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Singing Ivories Newsletter
Updates and gifts galore 15 January 2009
Singing Ivories
Newsletter
Thursday, 15 January 2009
Written and published by
David Fritz Mr Music
Thursday, 15 January 2009
Written and published by
David Fritz Mr Music
Table of contents
1. Overture.
2. "New kid in town".
3. Intermission: No one is blinder than he who will not see.
4. "I do, I do, I do".
5. Encore.
1. Overture.
2. "New kid in town".
3. Intermission: No one is blinder than he who will not see.
4. "I do, I do, I do".
5. Encore.
1. Overture.
Firstly, it is my sincere wish for you that
2009 be your greatest year ever!
May we always remind each other that life is for living: it's all
about experiencing, loving and sharing. Work and
all such activities is only a means to an end: don't let
it become an obsession and rob us of the joys of life.
No money can replace you being there when your child
runs his first race, at a friend or colleague's funeral, or at
a loved one's side who is dealing with trauma.
Let's make it a year in which we put meaningful
relationships first.
2. "New kid in town"
Named after the Eagle's song,
it should actually read: New kids in town,
since I have several kids to introduce to you.
it should actually read: New kids in town,
since I have several kids to introduce to you.
- Web sites
- Have you been to my sites lately?
"What site?" I hear many ask.
Well, in 2005 I already registered two domains,
http://www.mr-music.co.za
and
http://www.singingivories.com.
Yes, then already I wanted to put up websites.
Since then there have been several attempts uploaded and taken
down again. Because they were "attempts", well-meant intentions, but not really something, so I never really advertised their presence. After all, would you feel comfortable giving people your
street address if you lived in a tin shack on an overgrown stand?
All through 2008 I worked and again something went up, and
you guessed, came down again.
But I'm happy to report that one of my goals for 2008 was
realized: getting functioning web sites up and running.
- Have you been to my sites lately?
"What site?" I hear many ask.
Well, in 2005 I already registered two domains,
http://www.mr-music.co.za
and
http://www.singingivories.com.
Yes, then already I wanted to put up websites.
Since then there have been several attempts uploaded and taken
down again. Because they were "attempts", well-meant intentions, but not really something, so I never really advertised their presence. After all, would you feel comfortable giving people your
street address if you lived in a tin shack on an overgrown stand?
All through 2008 I worked and again something went up, and
you guessed, came down again.
But I'm happy to report that one of my goals for 2008 was
realized: getting functioning web sites up and running.
Now they're there.
Click on the links below and visit the sites - they
are not palaces yet, but they are fully functional homes where
I can entertain you now.
Surprise!
While there be sure to sign up for my newsletter, even
if you are already receiving it.
Why?
Because you will be receiving not one, but two
free full-length MP3's, Ripples and Fairy Tread, my own
compositions, just for signing up.
http://www.mr-music.co.za.
http://www.singingivories.com.
Did you notice you can now buy my CD's directly from my websites?
Payment processing is done through Paypal,
offering secure payment processing and you can
pay per credit card too!
Click on the links below and visit the sites - they
are not palaces yet, but they are fully functional homes where
I can entertain you now.
Surprise!
While there be sure to sign up for my newsletter, even
if you are already receiving it.
Why?
Because you will be receiving not one, but two
free full-length MP3's, Ripples and Fairy Tread, my own
compositions, just for signing up.
http://www.mr-music.co.za.
http://www.singingivories.com.
Did you notice you can now buy my CD's directly from my websites?
Payment processing is done through Paypal,
offering secure payment processing and you can
pay per credit card too!
- CD's
I planned on recording 3 CD's in
2008.
I managed 2 and 2/3. Since 2/3 does not count, let's
concentrate on the 2.
On Mothers day I released
Ivories in Love volume 1.
I managed 2 and 2/3. Since 2/3 does not count, let's
concentrate on the 2.
On Mothers day I released
Ivories in Love volume 1.
http://www.singingivories.com/ivoriesinlovevolume1.htm
It's an album of covers, my versions of other people's
love songs.
The album features favourites like
Unchained melody, Feelings, Andante Andante, and many more.
And here's my baby!
My latest album,
Soothing Ivories volume 1.
It has only been available since December, so most of you don't have it yet.
I am very proud to say that I composed every number on this album. Yes, at last,
an entire album of own compositions.
It's an album of covers, my versions of other people's
love songs.
The album features favourites like
Unchained melody, Feelings, Andante Andante, and many more.
And here's my baby!
My latest album,
Soothing Ivories volume 1.
