Tell me which one you like best (if any)

by Terry 16 Replies latest jw friends

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  Terry

  It is a good thing to have a hobby but it is an unfulfilling one because I don't have mainstream tastes.

  The sort of music I like to listen to bores most contemporary listeners. So, thanks for the kind words.

  I always had a secret desire to write music for movies but did not have the background, education or the connections. Had I been driven

  by personal ambition that would be no excuse, certainly:)

  It has been fun over the years to sit down and explicate a "mood" into tonalities. But, as I said, it is a personal thing.

  There is SO MUCH music available today you cannot expect people to listen to something outside their own particular tastes.

  Life is too short to waste...
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  Terry

  So, Terry, which one is your favorite?

  Well, the one that is most ME would be the Waltz because that is the sort of mood I live inside of most of the time.

  It's pretty ineffable, though.

  I would have thought the most accessible one would be the third one. See how wrong a composer can be? :)
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  Terry

  I searched for a dear friend of mine for over fifteen years every way I knew how. I'd write letters and check the Internet for a search now and again hoping something would turn up.

  Then, one day, I found something that looked like a High School reunion page from somewhere in Costa Mesa, California. It was a remembrace.

  My friend was being discussed by his old classmates from way back in High School!

  How unusual, I thought.

  But, as I read on I was suddenly aware...............it was a...memorial.

  He had died the very year I left California back in 83' and I never knew it!

  It hit me pretty hard thinking all those years he was out there....somewhere...if only I could reach him....and now I never would.

  I sat down in that mood and wrote this piece.

  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1595587/Barryesques/Remembering%20John.mp3
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  Hortensia

  I like that one too.
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  DATA-DOG

  #2 for me. I always feel sad when a season passes. That one had some discord ( if that is the right word ). Life aint always a bowl of cherries..
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  rip van winkle

  Terry-

  I always had a secret desire to write music for movies

  Now I understand why each of your compositions sounded like MOVIE music!!!

  I listened to the three numerous times on the day you posted them.

  My opinion doesn't matter one way or the other.

  But, now, you're getting it whether you want it or not!

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  All 3 reminded me of the 1970's style of movie music. That is NOT an insult. There are some wonderful romantic compositions from that era.

  I enjoyed all 3 of them.

  "Van Gogh Among the Sunflowers"- after listening the feeling I had , to put into words is Hope in Love

  "Waltz for Summer Ending"- reminded me of music that would accompany a pyschological love story, a searching for, a wondering where, a longing for and a haunting-ethereal a feeling of sadness, but hope of finding a - Lost Love

  "Wild For Kicks" - there were several consecutive notes that sounded like "Funeral for a Friend" , but somehow reminded me ala A Man and A Woman" type of composition. There was a discordant ending to the music.

  Terry, I can only explain the emotion I felt after listening.

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  And, I just read your post where you wrote that you were married 4 x's - so this REALLY all makes SENSE!!! (LOL)
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  Terry

  What You Mean to Me

  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1595587/Barryesques/What%20You%20Mean%20to%20Me.mp3

  I remember being 15 years old on an August evening with a neighbor girl standing in the shadows of a blazing moonrise.

  It would be her first kiss. Maybe it was mine, too. My brain wasn't exactly functioning.

  After a while she smiled at me, crossed the street and ran into her house while I stood there composing a silly poem in my befuddled head.

  "Her eyes can say what eyes should say and in the most delightful way....."

  Teenagers aren't like that anymore I don't suppose. Corny. Naive. Hopelessly romantic.

  That's what this music is all about.