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Singing Ivories Newsletter
Updates, Valentines day, etc, 22 January 2009
Singing Ivories
Newsletter
Thursday, 22 January 2009
Written and published by
David Fritz Mr Music
Thursday, 22 January 2009
Written and published by
David Fritz Mr Music
Table of contents
1. Overture.
2. "What's new pussycat?".
3. Intermission: Can a Mozart violin sonata change your life?
4. "Don't forget to remember".
5. Encore.
1. Overture.
1. Overture.
2. "What's new pussycat?".
3. Intermission: Can a Mozart violin sonata change your life?
4. "Don't forget to remember".
5. Encore.
1. Overture.
I just can't believe time flies so
quickly.
I haven't even had time to catch up with all the admin from
last week's mailing and already I'm dicing the clock
to get this week's edition out, more or less on time.
A few people contacted me to say how much they enjoyed my newsletter.
Thank you very much to each of you who did.
Your comments are always very welcome.
Just click on "Reply", or send off a separate e-mail to me at
david@mr-music.co.za
I haven't even had time to catch up with all the admin from
last week's mailing and already I'm dicing the clock
to get this week's edition out, more or less on time.
A few people contacted me to say how much they enjoyed my newsletter.
Thank you very much to each of you who did.
Your comments are always very welcome.
Just click on "Reply", or send off a separate e-mail to me at
david@mr-music.co.za
If you have any specific questions or
requests, please
forward them too. I'm eager to hear from you.
2. "What's new pussycat?"
Where there's activity there's life.
I'm glad to say that there's definitely activity here:
as usual, lots of it.
Since I published my last newsletter quite a few new things
have come out the wash.
- Valentines day - 14 February
It's less than 23 days away!
Less than 23 days left for you to place your order for
the most special gift you can give your valentine.
"What's that?"
I have composed a special love song just for Valentines day.
It's called: "In Love".
You can order a very special and unique gift from me, just for your valentine:
- a CD of my special Valentines song, "In Love",
- with a photo you supply, maybe of your valentine or yourself, and
- your own special message printed on the front cover.
Unique, and very special, indeed!
The problem is I can only do so many between now and Valentines day. As
you can appreciate, it's a manual process, and time is limited.
I will only be able to make 200 of these unique CD's in the time
left between now and Valentines day.
So, what are you waiting for?
At only R99 per CD, postage/delivery included, there's surely
no more unique and special gift you can give that
very special someone!
Email your order to
david@mr-music.co.za
subject: Valentines CD.
I will respond with banking details and other info.
You make your payment and reply with the photo, message and delivery address.
That's all.
Just get your order in quickly!
If you know of someone else who would like to give a
special someone a very special gift, feel free to
pass this newsletter on to them so that they too can make use
of this very special and unique offer.
Remember: I can only make 200 CD's: that's it!
- Web site changes
Web sites are like gardens: they constantly need attention.
Web sites change just as gardens change through the seasons.
I have now added a newsletter archive to my site:
http://www.mr-music.co.za
forward them too. I'm eager to hear from you.
2. "What's new pussycat?"
Where there's activity there's life.
I'm glad to say that there's definitely activity here:
as usual, lots of it.
Since I published my last newsletter quite a few new things
have come out the wash.
- Valentines day - 14 February
It's less than 23 days away!
Less than 23 days left for you to place your order for
the most special gift you can give your valentine.
"What's that?"
I have composed a special love song just for Valentines day.
It's called: "In Love".
You can order a very special and unique gift from me, just for your valentine:
- a CD of my special Valentines song, "In Love",
- with a photo you supply, maybe of your valentine or yourself, and
- your own special message printed on the front cover.
Unique, and very special, indeed!
The problem is I can only do so many between now and Valentines day. As
you can appreciate, it's a manual process, and time is limited.
I will only be able to make 200 of these unique CD's in the time
left between now and Valentines day.
So, what are you waiting for?
At only R99 per CD, postage/delivery included, there's surely
no more unique and special gift you can give that
very special someone!
Email your order to
david@mr-music.co.za
subject: Valentines CD.
I will respond with banking details and other info.
You make your payment and reply with the photo, message and delivery address.