It has only been available since December, so most of you don't have it yet.
I am very proud to say that I composed every number on this album. Yes, at last,
an entire album of own compositions.
Read more about the album and listen to
demo tracks, then place your order
while you're there:
http://www.singingivories.com/soothingivoriesvolume1.htm.
Psst! Did you see the price is in dollars?
thus good exchange rate equals an even better price for you,
so act now before the exchange rate weakens even more!
demo tracks, then place your order
while you're there:
http://www.singingivories.com/soothingivoriesvolume1.htm.
Psst! Did you see the price is in dollars?
thus good exchange rate equals an even better price for you,
so act now before the exchange rate weakens even more!
- Blog
I've started my own blog too. It's called
The world of piano music.
I've started my own blog too. It's called
The world of piano music.
I write about my life in music, about music
and music related themes.
Please visit my blog and let me know what you think:
http://www.mr-music.co.za/blog.
and music related themes.
Please visit my blog and let me know what you think:
http://www.mr-music.co.za/blog.
3. Intermission.
No one is blinder than he who will not
see
by Alexander Green
Dear Reader,
Last April in Washington D.C., a young man in blue jeans
and a T-shirt emerged from the metro and
positioned himself against a wall beside a trash basket.
He removed a violin from a small case, threw in a few dollars and pocket change as seed money, and began to play.
Over the next 45 minutes, more than 1,000 people passed by.
Six minutes elapsed before anyone stopped to listen. A crowd
never gathered. In fact, only seven people stopped to listen for a minute or more.
When he was finished, the young man collected
the few extra dollars from his violin case and left.
What's so unusual about this?
Nothing, apparently.
However, the violinist was no ordinary street performer. It was Joshua Bell, one of the finest
classical musicians in the world, playing some of the most elegant music ever written, on one of the most valuable
violins ever created, a $3.5 million
Stradivarius made in the 1710s.
He was participating in an experiment on "perception and priorities" arranged by The Washington Post.
Three days before, Bell had sold out Boston's Symphony Hall, where the cheap seats went for $100 a piece. Two weeks
later, he played to a standing-room-only audience
at the Music Center at Strathmore, in North Bethesda.
Just how good is
Joshua Bell
? One prominent music magazine says his playing "does nothing less than tell human
beings why they bother to live."
Despite his genius, not 1% of more than 1,000 passers-by stopped to listen for even
one minute.
Some folks, of course, will attribute this to the general public's abysmal taste
in music. But I think something more was going on here.
And it has nothing to do with musical tastes
or even the hectic pace of modern life.
After all, Helen Keller noticed much the same thing more than 70 years ago - and
she was deaf and blind. Writing in
The Atlantic Monthly in 1933, she said,
"Recently I was visited by a very good friend who had just returned from
a long walk in the woods, and I asked her what she had observed.
'Nothing in particular,' she
replied. I might have been incredulous had I not been accustomed to such responses,
for long ago I became convinced that the seeing see little.
"How was it possible, I asked myself, to walk for an hour through the woods
and see nothing of note? I who cannot see find hundreds
of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel
the delicate symmetry of a leaf. I pass my hands lovingly about
the smooth skin of a birch, or the rough, shaggy, bark of a pine.
In spring I touch the branches of trees hopefully in search of a bud...
I feel the delightful, velvety texture of
a flower... I am delighted to have the cool waters of a brook rush through
my open fingers. To me a lush carpet of pine needles or
spongy grass is more welcome than the
most luxurious Persian rug.
"If I can get so much pleasure from mere touch, how much more beauty
must be revealed by sight. Yet, those
who have eyes apparently see little. The
panorama of color and action which fills the
world is taken for granted.
It is human, perhaps, to appreciate
little that which we have and to long for that which we have not,
but it is a great pity that in the world of light
the gift of sight is used only as a mere convenience
rather than a means of adding fullness to life."
I won't comment further on these two stories. They
speak volumes by themselves.
However, I will add one brief quote from John Horgan, author of
"Rational Mysticism":
"The best spiritual advice is the simplest: Pay attention.
See! Or rather, cherish.
Cherish what you have before it's gone."
Carpe Diem,
Alex
To subscribe to Spiritual Wealth, click on the link below:
http://www.spiritualwealth.com/siup/signup.html
by Alexander Green
Dear Reader,
Last April in Washington D.C., a young man in blue jeans
and a T-shirt emerged from the metro and
positioned himself against a wall beside a trash basket.
He removed a violin from a small case, threw in a few dollars and pocket change as seed money, and began to play.
