will let you know what I find out about David Armstrong's wife Zoey whom still lives in Dothan. She should not be to hard to find for this probing musicologist. As for Darrel, I have sent him an email approving a few songs from his "New Orleans Too" cd to entice you to get a copy of his cd for yourself. They are past great. </span></div>
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<br />Gamble Music Production and Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02799870535857174447noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4291668056904324632.post-20792068302626524452014-05-25T16:41:00.003-07:002014-05-25T16:43:20.905-07:00George Skaroulis / Gamble Music Production and Archive<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">George Skaroulis was driving back from Panama City Beach, Florida one week day in about 2004, when he called me to thank me for my call to him several days prior. I'd just listened to Se Ymnumen (pronounced say' new man), I feature it on another page of this blog, I simply fell in love with the song and being a musicologist and knowing what music moves my innermost thoughts and feelings, I fell in love too; the music George Skaroulis. To date he has credited to his discography 16 discs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1) Passions 2) Sanctuary 3) Imagine 4) The Divinity of Dogs 5) Songs for Sophie 6) Season Transactions 7) Reunion 8) Forever Young 9) Second Nature</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">10) Athena 11) Return to Homeland 12) Generations 13) Holiday Collection </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">14) Numinous 15) Homeland 16) Essence (Guided Meditation) 17) Adagio </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the music world that I live in, quickly I gave my friends info on this new to me composer, and soon, it did not take long for them to fall in love with his music as well. WOW, what a great and prolific composer and artist. As one of his promoters in Alabama, I could never think of a better composer that I'd rater have the pleasure of introducing his music. Se Ymnumen is always going to be one of my favorites, it's what introduced me to a great composer. Enjoy: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><span class="color_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As a teenager, George followed the footsteps of his Greek grandfather and had a rewarding career in the restaurant industry. He studied culinary arts, and eventually spent over 20 years in the restaurant business. Privately, he continued to play piano and eventually compose and create his own songs. After moving to Atlanta, he had an opportunity to record his debut album Homeland in 1996. It was then that George’s independent record label Evzone Music was born. His soothing style and flowing melodies struck a chord with massage therapists, Yoga instructors, spas and the healing arts. </span></span></div>
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<span class="color_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After releasing 4 albums, George decided to put his restaurant career on the back burner, and took a leap of faith to pursue his passion for music full time. Since then George has recorded 16 albums including <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Homeland, Numinous, Season Traditions, Athena, Generations, Second Nature, Return to Homeland, Snow, Forever Young, Adagio: the music of Chris Spheeris, Sanctuary, Reunion , Imagine</em>, and <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Songs for Sophie</em>. In addition, George has released two sheet music books of his original compositions.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><span class="color_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Even animals have a positive response to George’s music. When the training and behavior coordinator of the Atlanta Humane Society began using George’s soothing piano music to relax anxious dogs in their kennels overnight, the calming results were remarkable. George organized several successful fundraisers to benefit the group and was soon named the Humane Society’s official musician in Atlanta.<br /><br />Recently, George's CD soundtrack, “T<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">he Divinity of Dogs- Music to Calm Dogs and the People Who Love Them</em>” hit the #3 spot on Amazon's Hot New Age Release chart. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="color_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">George’s music has also been featured in several nationally aired PBS documentaries, and can be heard on: Music Choice, Sirius Satellite Radio, Martha Stewart Living Radio and NPR. George's Christmas album Season Traditions won Best Holiday Album of 2011 by solopiano.com He generously has performed benefit concerts for nonprofits including Haiti Disaster Relief, Tsunami Relief, Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention, as well as the Humane Society, the American Cancer Society and AIDS research.</span><br /><br /><span class="color_14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="color_5" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New, Now, Next:</span></strong></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Montgomery has been blessed by the arts, and in the case of the choral arts, it has been especially blessed to receive 40 years of professional quality music from the Montgomery Chorale, one of the city’s oldest musical performing arts organization and its official performing choral group. The Chorale has made a significant contribution to the musical enrichment of the community.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The Chorale’s dedication to presenting professional quality choral performances and its requirement that all members must audition in order to participate have helped produce a musically compatible blend of voices at ease with any musical composition from Beethoven to Berlin.</span></div>
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<span class="style_1" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;">For all of its national and international accomplishments, the Chorale’s first priority is the citizens of Montgomery and the surrounding region, and it has been involved in a broad range of community events, including Jubilee Weekend, the Christmas Light Show at the Montgomery Zoo, Festival in the Park, Zoo Weekend, and in working jointly in concerts with other arts organizations, including the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra, whose members frequently accompany Chorale concerts, the Alabama Dance Theater, and the Montgomery Ballet.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">In 2000, she earned a Master of Music Degree in Organ Performance and Choral Conducting at the University of Alabama, studying with Warren Hutton and Sandra Willetts. Prior to studying in Tuscaloosa, she had served at Ascension since 1984 as both Organist and Choir Director. Her under-graduate degree is in Music Education from Florida State University.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">B</span><span style="background-color: white;">ecky's musical background is varied, including her two-year tenure as the initial director (and current board member) of the Montgomery-based Alabama Institute for Education in the Arts, which trains teachers in discipline-based arts education. She has taught music at both The Montgomery Academy and Saint James School. In addition to teaching summer programs and working with Jubilee and Children's Theatre for the City of Montgomery, she was founding director of the Montgomery Area Girls' Chorus. She has performed with the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and the Montgomery Symphony, among numerous performances as solo performer, accompanist, and conductor.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Becky served as accompanist for many years for the Montgomery Chorale and served as interim-director for the 1998-1999 season. She has been musical director for the Jasmine Hills Arts Council, helping to direct and produce five shows. While in Tuscaloosa, she was the organist at Christ Episcopal Church and was invited to prepare the choruses for the world premiere of a work written to celebrate the birthday of Martin Luther King by internationally recognized composer Gunther Schüller. She currently serves as Sub-Dean of the Montgomery Chapter of the American Guild of Organists and serves in the Department of Liturgy and Music for the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama.</span></div>
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<b>The Atlanta Baroque Orchestra</b> (<b>ABO</b>), founded in 1997 in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Atlanta">Atlanta, Georgia</a>, is the first and oldest professional <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_orchestra" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Symphony orchestra">orchestra</a> in the Southeastern United States of America dedicated to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historically_informed_performance" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Historically informed performance">historically informed performance</a>, (also called "authentic performance practice") of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque_music" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Baroque music">music from the Baroque era</a> on <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Period_instruments" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Period instruments">period instruments</a>. The Atlanta Baroque Orchestra gave its premiere concert in January, 1998. The first Director of the ABO was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lute" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Lute">lute</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theorbo" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Theorbo">theorbo</a> player Lyle Nordstrom, who departed in 2003. As several guest directors were brought in for concerts, John Hsu, noted performer on the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_da_gamba" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Viola da gamba">viola da gamba</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryton" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Baryton">baryton</a>, took the title of Artistic Advisor, becoming Artistic Director in July 2004; he continued through the 2008-2009 season. From 2004 through 2011, the Resident Director was founding member Daniel Pyle, harpsichordist and organist, and also Instructor of Music at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton_State_University" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Clayton State University">Clayton State University</a> and Organist and Choir Director at the Anglican Church of Our Saviour in Atlanta. Violinist, dancer and choreographer Julie Andrijeski became Artistic Director in February, 2011.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Baroque_Orchestra#cite_note-1" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a></sup></div>
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The ABO usually performs four to six concerts per year, concentrating on orchestral works and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerto" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Concerto">concerti</a>, but often featuring <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamber_music" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Chamber music">chamber pieces</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantata" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Cantata">vocal cantatas</a>, and other works with vocal soloists. The range of works performed by the ABO stretches back to the beginnings of Baroque style around the year 1600, while their core repertoire is centered in music from many composers who worked in the Middle Baroque era of Pachelbel and Corelli (the late 1600s) and the High Baroque era of Vivaldi, Bach, Handel and Telemann (up through 1750). They have also performed the music of Mozart and Haydn, and the string symphonies of Mendelssohn from the 1820s.</div>
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Several concerts have featured the orchestra accompanying <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque_dance" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Baroque dance">Baroque dancers</a>. Most performers with the ABO are university instructors and professors with advanced degrees, and all are specialists in authentic performance practice, playing replicas of the actual instruments used in the Baroque era. Such an ensemble produces a sound that is quite different from that of ensembles that use modern orchestral instruments. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque_violin" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Baroque violin">Baroque violins</a>, violas and cellos use strings of sheep gut and bows of an earlier design, rather than the louder string instruments strung with steel strings played by conventional orchestras. Likewise, the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque_flute" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Baroque flute">Baroque flute</a> is made of wood and does not have keys, while the Baroque horn (often called the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_horn" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Natural horn">natural horn</a>) has no valves. Other instruments featured in a Baroque orchestra include the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpsichord" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Harpsichord">harpsichord</a> and <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lautenwerk" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Lautenwerk">lautenwerk</a>, viola da gamba and bass viol, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorder_(musical_instrument)" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Recorder (musical instrument)">recorder</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassoon" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Bassoon">Baroque bassoon</a>, lute and theorbo.</div>
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Because of the relatively small number of musicians who specialize in playing Baroque-era instruments, the ABO consists of a smaller core of regular musicians who live in the Atlanta area, supplemented for each concert by performers and featured soloists brought in from throughout the United States of America and occasionally from overseas.</div>
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Guest artists and directors have included leading Baroque and Classical-period performers: violinists Stanley Ritchie, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Huggett" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Monica Huggett">Monica Huggett</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergiu_Luca" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Sergiu Luca">Sergiu Luca</a>, and Dana Maiben; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_O%27Dette" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Paul O'Dette">Paul O'Dette</a>, lute; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldo_Abreu" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Aldo Abreu">Aldo Abreu</a>, recorder; soprano <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julianne_Baird" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Julianne Baird">Julianne Baird</a>; Stephen Rickards, countertenor; oboist Matthew Peaceman; and Baroque dancers Paige Whitley-Bauguess and Thomas Baird.</div>
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Signatory concerts of the ABO include the first performances in Atlanta on period instruments of:</div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="color: black;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivaldi" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Vivaldi">Vivaldi</a>'s <i>The Four Seasons</i> on September 27, 1998 at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton_State_University" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Clayton State University">Clayton State University</a>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spivey_Hall" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Spivey Hall">Spivey Hall</a>.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="color: black;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._S._Bach" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="J. S. Bach">J. S. Bach</a>'s <i>Passion according to St. John</i> on November 11, 2000 at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emory_University" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Emory University">Emory University</a></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="color: black;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handel" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Handel">Handel</a>'s <i>Messiah</i> on November 23, 2002</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc-Antoine_Charpentier" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Marc-Antoine Charpentier">Marc-Antoine Charpentier</a>'s <i>Te Deum</i> on November 16, 2001, using a new orchestration completed by musicologist Charles Brewer</span></li>
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and a year-long celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Mozart">Mozart</a> in 2006. In 2009, they devoted concerts to the symphonies of Haydn, celebrating the 300th anniversary of his birth.</div>