That's all.
Just get your order in quickly!
If you know of someone else who would like to give a
special someone a very special gift, feel free to
pass this newsletter on to them so that they too can make use
of this very special and unique offer.
Remember: I can only make 200 CD's: that's it!
- Web site changes
Web sites are like gardens: they constantly need attention.
Web sites change just as gardens change through the seasons.
I have now added a newsletter archive to my site:
http://www.mr-music.co.za
In the Newsletters section you will
be able to view all the previous
issues, as well as the current one.
Unfortunately Many of the newsletters I sent out last week were not
delivered. If you are one of the unlucky ones who did not receive yours, please
click on the link below to go to my site, then click on the newsletters link
and read it online.
http://www.mr-music.co.za
issues, as well as the current one.
Unfortunately Many of the newsletters I sent out last week were not
delivered. If you are one of the unlucky ones who did not receive yours, please
click on the link below to go to my site, then click on the newsletters link
and read it online.
http://www.mr-music.co.za
While at my site, please remember to
sign up for this newsletter,
if you have not done so. yet.
Even if you are already receiving this newsletter, please sign
up for it on the site.
I am in the process of moving over to a new system for mailing my
newsletters and I would hate for you to drop off my mailing list accidentally when
I switch over to the new system.
Remember: you will receive two full-length MP3's, just for
signing up for the newsletter at my site
- New story site
I have always told you I'm busy: here's more proof.
There's a brand-new site on the internet with the most delightful
animal stories, suitable for all age groups.
It is called Animal Zone.
Ellen Fritz writes stories and anecdotes, factual and
fiction, drawing on her more than forty years exposure to and experience with animals;
small and large, tame and some not so tame.
Do yourself a favour: just click on the link below and read one
of the stories for yourself.
http://www.mr-music.co.za/animalzone/
if you have not done so. yet.
Even if you are already receiving this newsletter, please sign
up for it on the site.
I am in the process of moving over to a new system for mailing my
newsletters and I would hate for you to drop off my mailing list accidentally when
I switch over to the new system.
Remember: you will receive two full-length MP3's, just for
signing up for the newsletter at my site
- New story site
I have always told you I'm busy: here's more proof.
There's a brand-new site on the internet with the most delightful
animal stories, suitable for all age groups.
It is called Animal Zone.
Ellen Fritz writes stories and anecdotes, factual and
fiction, drawing on her more than forty years exposure to and experience with animals;
small and large, tame and some not so tame.
Do yourself a favour: just click on the link below and read one
of the stories for yourself.
http://www.mr-music.co.za/animalzone/
Remember to add this site to your
favourites and go there regularly as.
new stories will be added weekly.
- The Ivory Club
The concept took me three years to develop.
The Ivory Club is a unique business opportunity especially for lovers of
piano and other keyboard music.
The main aim is promoting my piano and other keyboard music
through the sale of CD's and organizing live concerts, earning an
income for yourself from this and from other music-related sales and promotions.
Now you can enjoy your hobby, hours of recorded and live
piano and other keyboard music, while making
a part time or fulltime income for yourself.
To find out more, click on the link below:
http://www.mr-music.co.za/theivoryclub.htm
3. Intermission.
Can a Mozart violin sonata change your life?
by Alexander Green
Dear Reader,
We don't usually think about it, but there is something much "deeper"
about hearing than seeing, something that provokes a more powerful emotional response.
In the era of silent movies, for example, a pianist was required to
bring out the emotional significance of a love scene.
People who become deaf generally report feeling more isolated than
those who become blind.
Studies show that, without sound, we can watch a video of a wounded
animal or a person being tormented with relative equanimity.
But turn the sound on and - even without the
picture - it quickly becomes unbearable.
The human brain is exquisitely sensitive to sound. Yet what do most of
us hear in the background each day? Cars honking. Lawnmowers grinding. Dogs
barking. Radios blasting. Or the incessant chatter of the idiot box.
I was reminded of this in St. Petersburg Saturday, when I was chatting
with my good friend Rustem Hayroudinoff, a Russian classical pianist and Chandos
recording artist who, incidentally, had blown everyone away the night before with
a jaw-dropping performance at the Renaissance Vinoy.