Over the next 45 minutes, more than 1,000 people passed by.
Six minutes elapsed before anyone stopped to listen. A crowd
never gathered. In fact, only seven people stopped to listen for a minute or more.
When he was finished, the young man collected
the few extra dollars from his violin case and left.
What's so unusual about this?
Nothing, apparently.
However, the violinist was no ordinary street performer. It was Joshua Bell, one of the finest
classical musicians in the world, playing some of the most elegant music ever written, on one of the most valuable
violins ever created, a $3.5 million
Stradivarius made in the 1710s.
He was participating in an experiment on "perception and priorities" arranged by The Washington Post.
Three days before, Bell had sold out Boston's Symphony Hall, where the cheap seats went for $100 a piece. Two weeks
later, he played to a standing-room-only audience
at the Music Center at Strathmore, in North Bethesda.
Just how good is
Joshua Bell
? One prominent music magazine says his playing "does nothing less than tell human
beings why they bother to live."
Despite his genius, not 1% of more than 1,000 passers-by stopped to listen for even
one minute.
Some folks, of course, will attribute this to the general public's abysmal taste
in music. But I think something more was going on here.
And it has nothing to do with musical tastes
or even the hectic pace of modern life.
After all, Helen Keller noticed much the same thing more than 70 years ago - and
she was deaf and blind. Writing in
The Atlantic Monthly in 1933, she said,
"Recently I was visited by a very good friend who had just returned from
a long walk in the woods, and I asked her what she had observed.
'Nothing in particular,' she
replied. I might have been incredulous had I not been accustomed to such responses,
for long ago I became convinced that the seeing see little.
"How was it possible, I asked myself, to walk for an hour through the woods
and see nothing of note? I who cannot see find hundreds
of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel
the delicate symmetry of a leaf. I pass my hands lovingly about
the smooth skin of a birch, or the rough, shaggy, bark of a pine.
In spring I touch the branches of trees hopefully in search of a bud...
I feel the delightful, velvety texture of
a flower... I am delighted to have the cool waters of a brook rush through
my open fingers. To me a lush carpet of pine needles or
spongy grass is more welcome than the
most luxurious Persian rug.
"If I can get so much pleasure from mere touch, how much more beauty
must be revealed by sight. Yet, those
who have eyes apparently see little. The
panorama of color and action which fills the
world is taken for granted.
It is human, perhaps, to appreciate
little that which we have and to long for that which we have not,
but it is a great pity that in the world of light
the gift of sight is used only as a mere convenience
rather than a means of adding fullness to life."
I won't comment further on these two stories. They
speak volumes by themselves.
However, I will add one brief quote from John Horgan, author of
"Rational Mysticism":
"The best spiritual advice is the simplest: Pay attention.
See! Or rather, cherish.
Cherish what you have before it's gone."
Carpe Diem,
Alex
To subscribe to Spiritual Wealth, click on the link below:
http://www.spiritualwealth.com/siup/signup.html
4. "I do, I do, I do"
I'm spinning, a bit out of control, but at least
I'm still spinning.
There are just so many things I want to do, so many
plans, but just one of me.
- I want to send my newsletter out weekly,
as I have been intending the past three years.
- I want to write articles for my blog daily,
and currently I'm falling short on that goal.
If you were with me you would see that I'm up
and working from 05h30 in the morning,
mostly till after 22h00 at night, yet there are things undone.
But I'm going to do it.
- I am going to send out my newsletter weekly,
- I'm going to write at least two articles for my blog per week,
- I'm going to record 3 CD's for you this year,
I'm going to build a marketing machine!
Any requests from your side?
Please e-mail them to me at:
david@mr-music.co.za
- I am going to send out my newsletter weekly,
- I'm going to write at least two articles for my blog per week,
- I'm going to record 3 CD's for you this year,
I'm going to build a marketing machine!
Any requests from your side?
Please e-mail them to me at:
david@mr-music.co.za
5. Encore
Its Wednesday evening already as I'm putting the
final touches on this newsletter.
Please feel free to forward this copy to your friends and colleagues!
Time to go now.
There are so many good intentions, yet so many challenges.
May all our plans come to fruition.
Till next week.
Love and good music
David
Mr Music
Music with impact ...
(c) 072-265-3963
Its Wednesday evening already as I'm putting the
final touches on this newsletter.
Please feel free to forward this copy to your friends and colleagues!
Time to go now.
There are so many good intentions, yet so many challenges.
May all our plans come to fruition.
Till next week.
Love and good music
David
Mr Music
Music with impact ...
(c) 072-265-3963
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