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In addition to its own concerts, the orchestra has performed in collaboration with other organizations throughout the Southeast, including at conferences of the National Flute Convention, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Musicological_Society" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="American Musicological Society">American Musicological Society</a>, and the Southeast Historical Keyboard Society. The ABO has performed on the campuses of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emory_University" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Emory University">Emory University</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Georgia" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="University of Georgia">University of Georgia</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_State_University" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Florida State University">Florida State University</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennesaw_State_University" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Kennesaw State University">Kennesaw State University</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton_College_and_State_University" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Clayton College and State University">Clayton College and State University</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oglethorpe_University" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Oglethorpe University">Oglethorpe University</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdosta_State_University" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Valdosta State University">Valdosta State University</a>. The ABO has performed in venues in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham,_Alabama" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Birmingham, Alabama">Birmingham, Alabama</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pensacola,_Florida" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Pensacola, Florida">Pensacola, Florida</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome,_Georgia" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Rome, Georgia">Rome, Georgia</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conyers,_Georgia" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Conyers, Georgia">Conyers, Georgia</a>. The orchestra has also partnered with choral organizations including the Emory Concert Choir, Atlanta Choral Artists, the Schola Cantorum of Atlanta, Clayton State Collegiate Chorale, Clayton Camerata, Dekalb Choral Guild, the Westminster Choir, Chandler Choraliers, and choirs from Peachtree Road United Methodist Church in Atlanta, Intown Community Church in Atlanta, and Independent Presbyterian Church, Birmingham, Alabama.</div>
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To date the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra has not released any recordings.</div>
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(borrowed from their website http://atlantabaroque.org/)</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">THE CONCERT </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">Bach - Mass in B minor / Montgomery Chorale, Atlanta Baroque Orchestra under the direction of Rebecca (Becky) Taylor. April 5th, 2014. Saint John Episcopal Church in Montgomery, Alabama. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">I drive up to Montgomery with my friend Gene to hear the Atlanta Baroque Symphony and the Montgomery Chorale under the direction of Becky Taylor and it was absolutely performed flawlessly. The Bach Mass in B minor starts in a minor key of B minor and increases in excitement and tension until it culminates into a B major ending. It is very eye opening and very moving. I wiped tears from my eyes many times at the beauty this piece brings and if it is done exceptionally well, as it was tonight. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">It started a little past 7 PM, as it was SOLD OUT and folks were still coming in at 7PM, but tickets being 50 and 25 dollars, people were able to come on in and experience this 3 hour concert. It was done in its entirety, wh</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">en some times parts are left out due to the very length of the piece. Becky (Rebecca Taylor) arm must have been sore after the beautiful and tranquil, yet energetic at times, because she never missed a beat. Her butterfly arm movements conducting and Chorale and the Symphony seemed as poetry in motion. I swear, if the Montgomery Advertiser does not give her, the Chorale and the ABS a flawless review, they should be horse whipped. Because my and everyone "bravo" and 5 minute plus standing ovation meant something. </span></div>
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">If you missed it, you missed a treat but perhaps I may oblige and offer a play by play dissertation as to what you missed. Once again an absolute great performance to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ by the hand of J.S. Bach and the again flawless epic ear candy provided by the Montgomery Chorale and the Atlanta Baroque Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Rebecca Taylor.</span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">First and Foremost - The ABSO used period instruments. Cat gut strings on the stringed instruments (meant adjusting several times throughout the concert and valveless brass wind instruments that needed (well lets just say the "spit" knocked out of them several times" Here is the review:</span></div>
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">The Mass in B minor - J.S. Bach</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Kyrie (Kyrie eleison) "Lord, have mercy" Chorus</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Christie "Christ, have mercy" duet sopranos Erin Joyce and Janet Gibson</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">*(Erin and Janet will be stars in a few years of opera or church worship music, both are excellent)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Kyrie "Lord, have mercy" Chorus</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Gloria "Glory to God in the highest" Chorus</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Laudamus te "We praise You" - aria soprano Janet Gibson</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Gratoas "We give you thanks" Chorus</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Domine Deus "Lord God, King of Heaven" duet soprano and tenor Turia Stark </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Williams and John Martin</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">*(Turia is a fine soprano, no flaws and projects very well. Ok, this tenor (John Martin) is fine, dare I say great. His angelic yet masculine voice is that of a young Paul Groves but is so strong, truly his voice is unbelievable, I almost want to jump the pew), WOW !! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Qui Tollis "Who takes the sins of the world" Chorus</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Qui sedes "Who sits at the right hand of God" aria alto Lauren Simpson</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">*(I most likely could hear Lauren sing all night long) Wow what a great alto voice, strong and delicate both at the same time.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Quoniam "For You alone are worthy" aria bass Bill Taylor</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">*(I've heard Bill sing many times and he's like wine or cheese, the older he gets the better his voice is, great flawless piece of music by Bill)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Cum Sancto "With the Holy Spirit in the glory of God the Father" </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Chorus</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Credo "I believe in one God" </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Chorus</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Patrem omnipotentem "the Father, the Almighty" </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Chorus</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Et in unnum "and in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only Son of God" duet soprano and alto Erica Jenkins and Lauren Simpson</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Et incarnatus "By the power of the Holy Spirit" </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Chorus</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Crucifixus "for our sake he was crucified" </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Chorus </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">>> INTERMISSION <<</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Et resurrexit "on the third day, He arose" </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Chorus</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Et in Spiritum "and I believe in the Holy Spirit" aria bass Bill Taylor </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Confiteor "I acknowledge one baptism" </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Chorus</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Sanctus "Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of Hosts" </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Chorus</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Osanna "Hosannah in the highest" </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Chorus</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Benedictus "Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord" aria tenor John Martin</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Osanna "</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Hosannah in the highest" </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Chorus</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Agnus Dei "Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world" aria alto Lauren Simpson</span></span><br />
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Acclaimed as “<b>a conductor you want to hear again and again</b>”,
Roberto Abbado’s crisp, dramatic music-making, instinctive lyricism and
evocative command of varied composers and styles have made him an esteemed
conductor among orchestras and opera companies today. He is both a
sophisticated and energetic conductor, which, combined with superb
communicative skills have made him a favourite among musicians and public
alike.In 2009 Mr. Abbado was honoured with the “Franco Abbiati” award of the
<b>National Association of Italian Music Critics </b>– Italy’s most prestigious
classical music award – as Conductor of the Year, “for the maturity of
interpretation and for his breadth and curiosity of repertoire, in which he has
delivered remarkable results and an intensity which was manifested in La
Clemenza di Tito by Mozart (Teatro Regio Torino) executed using classical
period performance practices; in the contemporary opera Phaedra by Hans Werner
Henze (Maggio Musicale Fiorentino); in Rossini’s Ermione (Rossini Opera
Festival, Pesaro); and for the rare Der Vampyr of Heinrich Marschner (Teatro
Comunale Bologna)”.A popular figure in the United States, Mr. Abbado’s most
extensive relationship is currently with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, where
he is an Artistic Partner, a position that has now been extended into an
unprecedented third three-year term. He has performed regularly with the
Atlanta and St. Louis symphony orchestras and has appeared often with the
<b>Boston Symphony Orchestra</b>, <b>Philadelphia Orchestra</b>, <b>Houston Symphony</b> and <b>San
Francisco Symphony</b>, as well as with <b>New York City’s Orchestra of St.
Luke’s</b>.Roberto Abbado began season 2012-13 with Mozart’s Don Giovanni at Bari’s
historic Teatro Petruzzelli staged by Mario Martone, followed by Ponchielli’s
La Gioconda at Rome’s Teatro dell’Opera in a new production by Pierluigi Pizzi.
He has opened the Verdi’s year with a new production of Macbeth by Bob Wilson
at Teatro Comunale in Bologna and then he took on tour to Hong Kong the Teatro
di San Carlo in Naples performing La Traviata staged by Ferzan Özpetek and an
all Verdi program. Mr. Abbado has also conducted a new production of Mozart’s
Così Fan Tutte staged by Davide Livermore at Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari.On the
concert platform he conducted, among others, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della
Rai (all Verdi program), Orchestra del Teatro Comunale in Bologna (Britten,
Lutoslawski and Dvořák), Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (Schubert, Mendelsshon,
Rossini), Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (Mozart, Strauss), San Francisco
Symphony Orchestra (Schumann, Fedele, Schubert).Roberto Abbado’s 2011-12 season
included a triumphal performance of Rossini’s La Donna del Lago at la Scala,
Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust staged by Terry Gilliam at Teatro Massimo in
Palermo and Donizetti’s Anna Bolena staged by Graham Vick at Maggio Musicale
Fiorentino. In 2012 Mr. Abbado was awarded again by the National Association of
Italian Music Critics with the Franco Abbiati Prize for Mosè in Egitto at the
Rossini Opera Festival as “Best performance and production”.Born into a dynastic
musical family, his grandfather was a famous pedagogue of violin, his father
was director of the Milan Conservatory, and uncle is Claudio Abbado, the
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Roberto Abbado studied with renowned conducting teacher
Franco Ferrara at Venice’s La Fenice and Rome’s Accademia Nazionale di Santa
Cecilia, where he was the only student in the the Accademia’s history to be
invited to conduct the Orchestra di Santa Cecilia. As Chief Conductor of the
Munich Radio Orchestra (1991-98) he made seven recordings with the orchestra,
and has worked extensively elsewhere in Europe including the Royal
Concertgebouww, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre de Paris, Dresden
Staatskapelle, Gewandhaus Orchester (Leipzieg), NDR Symphony Orchestra
(Hamburg), Vienna Symphony, Swedish Radio Symphony, and Israel Philarmonic
Orchestras. In his native Italy, he has particularly strong relationships with
the great orchestras, and regularly conducts the Filarmonica della Scala
(Milan), Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome), Orchestra
del Maggio Musicale (Florence) and the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI
(Torino).Mr. Abbado made his North American concert debut it 1991 with the
Orchestra of St. Luke’s at the Lincoln Center in New York. Since then he has
returned regularly conducting many top orchestras. As a gifted accompanist
conductor he collaborates with many of today’s most respected soloists
including violinists Joshua Bell, Sarah Chang, Kennedy, Midori, Vadim Repin,
Gil Shaham, and pianists Alfred Brendel, Yefim Bronfman, Lang Lang, Radu Lupu,
Andras Schiff, Mitsuko Uchida, Andre Watts, duo pianists Katia & Marielle
Labèque, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, to name but a few.Well known for his work in opera,
Mr. Abbado has led many new productions and world premieres, including Fedora
at the Metropolitan Opera (New York); I Vespri Siciliani at Vienna Staatsoper;
La Gioconda and Lucia di Lammermoor at Teatro alla Scala (Milan); L’Amour des
trois oranges, Aida and La Traviata for the Bayerische Staatsoper (Munich);
Simon Boccanegra and La Clemenza di Tito with the Teatro Regio di Torino; Le
Comte Ory, Attila, I Lombardi and Henze’s Phaedra at the Maggio Musicale
Fiorentino; La Donna del Lago at the Paris Opéra; Don Giovanni at the Deutsche
Oper (Berlin).Mr. Abbado is also well known as a passionate interpreter of
modern and contemporary music. As a natural advocate for Italian composers, he
frequently programs works by Luciano Berio, Bruno Maderna, and Goffredo
Petrassi, and contemporary Italians such as Sylvano Bussotti, Niccolò
Castiglioni, Azio Corghi, Ivan Fedele, Luca Francesconi, Giorgio Battistelli,
Michele Dall’Ongaro, Giacomo Manzoni, Salvatore Sciarrino, and notably Fabio
Vacchi, for whom Mr. Abbado conducted the world premiere of his new Teneke at Milan’s
Teatro alla Scala in 2007. Not limited to Italian contemporary music, he also
explores the music of French contemporary composers Pascal Dusapin, Henri
Dutilleux and Olivier Messiaen, Russian Alfred Schnittke, German Hans Werner
Henze and Helmut Lachenmann and, in part due to his extensive travels among
North American orchestras, an eclectic assortment of this continent’s living
composers from Ned Rorem to Christopher Rouse, Steven Stucky, Charles
Wuorinen.A prolific recording conductor, Mr. Abbado has made several recording
for BMG (RCA Red Seal) including award winning performances of Bellini’s I
Capuleti e i Montecchi (BBC Magazine “Pick of the Year 1999”) and Rossini’s
Tancredi (Echo Klassic Deutscher Schallplattenpreis 1997). He recorded a recital
disc of 19th century arias for Decca with tenor Juan Diego Flórez and the
Orchestra dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia, titled The Rubini Album, and most
recently a recital album titled Bel Canto with mezzo soprano Elīna Garanča, on
Deutsche Grammophon (Echo Klassic Deutscher Schallplattenpreis 2009).Other BMG
releases include Don Pasquale with Renato Bruson, Eva Mei, Frank Lopardo and
Thomas Allen; Turandot with Eva Martona, Ben Heppner and Margaret Price; and a
disc of ballet music from Verdi operas. He has also recorded the two Liszt
piano concerti with soloist Gerhard Oppitz; a collection of great tenor arias
with Ben Heppner and a CD of opera scenes with Carol Vaness, both with the
Münchner Rundfunkorchester. For Decca, he has recorded Verismo Arias with Mirella
Freni and for the Stradivarius Label two world premieres recordings by
contemporary Italian composer Luca Francesconi – Cobalt, Scarlet and Rest. On
DVD, Deutsche Grammophon has released Fedora with Mirella Freni and Placido
Domingo from the Metropolitan Opera New York; Dynamic has released Rossini
Ermione from the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro; and Hardy Classic Video the
New Year Concert 2008 from the Teatro La Fenice in Venice. The last releases in
2012 have been a DVD of Rossini’s Zelmira for Decca with Juan Diego Flórez,
Kate Aldrich and Gregory Kunde, and a DVD of Rossini’s Mosè in Egitto with
Sonia Ganassi, Dmitry Korchak, Riccardo Zanellato and Alex Esposito, staged by
Graham Vick, on Opus Arte.Mr. Abbado has led many orchestras in a number of
international tours; notably the Israel Philharmonic (Spain 2005), the Chamber
Orchestra of Europe (Europe 2006), the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra (Europe
2007), Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Enescu Festival, Bucharest 2009), the
Orchestra Verdi di Milano (Switzerland 2009). The Orchestre Philharmonique de
Monte-Carlo (Russia 2011) and the Boston Symphony Orchestra (USA East Coast
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">With my passion for classical music beginning in 1982 and stretching on into the 1990's so did my obsession with the world of OPERA !!!! I know it's not for everyone, it's an acquired taste and it gets a bad rap because people don't understand what is going on. For example, my first opera "Marriage of Figaro" by Mozart was on the radio and I had no idea what was going on. I loved the music and singing, the ranges of the tenor and soprano but as far as understanding the words, I could not. Even when I was taking music appreciation classes, I knew there was a libretto (book to follow by in English), but here is the kicker, once you listen to an opera (read the libretto as you follow), the next time you hear it (most of the songs are repetitive anyway), you kind of know what to expect and the more times you hear a certain opera the more the opera makes sense to you. This philosophy is also true with the arias (songs from opera) that are sung. If announced before an artist sings it (as to what aria they are about to sing), the whole scenario of: announcing the aria, singing it and it becoming the scene in the opera (that time frozen in story telling in song), you can be transported to that place in the opera, and yes, if it is a special opera, you can also be transported to that very night or afternoon you saw it live. It's a fascinating world of fantasy to escape the world problems for a couple of hours. I was already captivated with opera when I was in Thomasville, Georgia that one afternoon, I saw the poster. My friend Susan and I saw the poster and commented that we needed to come hear this lady sing. </span></i> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jack Hadley curator of the Black History Museum in Thomasville, Georgia (located at 214 Alexander Street in Thomasville) (229) 226-5029 received a call from me in about the later part of March to tell him a little about me in that, "I love opera" I collect autographs, etc.... So I explained I was coming this next weekend to Thomasville to tour the museum and would like to meet him. I did. I told him how I would love to meet Dr. Robinson after the performance and get her and Mrs. Adams' autograph. He said he believed he could arrange that. That Saturday night May 30th, my friends Susan, Iris and I heard piano pieces of Chopin played exquisitely by Agnes Adams, an absolute perfectionist when it comes to playing Chopin. She treated the piano with determination as she played flawless. Agnes and Marie's sister Dr. Rosa L. Hadley, was very instrumental in teaching the two siblings. Agnes the art of piano and Marie the art of music so she could progress into singing as a soprano in the world of opera.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After Agnes was through blowing our minds with the perfection she was displaying in music, then came her sister Marie. Oh my dear God, as He is alive on his throne, I'd never heard a soprano as lovely in my life as Dr. Marie Robinson. I'd collected music for years (25 +) and heard sopranos, altos, contraltos, mezzo-sopranos, every type of woman singer in the opera and this woman was good, great in fact, probably the best I'd ever heard. She sang some art songs and spiritual songs but when she sang the aria from TOSCA, I knew without a doubt she was one of the finest Tosca's I'd ever heard in my life. WOW, what a range. I would be very remiss if I didn't list several of Dr. Robinson's achievements and I borrowed from her website the write up about her life. Marie would later put these songs on her NEW album <span class="st">“<b>COME DOWN ANGELS</b>”. Art Songs and Spirituals. The cd is available and offered through the Jack Hadley Black Museum </span></span><br />
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<cite><span style="font-size: large;">There was an absolute aura hanging over that auditorium room when she finished with the opera arias and the art songs and spirituals. The room was mostly filled with Afro-American lovers of classical music, opera and or they were just there because they were life long friends of Agnes and Marie. I was proud to be in the class of the few light skinned people that were there. I felt really like the "big man" when Jack Hadley thanked many people for being there that historical night. So when he announced Scott Gamble an opera friend of Marie's I boasted my chest out and waved as I was some dignitary. I enjoyed the whole concert. It was almost over, and I had not made my mind up as to how I was going to get Marie's autograph (or for that fact Agnes's), then Jack announced there was going to be a reception in their honor. I knew this was my move. Before I leave with the rest of the story, that night May 30th 2009, as historical as I had made mention, it was indeed; both Agnes and Marie received keys to the city of Thomasville by the mayor of Thomasville and it was declared that the day of May 30th would be Adams/Robinson Day in the city of Thomasville, Georgia. WOW ! Congrats you two precious ladies !!!!</span></cite><br />
<cite><span style="font-size: large;">Well the Mayor shocked everyone with that announcement and there we were about the have the closing remarks and I still had not come up with an idea to get these two ladies autographs. So we adjourned and headed just to the back of the Thomasville Cultural Center (600 East Washington Street), there I met Dr. Marie Robinson "soprano" and Agnes Adams "pianist", we met and they carried on with me like I was a old buddy of theirs. Both ladies very refined in very way but just as down to earth as you can get. I got both of their autographs (both were honored to have me put them on my wall of 'famed' people). The wonderful thing that night Susan, Iris and myself we did not feel as there was a "black/white" thing going on, it was MUSIC, in any language it speaks to the soul far greater and any words could say. We were treated like royalty, even though Marie and Agnes were swamped with people, they allowed me to interrupt their time with friends and family and treat us just like we were part of their lives. Marie and I are still friends, I advocate her cd and encourage my followers to purchase one to support her career and profession, she is an awesome person, she doesn't let my harassing her seem to bother her at all and when you hear this woman sing, Oh my dear Father, you would think an angel was singing. Thanks Marie for opening your heart that night, you and your sister Agnes, both of you are precious and later I will post Rosa playing the piano on this website. That night was magical for me, I was overwhelmed to say the least and most overall everything else that night I felt like I was part of their family !!!!! </span></cite><br />
<cite><span style="font-size: large;">I invite you to go to her website <a href="http://www.meyer-media.com/mariehadleyrobinson/index.shtml"><span style="color: black;">http://www.meyer-media.com/mariehadleyrobinson/index.shtml</span></a></span></cite><br />
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<cite><span style="font-size: large;">Marie Hadley Robinson, a native of Thomasville, GA, made her operatic debut as Aida with the Graz Opera, where she was principal soloist for three years. During her tenure there, she was hailed, by critics as, “the finest Tosca of her generation”. Also at Graz she became the first soprano of her race to portray the role of Sieglinde in <i>Die Walküre </i>in a staged performance anywhere in the world. Subsequent engagements took her to Vienna, Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt, Prague, Kassel, Zurich, and a tour of Japan with the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin. She also later was principal soloist for five years with the National Theatre Mannheim. Her repertoire includes thirty-three major roles and she has appeared in forty-two companies in Eastern and Western Europe as well as in South America. In the United States, she has performed with the Michigan Opera Theater, Los Angeles Opera Theater, Columbus, Cleveland, Toledo, Omaha and Opera Ebony. Ms Robinson has appeared in recitals at Shenandoah, Florida A&M, University of Iowa Universities and the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. where she was the soprano soloist in Verdi’s<i> Requiem</i> and Poulenc’s <i>Gloria </i>with the Paul Hill Chorale and the Washington Oratorio Society. With Opera Ebony, she sang in the concert version of<i> Fosca</i> by Brazilian composer, Carlo Gomes in New York and with the Saskatchewan Symphony in Saskatoon, Canada a concert version of <i>Porgy and Bess.</i> Her latest concert of <i>Porgy and Bess</i> was with the late William Warfield at Longwood Gardens, PA with the Kennett Symphony. Ms. Robinson performed the role of Aida with Opera International in Mexico, Hong Kong, Marseille, Lyon, and with Opera Delaware. At the University she co-directed <i>The Medium, Gianni, Schiccihi, The Stoned Guest, Trial by Jury,</i> and <i>The Secret Marriage</i> and teaches applied voice. During the Fall of 2002, she produced the <i>Marriage of Figaro</i> with Leland Kimball as director and Patrick Evans as musical director. Dr. Robinson earned a Masters and Doctor of Music Degree in Performance from Florida State University where she studied with Elena Nikolaidi and Yvonne Ciannella. She earned a Bachelors of Science Degree in Music Education at Florida A&M University. There she studied with Dr. Rebecca Steele. Her awards include prizes in the VI Internacional de Canto, The Palm Beach Civic Opera Audition, the Duguid Fellowship Award, and the “Lift Every Voice and Sing” in 2010 for the National Opera Association. She is member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Delta Alpha German Honor Society, and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. She serviced on the boards of OperaDelaware, Delaware Classical Showcase, Delaware Valley Chorale, The Newark Symphony Orchestra and the National Opera Association, as well as a pass Delaware State Governor of NATS. Dr. Robinson is an Associate Professor of Voice and Opera at the University of Delaware. With a lifetime of experience, this recording brings us masterful performance of music from <a href="http://www.shantibrook.com/" target="_blank">Nadine Shanti</a>, <a href="http://joonbug.com/chicago/frequency/Celebration-of-Composer-Arranger-Lena-McLin/qGCZBiBehoA" target="_blank">Lena McLin</a>, <a href="http://www.bettyjacksonking.com/" target="_blank">Betty Jackson King</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Bonds" target="_blank">Margaret Bonds</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Price">Florence Beatrice Price</a>, and <a href="http://africlassical.blogspot.com/2007/12/undine-smith-moore-1904-1989-african.html" target="_blank">Undine Smith Moore</a>. Joining Marie in accompaniment is pianist <a href="http://www.music.udel.edu/about-us/faculty-staff/Pages/julie-nishimura.aspx" target="_blank">Julie Nishimura</a>. Nishimura has performed in the chamber music series of Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, and she has been a guest artist at more than 30 college campuses. Ms. Nishimura is a perennial favorite at the Delaware Chamber Music Festival and California Summer Music. An incredible collection, beautifully recorded, get your copy today!</span></cite></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">One such fascination of mine of Negro Spirituals or Afro-American Spirituals is based on the pentatonic scale (<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;">A </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;">pentatonic scale</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;"> is a musical </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_(music)" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Scale (music)">scale</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;"> or </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_mode" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Musical mode">mode</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;"> with five </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_note" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Musical note">notes</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;"> per </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octave" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Octave">octave</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;"> in contrast to a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heptatonic_scale" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Heptatonic scale">heptatonic</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;"> (seven-note) scale such as the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_scale" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Major scale">major scale</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_scale" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Minor scale">minor scale</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;">. Pentatonic scales are very common and are found all over the world. They are divided into those with </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitones" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Semitones">semitones</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;"> (hemitonic) and those without (anhemitonic). In that all the spirituals are based on those 5 BLACK NOTES. For on those black notes wonderful pieces of music was composed. Yes, including but not limited to "AMAZING GRACE" for it seems that John Newton, Captain of a slave ship may have heard the chanting of slaves humming these 5 tonal notes and composed this delightful hymn. Oh the slave ship was most likely from west Africa and the tonal sounds sounds really like that of a West African sorrow chant. Hence the reason of it's touching melody.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Finding the Cuckoo Waltz: by Scott A. Gamble (1994)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the fall of 1986 while working in Orlando, Florida, I remember</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">calling one of my customers one morning and being put on hold,</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">only to hear a series of tones that would haunt me for the next 8</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">years of my life. It so happens while listening to this piece of</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">music and trying to "name that tune", the more I tried, the more</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I failed at naming it. The only thing there was for me to do,</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">was to call back, listen one more time and then if I still could</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">not name it, call back once more only to ask someone the title</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and or where the music had come from. It was done, just in those</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">exact steps, only for me to be depressed, of the words that would</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">torment me off and on, for the next eight years "I am sorry, but</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can't help you". These were not the words that I wanted to</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">hear. I called the people who installed the phone answering</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">machine, i.e. on hold system and they did not know the music nor</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">did they know where the tune originated. Well now, this was not</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">a question of wanting to know what this 30 to 40 tonal segment</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">was but rather a mystery worth solving and deciphering. I called</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the people who installed the on hold music machine once again and</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">refused "No" for an answer, as I went from receptionist to</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Department Head Supervisor. I called their cooperate and</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the company that bought out that cooperate company and so on,</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">until there was a list of calls on my phone bill that totaled</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">over twenty or thirty dollars. It was at this time that I had</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">declared an all out war on this piece of music and was determined</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">to find its origin or its lineage of the composer. I called the</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">maestro or resident conductor for the Florida Symphony Orchestra</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">who was at that time Michael Krajewski and Kenneth Jean who was</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">music director for the Florida Symphony Orchestra (1986 & 1987),</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the professors of music for Central Florida University, Seminole</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">College and surrounding colleges near the greater Orlando area</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">were also other contacts that I had made at that time. Everyone</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that I called had basically the same answer after they called</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">this one place of business, was put on hold, listened to the</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">tones of this piece of music and finally would call me back with</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">some answer. See, that is what is so wonderful about a scenario</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">like this and what I learned ultimately, if the question you have</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">pertaining to music is of an oddity or can't be answered or</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">solved quickly, musicologist will go out of their way to try to</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">answer or find an answer because in essence, they want to know</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the answer too. However, pathetically and apologetically in</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">their own way they'd call me back and give me a colloquialism</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that I hear several more times while researching this piece of</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">music "Gosh, Scott, I've heard this piece of music somewhere and</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">can't put my finger on it". I knew that once Ken Whitcome with</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Disney Imagineers, at the Magical Kingdom called me and</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">told me this same adage, that something was absolutely rotten in </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Denmark, something was to suspicious about this piece of music, </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">because I knew that these people at Disney are some of the best </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">researchers of music in the world and some of the employees out </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">there were even composers of the best Disney music ever released </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and if they did not know what this piece was then something was </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">very strange. By the way if you did not know the Imagineers and </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the Rangers are the people in charge of all Disney Music. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I know possibly what you are thinking. What in the world was the</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">company that were getting these calls and putting these people on</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">hold thinking ? I must thank Mrs. Debbie and LuAnna most</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">graciously, they deserve all the recognition and credit for doing</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that. I will leave the company named "Anonymous" but will tell</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">you that never at any time did anyone get upset, angry, enraged,</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">furious or annoyed at my research via their company, as a matter</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">of fact the president of the company thought it wonderful that he</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">had something in his telephone service that no one else had. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Also he had what was certainly a mystery that was not only</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">bizarre but unique and quite a novelty. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For the first 6 months, they received calls from professors,</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">musicologists, maestros, and every other person you could or I</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">could think of that had any understanding of music. I would call</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">them (the people doing the calling), they would call there (again</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">we'll call it "Anonymous"), be put on hold and they'd try to name</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that tune. Some even taped the music as it was being played,</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">only to go to research reference books and look up this deranged</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">tune, that at times sounded like a folk song or even something</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that was written for electronic music taken from an excerpt of a</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">piece of classical music. Let me not insult your intelligence, I</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">researched the art of electronic music, which is as you may be</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">aware, the little disks on toys that when depressed they play</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">music or cards, as when you open them they play a tune. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was almost ready to give up my search for my answer, which was,</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">where did this piece come from, who wrote it and what year was it</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">written, when a professor of music at the University of Central </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Florida told me that it sounded to him like a variation from a</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">folk song that might be baroque. So I started my research in the</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1600's and went to the late 1700's, listening to every type of</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">folk song imaginable. I had no luck. A few months passed and I</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">still looked for some kind of answer that would be pacify me. I</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">was so hooked at trying to find an answer, I would think about it</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">late at night. Those melodic reverb notes pounding in my head. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was really dedicated and determined, at this point, to find an</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">answer. The more I told the story, the more excited I'd get once</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">they'd ask me to hum a bar of the tune to them to see if they</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">could name it. It was quite embarrassing sometimes to be humming</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">this piece while people looked on very strangely as to what it</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">was I was doing. My Dad always told me, in the general</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ramifications of life, "Ask questions to get answers and offer</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">information when you can, to get answers". So, that is what I was</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">doing. Humming to get an answer. It was heartbreaking at times</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">to go that far and not even get an "Oh, I think I know what that</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">is". Over a two year period I called different people, ask them</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">to call the number and get put on hold. Fewer and fewer people</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">were being contacted as I was exhausting all of my personal</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">resources. The "Anonymous" business was getting less and less</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">calls, which I am sure they appreciated. Some would call back</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">quickly and tell me that they'd heard it before but did not know</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the name of it. Some would wait and call back a few weeks later</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and it was the waiting that excited me as maybe they had found</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">something or stumbled upon something, some information that would</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">have some precedence. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I had people call me at work, all hours of the day, only to ask</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">had I received an answer of any kind. These were people who were</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">just as inquisitive and just as curious as I was but they did not</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">have the ambition that I did to want to search for this piece of</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">music. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">one that I'd never heard as an electronic piece but rather from</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">some sonata, partita, etude, concerto or even a part of a</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">symphony. I just could not find that link to hearing the piece</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">of on hold music and naming it. Everything else would be easy</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">once I got that link in the information. I will spare you great</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">detail in what would happen over the next two to three years but</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I will start in September 1989. Once I left Orlando and moved to</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Montgomery I had remembered the little piece of music and from</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">time to time, would hum that piece to myself but I never called</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the company in Orlando to hear it again. I started with Warren</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Wholesale, a company here in Montgomery in 1990 that dealt with</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">customers through out the Montgomery area and I remember, very</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">well, the morning my boss, Rob Warren told me to call a particular </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">company. So the phone rang on the other end and once Ann picked up </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and transferred me from her phone to Ron, the president of this</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">company that I was trying to reach and to whom I am deeply</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">grateful to, for letting so many people call there, as so many</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">people had called three years prior to the "Anonymous" store in</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Orlando. I was quickly haunted once again by this melodic piece</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">as I was put on hold. I thought "No way" there is just no way</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">possible that there could be two answering machines of the same</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">brand out there and me be in the same town as each. Could a </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">predetermination, fate or God be telling me NO ! it is not your</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">time to give up your research for this music. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As sure as I hung up though, I started over into that never</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ending cycle of telephone calls and being rejected. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Professors at the local colleges gave me the same answer I'd</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">gotten some three to four years ago and still I could not find</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that one person of whom could recognize this bizarre little tune.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dr. Harald Rohlig of Huntingdon College here in Montgomery was my</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">mentor and to whom I looked up to while researching The Cuckoo</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Waltz. I will never forget the time he called to get put on hold</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and took enough enthusiasm to play the melody as it was being</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">played on the other end to him. I recall once I called Dr.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Rohlig and ask him if he'd heard of anything new with the tune</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and he played the notes of the strange piece on his piano</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">keyboard while I was listening by phone. It literally blew my</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">mind how he could play this piece. He would have had to have</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">memorized the piece, to play it on command. Thanks to him I</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">found more vitality, at that point, to want to find the song's</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">origin and composer. I was also for the first time listening to</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">a different way it was being played. There were no electronic</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">tones being pulsated in my ear but the composed notes played by</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">piano. Which in my opinion sounded a lot better.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">However the more I was rejected the more I was determined to find</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">some answer. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I spoke to several musical advocates including but not limited to</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yvonne Rodriguez. She was another person who had a great amount</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">of insight to my research as it was her suggestion that the tune </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">sounded to her like a folk song of perhaps the late romantic</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">period, in and around the time of Mozart. It was with that</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">information that I went into depth researching and finding any</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">kind of folk song dated (1760 to 1850) imaginable. All of these</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">things and the following scenario happened with in about 15</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">weeks. It was sometime in 1991, I'll call it the spring of, when</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I called the company that made the cartridge that was inserted in</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the On Hold system. They told me the company was sold in 1986 to</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">TIE Communications in Japan. So I called TIE Communications in</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">New Jersey and in Connecticut to get the telephone number to the</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">TIE Communications in Japan. Once I got the number for the Japan</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">TIE Communication Office (which is now Nitsuko), I called there</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">to see if by chance I could get an answer there. Keep in mind</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">there is at least a 8 hour difference in time and I'd get up at</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">3:00 to 4:00 in the morning to make the call and to try to</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">contact someone, anyone who could help. There was no luck however</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">in that telephone conversation, even though I did talk to someone</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">to whom spoke some, broken english. After exhausting this</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">resource I was about to give up when I had a brain storm of sorts</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and decided that these people at Tie Communications had only</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">heard me ask for the name of this piece of music based on the</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">information that I've given them, that being a model number,</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">serial number, bar code (UPC), and the date stamped on the side</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">of the cartridge. There was to much time being spent in getting </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">someone to call the number, waiting for their call back, waiting</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">for some answer, whether it would be one I wanted to hear or not,</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">so I had to come up with a plan to get the music out there in the</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">field and do it to where it would not harass anyone. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I never for a moment thought, until this time, that what I might</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">do is make a copy of the music on cassette and mail it to Japan,</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Disney World, to professors of music, to all those places that</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'd been exposed to in the past and avoid asking them to go</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">through the ordeal of calling and getting put on hold. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sure, it would cost a little money to purchase tapes to send out</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and a little more time would be needed to send them out but I'd</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">spent several dollars in research already and many man hours</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">already , what would it hurt to spend a little more to solve this</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">case of the "unnamed music"? Also it would be a lot quicker to</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">canvass a large area in a small amount of time.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So I made a copy of the music by taping the music from the on</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">hold system to a tape recorder and sent it to the Japan TIE</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Communications office, Kansas TIE Communications office, to</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">several professors of music, Disney Imagineers, Library of</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Congress Music Research Department, radio stations that play</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">mostly music of Big Band and Classical and finally to the radio</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">stations of National Public Radio. The tapes were sent to those</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">places in envelopes marked "Do Not Pass By Any Magnet" as to</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">protect the tape from any damaging outside forces, at this point</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I could not afford the tapes to get to their destination and be</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">damaged, imagine what confusion that would bring on. The tapes</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">were also sent with a letter explaining the difficultly of </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">finding the importance, result or outcome of this strange</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">unsolved mystery. Some time had lapsed and one morning to my</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">surprise the phone rang and it was a Mrs. Lang at TIE</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Communications in Kansas. She wanted to know if by chance I had</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">found out any information on that piece of music I was looking</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">for. I had gotten excited, imagine my surprise, I thought</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">perhaps she was about to offer a conclusion to this charade. The</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">call from Mrs. Lang was just a false alarm, as she just wanted to</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">let me know she was helping me on that end as much as she could. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I thanked her very much and began my search again. What I am</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">telling you, is once I had forgotten about the music situation</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and had something else on my mind, like my job, or in fact had</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">began to forget it all together, the phone would ring and I'd get</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the call asking me about the song. I was going crazy with wonder</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">about this whole music thing. Was it worth it ? Was the</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">aggravation and disappointment needed ? How in the world could</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">a 30 to 40 note little ballad give me so many problems.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1991 passed as did 1992 and 1993 and still I'd not heard any</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">word. Again I am leaving a lot of detail out, for example the</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">trips to The Public Library, using the Music Index at Alabama</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">State University, which is the best in southeastern Alabama, to</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">my knowledge, also to other libraries such as Maxwell Air Force</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Base, Auburn University at Montgomery and so on. I'd work</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">periodically on the research and maybe would stumble into a</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">little information that was informative. I'd been collecting</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">classical music compact disks, I had about 600 by that time and</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">most of the music was baroque. I'd listen to the music in hopes</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that with in the piece there would be surprisingly somehow, maybe</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">even in a part of the piece of music, maybe in a movement, a</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">sonnet, that I did not know that very well, maybe there it would</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">be with in the music . I thought perhaps it might be buried in</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">there somewhere, anywhere. Even my 78's were growing in size and</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">nothing there even resembled this piece. Maybe along the line</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'd even find some person out there who was a little interested</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">to help, but I'd find out later that they were not dedicated and</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">there I'd be, back at the "drawing board". I was steadfast in my</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ways because by now there were to many people involved in wanting</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">to know the outcome. People will make fun of you and criticize</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">you, they'll even think that you are a little strange, until the</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">research has paid off, by the end result being, that answer in</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">which you'd been looking for. That is the time when people will</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">listen to you. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I didn't need just to give up, nor would my own being let me do</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">so. Even my faith in God made me realize that praying for an</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">answer for this musical crossword puzzle was not totally out of</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the question. If anything, He could help with an answer far</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">faster than anyone else. The drum roll is about to sound...... I</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">will not hold out any longer on the ending. As with some</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">stories, they sometimes end with a happy ending or unhappy ending</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and I'll be honest with you, I thought this story was going to</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">have a unhappy ending. In fact a bad ending to this story would</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">be better than no ending at all.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In January of 1994 Jim Furbush with Tie Communications called me</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">after receiving my letter and tape. He told me that he would</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">help me after reviewing and reading the of sincerity of the</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">letter. He told me that he'd call his friend, also named Jim, in</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Japan that worked with Nitsuko (the company that purchased Tie</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Communications and Technicom). As you recall these are the</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">companies that I'd failed at getting an answer back in 1986. Jim</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Furbush called me back after speaking to Jim in Japan and the</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mystery was half over. When Jim told me that the name of the</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">song was "The Cuckoo Waltz" my heart stopped a beat and I was</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">completely stunned. Jim Furbush will always be a hero to me as</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">well as friend, as it was he that ended my search for the title</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">of the song. It was an emotional day and I'll remember it</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">clearly as it was an ending to a long anticipation of every</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">aspect of knowledge and research resource I had. Jim with</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Nitsukoin Japan had the information all along and the call that</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I had made to Japan in 1986 and 1990 must have been close to</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">finding the answer. In other words I had the right church but</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the wrong pew. After finding out that the "Cuckoo Waltz" was the</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">name of the piece of music, I thought that would satisfy me. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">No Way. I began my research, with the new name I'd been given</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">from Jim, in the popular music epoch (1900 to 1950) because I was</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">just guessing at this point and just took a stab in the dark to</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">see if I'd get fortunate enough to find it. Keep in mind that at</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">this point I had no clue as to what time period it would fall</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">under, so I would start in that time era and then move backwards</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">if I had found no answer. I researched a set of volumes entitled</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"The Guide to Popular Music" and there, to my astonishment, it</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">was, finally in black and white. Titled under the name Ken</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Griffin for the year 1948. The flip side of "The Cuckoo Waltz"</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">on the 78 record was "You Can't be True Dear". There is a key</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">here in the research as the reference referred to the label of</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the record being Rondo Records. No additional information was</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">given about Rondo only that the number of the 78 record was 128. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Cautiously I believed that the ending of this mystery was close</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">at hand. At least now I'd seen the words "The Cuckoo Waltz" in</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">print. I'd found the music's title in text and now, what I</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">thought was the composer of the piece of music. How could I've</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">been so lucky, so auspicious, as to have killed two birds with</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">one stone. By finding the composer and the title the</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">investigation was over, done, finished, finis.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But hold on, the reference book referred to Ken Griffin as being</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the artist. There is a big difference between the who is an</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">artist and the composer, especially when I was trying to find out</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">who the composer was. The reference read that Ken Griffin was a</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">popular organist that played at skating rinks and that after</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">World War 2, had again played at skating rinks and at popular</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">dance halls playing Hammon Organ. The reference never mentioned</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">any birth date nor if he was still living but did suggest that</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">since he was in World War Two he might still be alive. I was</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">hesitant in trying to call him as I didn't know if he'd offer any</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">information to me, if he'd be rude or belligerent in anyway.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I wasn't sure if I wanted to contact him or not. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Maybe I'd be better off if I'd just find a copy of the music, say</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that he was the composer and let it alone, no one would be the</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">wiser. Whoever would research this piece it would take them at</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">least 8 years and again no one would ever question my findings. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The more I thought of not calling him, strangely enough, I then</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">had mixed emotions of calling Mr. Griffin to see maybe what</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">prompted him in writing it and tell him of the research that I'd</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">done on it. I finally made up my mind and decided to call. Now</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the problem was where to start. I thought about researching his</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">address through the editors or publishers of The Guide of Popular</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Music at first and then I stumbled upon the answer I was looking</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">one day as I made a call to Carl Fisher Music company to see if</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the Cuckoo Waltz was available on sheet music, which it was not. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I spoke to the man there who had been with Carl Fisher for some</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">35 years plus. He said that he'd heard of Ken Griffin and did</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">not know where he was or what he was doing. He asked if I had</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">heard of a Hal Pearl as he too was a famous organist. He told me</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that Hal Pearl was in the Chicago area and told me to contact</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">information for his telephone number. I contacted Hal Pearl and</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">had a wonderful conversation with him. Very coincidentally Hal</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">told me he was friends with Ken Griffin, and told me some of the</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">relationship that he and Ken Griffin had after the WWII and that</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ken really made it big time with the hit " You Can't Be True Dear</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">". He went on to tell me that after the late forties on into the</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">mid fifties that they'd been friends and that Ken had played here</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and there and nothing much was written about him. I knew my</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">search for Ken Griffin was over when Hal told me that he had died</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">in 1956. From what Hal told me Ken had an alcohol problem and</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that is why he died and after that was said, nothing more was</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">said about the way he died. He went on to tell me that Ken's</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">sister was the beneficiary of the monies and he did not know</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">where she was but thought it might be somewhere in New York. I</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">was saddened to know that I would not get to speak to Ken Griffin</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">or have him comment on my research. After speaking with Hal</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pearl for about 45 minutes I had a feeling of knowing a little</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">segment about Ken Griffin's life and what he was about and that</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">he love to play music for people and watch their reaction to his</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">music. Hal told me that Ken took his Hammon Organ with him,</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">loaded it on to a hitched up trailer and would go from town to</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">town in the mid United States and come back periodically to Chi</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">town. After that week I thought very strongly of ending the</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">research because I felt like perhaps I was chasing after a ghost</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and maybe the spirit of Ken Griffin might be better off left</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">alone. The old adage of the artist or composer was still at hand</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and finding out that was far more important than a ghost haunting</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">me. Was Ken Griffin the composer as well as the artist of The</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Cuckoo Waltz ? This was the next big question to ask myself and</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">research. I wound up asking a lot of questions to a lot of</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">people and finally asked ASCAP (American Society of Composers and</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Publishers) in New York as to whom was responsible, wrote or is</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">credited for writing The Cuckoo Waltz. I was thinking that Ken</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Griffin's name was who they'd tell me and found out that I was</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">indeed wrong. When the girl there gave me a different name other</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">than " Ken Griffin " and I was shocked to say the least and now</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">yet another piece of still the unsolvable puzzle. I was told</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that it was E. Johannson and that he was from Sweden and no</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">further information was given because there was no more listed</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">there. Notice the spelling of Johannson. I was completely</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">baffled about this new name but at least now I had the composer's</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">name. I spent more time finding out about this composer and</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">couldn't because, mainly over the next few months, I'd find out</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that his name would be spelled differently as what ASCAP had on</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">file. I'd been looking for Johannson and to what you'll read was</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">not his name at all. In fact through translation after</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">translation somehow the "h" in Johannson acquired a stem from the</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">letter "n" causing much confusion in researching his name. I was</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">told by ASCAP that STIM WRITER was who I needed to contact in</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sweden and they gave me an address and fax number. I wrote three</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">letters to Stim Writer, all with in about 8 weeks of each other. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I received all the letters that I wrote back "return to sender",</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"NO SUCH ADDRESSE", was the way it was marked, which was typical</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">at this point but pressed on with my research. I was speaking to</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">some friends about finding a copy of the music on record and I</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">was using my friends as my last resource, as I tried their</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">suggestion and contacted all the record stores including record</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">specialty stores in New York, Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta and other</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">large metropolitan cities. No luck.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I researched RONDO records and found a little information about</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the label. I found a company called Ranwood outside the greater</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Los Angeles area that bought out the company called Rondo back in</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the late 40's or early 1950's and she told me due to a fire,</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">their records were lost and there would be no way for any</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">research to be done on their end. After I exhausted all</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">questions like: who personally bought the company in 1950, maybe</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">if that person still exists then I could ask them some questions. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The girl that I spoke to "Linda" was very uncooperative and I</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">really was at a dead end in speaking with this girl as she was</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">very rude and she did not have any sympathy for me and my</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">research. After I totally struck out with Ranwood Records I</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">contacted the Library of Congress in and around this same time</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">frame and I was amazed that they had THE CUCKOO WALTZ on a</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Columbia label and would get me an album to cassette copy of the</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ken Griffin " Cuckoo Waltz " if I would send Sony Classical, who</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">owned the rights to the label "Columbia" record, not the</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">individual piece of music, a letter of authorization so that the</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">record could be copied. From there, after receiving the Letter</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">of Consent from Sony, to forward it on to the Library of Congress</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">with a check or money order for sixty dollars. "Sixty dollars"</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">for a three minute song was expensive but when it finally would</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">come in, I at least would have it in my collection, "The Cuckoo</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Waltz" by Ken Griffin, the only person that ever cut this piece</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">in the United States, just the thought of that was comforting and</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">very tranquilizing to me.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I did contact Sony by letter and never received the Letter of</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Consent from them. I waited a total of two months before I</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">decided to write yet another letter to Sony. Again no response.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I found out, from the Library of Congress, that the RONDO</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">recording was a collector's item, that there were just a few</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">recordings of the original label and that RONDO was in fact the</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">original label and it would be very difficult to find. The LOCÔ</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(Library of Congress) went on to tell me that they only had the</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">music on the Columbia label, as the RONDO label was entirely</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">impossible to get. All of this took place on a Friday morning</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and Friday afternoon a wonderful lady, Mrs. Ellen Jones, who owns</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">an antique store, Blue Ridge Antiques, just outside of Montgomery</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">called me and said she was going to take some 78 records to her</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">store in Birmingham, about 100 miles north of Montgomery, did I</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">want to come look through what she had once more, before she</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">loaded several and took them north ? I said sure and headed up</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">there the next morning. In the last stack of records and I had</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">gone through about 1875 records of 78's and 33 1/3's, I found and</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">to those people I've told this story to, can not believe it to</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">date in what happened, there in front of me was the original</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">RONDO recording of Ken Griffin's "The Cuckoo Waltz". It had a</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">crack on one side but it was playable. I had gone beyond the</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">point of being ecstatic and passed the point of being totally</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">delirious. I could not believe it. For $ 2.00 payable to the</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Blue Ridge Antiques, I could now own it. This was to much, all</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">good things come to those who wait was the first colloquialism</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that came to mind and I thanked God several times. I remember a</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">story from my childhood that there was a store where if you could</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">not find something out in the world, just a trip to the Old</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Curiosity Shop would allow you to find your most wanted</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">possessions. Magically it would appear at the Old Curiosity Shop. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This was exactly what it was feeling like.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ellen and Joe the owners, came to my rescue as they thought I'd</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">fallen or hurt myself with the loud convulsion that I'd just gone </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">through. They could have heard me in Montgomery, which was</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">several miles away. I was holding in my hands the original</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">record, the collectors item that was told to me that I'd never</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">find. Again, the LOC told me they didn't even have a copy of it</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">on RONDO as it was so hard to get a copy. What blew my mind was</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that the record was in the original jacket or slip cover. With</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">holding this record in my hands I was able to answer yet a few</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">more questions I found out that RONDO records was in Chicago,</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ill. in the same town that Hal Pearl had a friendship with Ken</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Griffin. I was assuming at one time or the other that it might</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">have been Chicago as to where the record company RONDO was</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">located, as everything thus far was either happening very</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ironically or was coincidental. The thought had crossed my mind</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">several times but now I had proof that RONDO was located in</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Chicago.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Once I had my copy of the record I took it home and played it. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was a very emotional time for me because I'd spent hours upon</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">hours trying to find some evidence of its existence and could not</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">until this very moment. People were starting to think that Scott</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Gamble had flipped, gone crazy but I was bound and determined to</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">find the answer or some evidence and now my research had paid</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">off. This was most definitely a part of the culmination of the</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">story. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Still there was a question as to whom E. Johannson was or how I</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">could maybe even reach him in Sweden.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Don't forget that it was he that ASCAP showed in their text of</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Composers & Publishers, as to whom the composer of "The Cuckoo</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Waltz" was. I was speaking to my friends again about all that</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">had happened and frankly they were tired of all that I was</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">rambling on about. I asked Allen what I should do about finding</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">out the information from Sweden and when he said it, when he</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">suggested what I'm about to tell you, I almost fell out of my</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">chair as it sounded so logical and I was furious that I'd not</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">thought of it several months prior. He told me to contact the</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Swedish Embassy to the United States and ask for the Cultural</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Arts Department and they'd probably be able to help. I was</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">surprised to say the least, as I was on the phone for only 45</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">seconds and had received the name and address of who to contact</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">in Stockholm, Sweden at the Swedish Music Information Center. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Needless to say I was trying to contact the wrong people in</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sweden, no wonder my letters were sent back.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I had waited Eight years and a few more weeks to wait wouldn't</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">matter one way or the other. On August 16, 1994 at about </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">11:35 am the mail man came in with my letter from Gunn Dattermark</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">chief of popular music arkiv (archive) in Stockholm Sweden. Her</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">letter was similar to this:</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Cuckoo Waltz by J. Emanuel Jonasson</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The story of The Cuckoo Waltz starts in Stockholm, Sweden in a</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">saloon that showed a cinema entitled Gyllene Goken or "The Golden</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Cuchoo". The motion picture cinema, The Golden Cuckoo, was shown</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">in the same saloon as where the cuckoo clock was. So as the</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">story goes, the cuckoo clock in the saloon was of a golden color</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and the bird inside chirped a scale in C-Major. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There was a six man group of musicians that played background</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">music for this cinema, some of the members played in military</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">bands but there was a trumpet major, J. Emanuel Jonasson (1886 - 1956)</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that is given credit for noticing that the cuckoo bird</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">inside the cuckoo clock, chirped in the same scale as when they</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">would play a ballad or melody in C©Major. Since the cuckoo</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">clock's bird chirped in C©Major and the background music was</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">played in C©Major as well, Jonasson decided that he could make</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the two relate somehow. He studied the two circumstances, took</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">notes and came up with a new tune to be performed as background</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">music for "The Golden Cuckoo" cinema. This music remains Gok</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Valsen or The Cuckoo Waltz. It was there at the saloon in 1913,</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">when Jonasson, 27 years old, wrote this wonderful lively tune. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is even played and sang today in Sweden as a popular folk</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">song. In and around the year 1913, two brothers, accordion</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">players, recorded the waltz and it continues to be a popular</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ballad even today. Jonasson lived to be 70 years of age and is</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">put to rest in Stockholm.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">** Credited for the Text is Ejnar Westling. The Cuckoo Waltz if</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">written for Andante for piano in 3/4 time. First copyright of</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">this music is 1920 by Elkan & Schildknecht, Emil Carelius in</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Stockholm. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">International copyright secured and reserved # E.C.21.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Information provided by Gunn Dattermark, archive chief of</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">music at the Swedish Music Information Center in Stockholm,</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sweden. The Swedish MIC is the Swedish Performing Rights</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Society's (STIM) information and documentation center for</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">copyright © protected Swedish music. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Also with this very informative letter came the original sheet</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">music, copyright on this music was 1925 and so ended a story that</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I might say very sarcastically drove me CUCKOO. A follow up</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">letter thanking Gunn Dattermark followed the letter that I</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">received from her and I requested one last item, that was a copy</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">of the Cuckoo Waltz. On whatever medium or means she could find</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">it I would get that playable object to play it. In other words I</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">did not know if all she could find the music on would be reel to</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">reel, I don't own a reel to reel but was willing to get or</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">purchase one to hear this piece of music. I was hoping, I had</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">just a little desire to have the music performed by the original</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">composer J. Emanuel Jonasson. However whatever she could get I'd</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">be satisfied with. I waited several weeks and heard nothing, no</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">response. I had the letter saved in my word processor and</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">reprinted the same letter, changed the date to what was current</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and mailed it once again, waiting now in my 6th week from sending</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the first one. To my astonishment in our fax machine at Warren</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Wholesale there was a fax from Gunn Dattermark in Sweden and she</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">told me to wait that in January 1995 I'd be receiving a parcel</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">from her. I had no idea what to expect but had an idea that I</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">was about to own a Swedish Copy of the Cuckoo Waltz. As I </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">speculated Rob, my boss, <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">handed me on January 24, 1995 a </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">cassette </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">tape mailed from Sweden that Gunn Dattermark had </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">sent to my </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">attention. Enclosed was the three minute Cuckoo Waltz </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">performed </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">by Jorma Juselius a Finnish (Finland) accordion player </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">cut in </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1956 the very year that it's founder Emanuel Jonasson died.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Rob was very </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">cooperative, in that he </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">allowed me to receive calls </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">from places all over the world concerning </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">receiving info and the </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana";">receiving the </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">music itself, Rob Warren hired me full time and </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">my </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">time I was </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">supposed to have been working at my job, I was </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">working </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">on the </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Cuckoo Waltz. I will never be able to repay him or OD Warren </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana";">for the kindness their expressed during these wild endeavours I was on</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana";">in the art of music. I did learn one thing in those 8 years of researching:</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"IF IT IS AVAILABLE, IT IS OUT THERE SOMEWHERE THE TROUBLE IS THAT</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">YOUR DRIVE TO FIND IT MUST OUT WEIGH THE TORMENT THAT YOU MUST GO</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">THROUGH". (click on the link below to hear the cuckoo waltz)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My notes: while listening to the first 8 notes (remember these notes were the only ones burned to the electronic card for TIE Communications), take notice of the trills where the cuckoo is speaking and finally notice in the sharps and flats the brilliance of Jonasson as to how he could put these in the piece and you think only for a brief period of time (that note should not be there), until the next note reveals the corrected phrase of the music. It's really outstanding, and now without further to do here is the Cuckoo Waltz by Emanuel Jonasson (1886-1956)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana";"><span style="color: black;">(vocal Cuckoo Waltz) <span class="long-title " dir="ltr" id="eow-title" title="Kuk-Kuk-Valsen (The Cuckoo Waltz) - Alex og Richard's Harmonikaorkester; Valdemar Davids 1951"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Kuk-Kuk-Valsen (The Cuckoo Waltz) - Alex og Richard's Harmonikaorkester; Valdemar Davids 1951 </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: large;"><span class="long-title " dir="ltr" style="color: blue;" title="Kuk-Kuk-Valsen (The Cuckoo Waltz) - Alex og Richard's Harmonikaorkester; Valdemar Davids 1951"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOnP9N7FAT8" style="background-color: white;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOnP9N7FAT8</a></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://oldenseaman.chips.jp/kakko-waltz.html"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">http://oldenseaman.chips.jp/kakko-waltz.html</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">I invite you to my squidoo page: <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/classical-music-and-opera-archives">http://www.squidoo.com/classical-music-and-opera-archives</a></span></span><br />
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Gamble Music Production and Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02799870535857174447noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4291668056904324632.post-18103199716060024452011-01-15T18:53:00.000-08:002016-05-15T23:07:58.109-07:00Why Gamble Music Production and Archive / Awaken to Afro American Music <i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are several of my family, friends and professional friends that have asked me to post my thoughts about music and this is my first blog to post. It will be a strong attempt to help those folks out there who have hard to find pieces of music, and show them how to go about finding the music they seek. From the folks that have brought me the "one line hummed lines" to my main problem of "three word lyrics" from a song (that people bring me) and try to find the WHOLE song from just a few word hint. That is a challenge. </span></i><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;"><br /><br />I love God, my family and music in that order.<br />God has given me blessings beyond measure.<br />My Family, again, mostly my son, has bailed me out more than one could think.<br />Finally music, mainly classical music (my friend too) has taken me to other worlds and has soothed my soul at the same time.<br />Born in Larisa, Greece put up for adoption in Athens, Greece and apoted by the Gamble's James and Blanche... these people, my parents, who gave me a chance here in the UNITED STATES. To them I owe everything. They will not be able, in this life or in Heaven, understand the joy that I have had here in the United States.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "tahoma";">My interest are: Classical Music. Mainly Baroque and Early Romantic. I also collect autographs of composers, conductors and artists. I have about 260 plus and they grace my walls of my small museum. One such artist is George <span id="misspelled" s="0" t="0" tabindex="-1">Skaroulis</span>, the very one who is playing this piece you are listening to "Se <span id="misspelled" s="1" t="0" tabindex="-1">Ymnumen</span>". (add music here). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "tahoma";">First let's discuss why I love classical music. In 1982 I joined the US Air Force and was stationed at Gunter <span id="misspelled" s="0" t="0" tabindex="-1">AFS</span> (Montgomery, Al.), there and Maxwell AFB, at night in 1983, I would take several classes to get my BS degree. Night school being what it was I was tired from the day and then go to class was "not really good". </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;">I took a music appreciation class from Dr. Jane <span id="misspelled" s="0" t="0" tabindex="-1">Sentell</span> whom taught me how to listen to music, especially classical and more over baroque. Dr. <span id="misspelled" s="1" t="0" tabindex="-1">Sentell</span> blog page will be added to this blog soon, you can read about her yourself. Her passion of music instilled in my heart a overwhelming desire to captivate the human essence in the art of music. See she was a musician herself and her love for baroque music lead me to understand her passion so easily, I assume it rolled over into my own heart and mind. Then in 1983, almost 30 years ago, I remember well why I was so attracted to classical music. She taught us DO NOT LISTEN to classical (regardless as to what type or genre), or any music for that fact as "one piece" but in your mind SEPARATE the instruments and <span style="font-family: "tahoma";">differentiate what each instrument is saying to the other. It changed my world, including yes the dreaded OPERA, that most of you love to hate.</span></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "tahoma";">This website perhaps will enlighten you to enjoy OPERA and classical music a little more than you do and if you like a certain type of music on this sight it is purchasable.</span>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "tahoma";">This website will not be a boring site but one to help you find music and to enjoy music. It will show you if you are musicologist already as to what to do in certain cases (in which you can't find a certain piece of music). Even if you are a professional musicologist, this site may still offer you a remedy to find a piece you've been looking for a long time. Let's start: I married in 1984, money was tight but my wife allowed me to buy cassettes (<span id="misspelled" s="0" t="0" tabindex="-1">cd's</span> were just being discovered), and the cassettes that I bought were the "same old" pieces that everyone has in their collection. I would listen to pieces on the radio (and the radio sometimes would have "static" and it would "drive me crazy" to not be able to listen to it in its entirety). We moved to Orlando Florida in 1986, upon getting out of the Air Force and I worked for Disney for about 6 months and then for a major <span id="misspelled" s="1" t="0" tabindex="-1">RW</span> (refrigeration wholesaler). While at these places I ran into so many different nationalities, each one "loving" their own type of music. I can recall understanding more and more about different genre and music types during the 3 years that we lived there than any other time in my life. We met so many different friends and were introduced to so many different types of music including but not limited to: Greek, Polish, Italian, American, Iranian, Chinese, Japanese, (at Epcot there were a host of different music to listen to); living in Orlando and going to Disney and the other major theme parks there was always music ALL THE TIME. My point is, I took my "musical life lessons" learned in Orlando and applied them to what Dr. Sentell taught me a few year prior to this point. We would attend the Florida Symphony Orchestra for that 1986 to 1989 year span and be overwhelmed with the different music that one could get exposed to in a lifetime. What better place in the world than going to ORLANDO FLORIDA to get a lesson in musicology. During this time I collected some cassettes here and there and my collection was not that impressive but included some 50 plus cassettes. When my son was born in 1989, we decided to move back to Montgomery Alabama. There too, is a great place to catch a few major lessons in music. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "tahoma";">EVERYONE in this world (I do not care who they are, loves a certain type of music), it is instilled in us from the time we are born to the time we die. It is part of our rhythmic and biological clock, that from the time we first hear our mother's heartbeat while laying on their chest just "cuddling", to the symphony of sounds that are gathered daily in our world. Look around, it's all around, the trees sway back and forth to a song of the wind and birds singing, the Maestro in the clouds allows this to happen daily because God does know that we have to have music (one way or the other to survive). I have studied music (as you will continue to read on in this blog) from the earliest forms of music (some 35,000 years ago to what we have current). It amazes me to know that people get uneasy when they don't have music on around them, even in the car/truck they drive or in the homes they live in. Sorry, got on a rant, I will do that from time to time. In 1990 only a year moving back to Montgomery, I got involved heavily with Black gospel music and other types of classical music. I became a season ticket holder for Montgomery Symphony Orchestra and Fellowship Series. Any music that came into Montgomery I went to. My son late 1993 (then, he was only 4 almost five) went to his first classical music event. The Tokyo String Quartet (approached he and afterwards and commented) that they had never seen a child sit through something like that so quietly. He does not care for classical now but then he seemed to love it. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "tahoma";">In 1994, I got involved in Afro-American music. OK here is the rub, I had taken music appreciation classes and had audited some as well (because I had friends that were instructors that taught it at Alabama State, <span id="misspelled" s="1" t="0" tabindex="-1">AUM</span>, Troy State Montgomery) and would sit in from time to time as a refresher. Hardly in any of those classes was an exclusive class being taught on Afro-American composers and OR Black composers. I looked in my collection and I had NO BLACK COMPOSERS. </span><br />
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<span class="n fn" id="name"><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="full-name"><span class="given-name"><span style="font-size: small;">This really bothered me and I started one of many quest that would change my life forever. As a musicologist (whether you have a degree it music or not), the study within itself is so gratifying that you will learn other life lessons along the way. Having no black composers in my 1994 collection of almost 600 <span id="misspelled" s="0" t="0" tabindex="-1">cds</span>, made me realize that someone had not taught me all there was to know about music or "had" and there was a hidden meaning behind not being taught fully about these composers. Perhaps themselves didn't know about black composers. My search lead to Alabama State University to which Dr. Pamela Burns, lead me to Stephen L. Hayes, artistic director, conductor, choir director for Tuskegee University. Stephen and I became friends very quickly because he could tell I was not black, what was this "white" guy trying to find out about black composers ? It became evident when he saw that I wanted very badly to find out about these composers, whom up until this time only consisted of William Grant Still and William Dawson. I arrived there on campus of Tuskegee University that ceremony day of William Dawson's birthday and went on into the chapel where the event was held. There under the direction of Stephen L. Hayes he directed the choir to sing "There is a Balm in Gilead". </span><div dir="ltr">
<span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">If God was ever present at an event He was there this day. I thought that the angels in heaven had come to earth. Clear and acclimated voices that one only dreams about hearing and then being able to hear it. Absolutely unbelievable to hear such beauty.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">After a graveside ceremony behind the chapel standing by the final laying places of William Dawson and his wife, it was time for me to go to class. Stephen asked me why do you want this so bad ? I don't know, I think it's because if I am on a quest to learn music and different types of it, I should be taught EVERYTHING including what some professors don't deem necessary or important. TO ME black / Afro-American composers are just as important as any other nationality. So without question Stephen Hayes believed my gut wrenching truth then he told me this very PROFOUND statement "to know where we are going in music (as black people) you have to know where we've been". WOW. Oh my God, what a slap in the head for reality. Stephen said go across the street to the home of Booker T. Washington (tour it) then to the Cultural Arts Museum and tour there before you come back here for your music lesson. Stephen Hayes and I became lifelong friends that day, I still talk to him from time to time still learning everything I can about the art of black music that I was taught that day. OH WHAT'S RIGHT ? Negro spirituals, black music, "black" composers, how to say that right without offending anyone ? The answer is simple. Stephen taught me that day, black people in general WILL NEVER GET UPSET with you promoting and respecting their lives in calling genre negro spirituals or black composers as to what other people may call it that don't have a clue. YOU ARE talking up their lives. DO IT WITH RESPECT !!!With this I became more aware of my Afro-American friends and their lives, have sang in several black churches and IF I miss a Family and Friends day at Saint Stephens Church in Gordon, Alabama and not sing, my name is mud !!!!! We went on to do a show about black composers and their music in Feb. of 1995 for WTSU 89.9 in Troy Alabama in which I understand was rebroadcasted by popular demand for a couple of years after we aired that show.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">John Williams – composer and conductor</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Basil Poledouris – composer and conductor</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Art Reynolds – composer</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Rachel Varga – violinist</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Emi Ohi Resnick – violinist</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Mosie Lister – composer of Christian Music</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Glenn Bostick – singer w/ John Paul Walters</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">John Paul Walters – singer, composer</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Alexander Simionescu – violinist</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Phillipe Entremont – pianist, composer, conductor</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Claudio Abbado - conductor, artist and composer</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Ricardo Abbado - conductor, artist and composer (nephew of Claudio)</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Tokyo String Quartet – all violinist</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Alexander Lazarev – conductor for Bolshoi Symphony</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Kurt Masur – conductor</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Leonard Slatkin – conductor</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Kathleen Battle – opera singer</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Janos Starker – violinist</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Miami String Quartet – all violinist</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">American Chamber Players – all violinist</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">American String Quartet – all violinist</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Ying Quartet – All 4</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Reiko Uchida – pianist</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Peter Mark – operatic singer, composer and conductor VSO</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Joann Falletta – conductor, composer</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Karl Haas – pianist, conductor, composer, radio host AIGM</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Pierre-Laurent Aimord – pianist</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Camp Kirkland – Christian composer, conductor, singer, pianist</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Squire Parsons – Christian composer</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Russell Mauldin – Christian composer</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Mikhail Petukhov – pianist</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Ray Walker – singer with the Jordanaires</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Dwane – autograph on cd</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Christopher Timothy – actor (All Creatures Great & Small)</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Larnell Harris – Christian Singer & composer</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Don Russell – Pianist met on cruise ship (Holiday)</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Kalichstein Laredo Robinson Trio – all 3</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Albert Wolff – Vocal and composition</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Art Hague – composer “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Carl Stalling – cartoon music</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Yo Yo Ma – cellist and composer</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Ramon Vargas – Opera singer (tenor)</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Martin O’donnell – Halo 1,2 & 3 composer</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Jeremy Soule - composer of Oblivion Elder Scrolls</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Stanton Lanier – pianist and composer (Christian)</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Mike Hughes Chamberlin – orchestra composer (Floating By)</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Zubin Metna – Conductor and composer</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Dariusz Skoraczewski – cellist (fellow of MSO)</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Heidi Williams – pianist accomp Dariusz</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Rachel Portman – composer</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">BruceBroughton – composer</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Elmer Bernstien – composer and conductor</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Jennifer Larmore – Opera Singer</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Gregory Vajada – conductor and composer</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Ben Zander – conductor and composer</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">George Skaroulis – pianist and composer</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Steve Haun – pianist and composer</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Tim Heintz - pianist and composer</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Richard Pearson Thomas - Murals in Dothan composer</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Jamie Eubanks - blues composer and artist</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">John Masenu - organist, Callaway Gardens</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Mei Ann Chen - composer and conductor of Atlanta Symphony Orchestra</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Stephen Hayes - composer, artist, teacher, Afro-American Music</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Thomas Hinds - conductor and artist for Montgomery Symphony</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Eric Whitacre - composer, vocal and artist</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Gerald Wolfe - composer, artist of Gospel Music</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Jeanne Shaffer - composer, artist, great friend of women composer music</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Mike Whetsel - composer, artist, vocal of Gospel Music</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Kyle Underwood - composer, artist, vocal of Gospel Music</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Richard and Robert Sherman - disney composers and artist</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Guarneri Quartet - all four</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">The Lark Quartet - all four</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Will Wiley - artist and composer</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Tim Laughlin - male vocalist, composer, artist</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Gaither Vocal Band -</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">James Glass - professor, pianist and composer</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Michael Shinn - composer, artist and teacher</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Marian McKay - female vocalist</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Skillet - all members</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Celtic Women - Chole and Lisa</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Jennifer Lamore - opera soprano</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">ASO conductor - Cinderella opera</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Tenor - Cinderella opera</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Dawn Upshaw - soprano</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Harold Rohlig - organist, composer and professor</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Thomas Britton - writter, composer and artist</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Jane Sentell - Music Appreciation Professor</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Pepper Choplin - composer, artist, church leader</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">George Gershwin - composer, artist</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Gearld Wirth - conductor of the Vienna Boys Choir and several members</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Andrew Lloyd Weber - composer, artist.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Danny Elfman - composer, artist</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Greater Vision - all three including Gerald Wolfe</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">** Victor Herbert - composer, artist, master of many things (most expensive autograph)</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">James Horner - composer, artist</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Mosie Lister - full autograph studio</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Leslie Caron - actress (of movie my fav Lili)</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> Lukas Karytinos (conductor), Dimitra Theodossiou (Norma), Dimitris Kavrakos (Oroveso), Angelo Simos (Pollione), Nikos Stefanou (Flavio) (all from the National Opera of Greece) June 12th 2010</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Charles Édouard Dutoit - conductor for the Philadelphia Orchestra</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Paul Groves - my favorite tenor. (his autograph the night I heard the Phil Orchestra)</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">SAKIS TOLIAS - GREEK COMPOSER (I hope to meet in Dec 2011 when I go back)</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Helen Bruner & Terry Jones - GRAMMY NOMINEES (I met in Philadelphia @ Phil Intl Records)</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Mikos Theodorakis - Greek COMPOSER</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Gene Montgomery - organist</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Christopher Confessore - Alabama Symphony Orchestra</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Robert Merrill - (1917 - 2004) American Opera Singer</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Richard Shermann - by himself autograph</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Xavier Quijas Yxayotl - Myan and Aztec music</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">It speaks but does not listen, it's comforting and not over bearing, it moves the soul and sometimes plucks your heart to do spontaneous things. At the impluse of a fraction of a second, a mind could be changed or decision could be altered. Meet my friend Music, first name Classical. For an estimated 35,000 years ago, (evidence of the first bone flute found in Germany), it has been around. I heard once from musicologist gathered around speaking that in the 12 tonal note system, if with the sharps and flats that combine with A through G, that there are a billion times a billion combinations of music, enough songs to last 675 million years, that is a lot of music. I'll be back to talk up some more music. <br /><br />>> GERMAN RESEARCHERS have discovered what is believed to be the world’s oldest musical instrument – a 35,000-year-old primitive flute fashioned from a vulture’s wing-bone. <br /><br />Some 20cm long with five finger holes, the instrument was found in the same cavern in southwestern Germany where archaeologists found a 35,000-year-old Venus figurine, believed to be the oldest sculpture of the human form. <br /><br />“It’s becoming increasingly clear that music was part of day-to-day life,” said Prof Nicholas Conard, the archaeologist who led the dig team from Tübingen University. <br /><br />“Music was used in many kinds of social contexts: perhaps religious, possibly recreational, much like how we use music today in different settings.” <br /><br />Three other flutes were found in the dig, made from mammoth ivory. “It’s really quite a surprise that these flutes were not just made from bird bones, which are hollow and ideal for making flutes, but also from mammoth ivory, a material that’s very hard to work,” he said. <br /><br />The instruments are not just proof of the age of man’s musical legacy, he said, but an indication that, even 35,000 years ago, our forefathers had leisure time for hand crafts. Humans of the time were no longer merely hunters and gatherers, but artists too. <br /><br />No one has tried to play the ancient flute – archaeologists assume the player blew through two V-shaped incisions in one end – but Conard said on German radio yesterday that a curious colleague had made a replica from vulture bone. “It sounded awful, really awful,” he said. <br /><br />Presenting their findings in the journal Nature, the Tübingen team suggested this early emergence of art could be a clue as to why early modern humans survived while the Neanderthals eventually died out. <br /><br />“Music may have contributed to the maintenance of larger social networks,” the researchers said. <br /><br />“This perhaps helped facilitate the demographic and territorial expansion of modern humans relative to a culturally more conservative and demographically more isolated Neanderthal populations.” <br /><br />There is little dispute that the instruments found by Conard are the world’s oldest, a title held until now by a group of 22 flutes found in the French Pyrenees and estimated to be 30,000 years old. <br /><br />The flutes were found in a cave near Ulm in Germany’s Swabia region, where Conard’s team have found dozens of priceless artifacts. Conard said it was “plausible” that the flutes were carved by the same people as the recently presented “Venus” figurine. <br /><br />>> At least 35,000 years ago, in the depths of the last ice age, the sound of music filled a cave in what is now southwestern Germany, the same place and time early Homo sapiens were also carving the oldest known examples of figurative art in the world. <br /><br />IDEAS & TRENDS: Pondering Prehistoric Melodies (June 28, 2009) <br />RSS Feed <br /><br />H. Jensen/University of Tübingen <br />Scientists say that this bone flute, found at Hohle Fels Cave in southwestern Germany, is at least 35,000 years old. <br />Music and sculpture — expressions of artistic creativity, it seems — were emerging in tandem among some of the first modern humans when they began spreading through Europe or soon thereafter. <br /><br />Archaeologists Wednesday reported the discovery last fall of a bone flute and two fragments of ivory flutes that they said represented the earliest known flowering of music-making in Stone Age culture. They said the bone flute with five finger holes, found at Hohle Fels Cave in the hills west of Ulm, was “by far the most complete of the musical instruments so far recovered from the caves” in a region where pieces of other flutes have been turning up in recent years. <br /><br />A three-hole flute carved from mammoth ivory was uncovered a few years ago at another cave, as well as two flutes made from the wing bones of a mute swan. In the same cave, archaeologists also found beautiful carvings of animals. <br /><br />But until now the artifacts appeared to be too rare and were not dated precisely enough to support wider interpretations of the early rise of music. The earliest solid evidence of musical instruments previously came from France and Austria, but dated much more recently than 30,000 years ago. <br /><br />In an article published online by the journal Nature, Nicholas J. Conard of the University of Tübingen, in Germany, and colleagues wrote, “These finds demonstrate the presence of a well-established musical tradition at the time when modern humans colonized Europe.” <br /><br />Although radiocarbon dates earlier than 30,000 years ago can be imprecise, samples from the bones and associated material were tested independently by two laboratories, in England and Germany, using different methods. Scientists said the data agreed on ages of at least 35,000 years. <br /><br />Dr. Conard, a professor of archaeology, said in an e-mail message from Germany that “the new flutes must be very close to 40,000 calendar years old and certainly date to the initial settlement of the region.” <br /><br />Dr. Conard’s team said an abundance of stone and ivory artifacts, flint-knapping debris and bones of hunted animals had been found in the sediments with the flutes. Many people appeared to have lived and worked there soon after their arrival in Europe, assumed to be around 40,000 years ago and 10,000 years before the native Neanderthals became extinct. <br /><br />The Neanderthals, close human relatives, apparently left no firm evidence of having been musical. <br /><br />The most significant of the new artifacts, the archaeologists said, was a flute made from a hollow bone from a griffon vulture; griffon skeletons are often found in these caves. The preserved portion is about 8.5 inches long and includes the end of the instrument into which the musician blew. The maker carved two deep, V-shaped notches there, and four fine lines near the finger holes. The other end appears to have been broken off; judging by the typical length of these bird bones, two or three inches are missing. <br /><br />Dr. Conard’s discovery in 2004 of the seven-inch three-hole ivory flute at the Geissenklösterle cave, also near Ulm, inspired him to widen his search of caves, saying at the time that southern Germany “may have been one of the places where human culture originated.” <br /><br />Friedrich Seeberger, a German specialist in ancient music, reproduced the ivory flute in wood. Experimenting with the replica, he found that the ancient flute produced a range of notes comparable in many ways to modern flutes. “The tones are quite harmonic,” he said. <br /><br />A replica has yet to be made of the recent discovery, but the archaeologists said they expected the five-hole flute with its larger diameter to “provide a comparable, or perhaps greater, range of notes and musical possibilities.” <br /><br />This week, Dr. Conard began a new season of exploration at Hohle Fels Cave. “We’ll see how it goes,” he said by e-mail. “I never have expectations. One never finds what one is looking for, but one normally finds something interesting.” <br /><br />Archaeologists and other scholars can only speculate as to what moved these early Europeans to make music. <br /><br />It so happens that the Hohle Fels flute was uncovered in sediments a few feet away from the carved figurine of a busty, nude woman, also around 35,000 years old, noted Dr. Conard and his co-authors, Susanne C. Münzel of Tübingen and Maria Malina of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. That discovery was announced in May by Dr. Conard. <br /><br />Was this evidence of happy hours after the hunt? Fertility rites or social bonding? The German archaeologists suggested that music in the Stone Age “could have contributed to the maintenance of larger social networks, and thereby perhaps have helped facilitate the demographic and territorial expansion of modern humans.” </span></div>
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