Rustem is a great believer in the spiritual power of great music. He
calls it "liquid art." Aside from being a concert performer and recording artist,
Rustem teaches at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
He told me his toughest job is getting his students, some
of whom are headed for international stardom, to understand that music
is not just about perfecting the notes. It is
about expressing the deepest and most profound human emotions.
"When a member of the audience comes up to me after a performance," Rustem
confided, "and says 'I can't believe how fast your fingers were moving' or 'How
can you possibly remember all those notes?' I feel like they missed
the point, really. But when someone says, 'Rustem, that sonata you played brought
tears to my eyes,' I bow my head and say 'thank you' because they understood
what I was saying – and they were moved by it."
The wisest among us have always known this. The German poet Berthold Auerbach said
"music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." Victor Hugo
believed music expressed "that which cannot be said and on which it
is impossible to be silent."
Beethoven called it "the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."
Nietzche insisted that without music "life would be a mistake."
Yet the Recording Industry Association tells us that classical music today
makes up less than 3% of total industry sales.
Many of us are so busy working, playing or rushing to
our next appointment that we rarely take even a few minutes to appreciate it.
If this sounds like you, I have a suggestion. Pick up
a recording of Mozart's violin sonatas. With hundreds of great classical
works out there this may sound needlessly prescriptive, but stick with me a moment.
Mozart was a composer without equal. And his violin sonatas are
not only beautiful, they are eminently listenable - even to those who claim to have
no taste for serious music.
Tchaikovsky said "Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained
in the sphere of music."
Albert Einstein said, "The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty
that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part of the
inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed."
Don't get me wrong. I'm not a music snob. When I go to the beach, I
want to hear Bob Marley. If I'm having friends over for a barbecue, I'm
likely to put on Springsteen or Van Morrison.
But find a quiet moment to put on a Mozart violin sonata and,
instantly, the whole atmosphere changes. The room becomes an oasis of calm sophistication.
Put it on in your car and instead of feeling frustrated that you're stuck in traffic,
you're grateful to have a few quiet minutes to contemplate something so beautiful.
Serious listeners might fume that I'm suggesting you use these immortal works as
mood music, a kind of sonic wallpaper. But I'm not.
Yes, it may start out that way. But the longer you listen, the more that
will be revealed to you. Harmonies and melodies that escaped you at first eventually
become obvious. Keep listening and, at some point, you will be struck by the almost
mathematical beauty of it all.
I don't mean to rhapsodize here. True, I'm a music lover. But I'm
only pointing the way toward something that can have a powerful, positive impact
on you each day.
As Anthony Storr writes in "Music and the Mind," "Music exalts life, enhances life,
and gives it meaning… It is an irreplaceable, undeserved, transcendental blessing."
So get your hands on a Mozart violin sonata.
The human response to organized sound is a mysterious - some would say highly spiritual
- thing. No one truly understands it.
But as Aldous Huxley famously said, "After silence that which comes nearest
to expressing the inexpressible is music."
Carpe Diem,
Alex
This article was written by Alex Green from Spiritual Wealth.
new stories will be added weekly.
- The Ivory Club
The concept took me three years to develop.
The Ivory Club is a unique business opportunity especially for lovers of
piano and other keyboard music.
The main aim is promoting my piano and other keyboard music
through the sale of CD's and organizing live concerts, earning an
income for yourself from this and from other music-related sales and promotions.
Now you can enjoy your hobby, hours of recorded and live
piano and other keyboard music, while making
a part time or fulltime income for yourself.
To find out more, click on the link below:
http://www.mr-music.co.za/theivoryclub.htm
3. Intermission.
Can a Mozart violin sonata change your life?
by Alexander Green
Dear Reader,
We don't usually think about it, but there is something much "deeper"
about hearing than seeing, something that provokes a more powerful emotional response.
In the era of silent movies, for example, a pianist was required to
bring out the emotional significance of a love scene.
People who become deaf generally report feeling more isolated than
those who become blind.
Studies show that, without sound, we can watch a video of a wounded
animal or a person being tormented with relative equanimity.
But turn the sound on and - even without the
picture - it quickly becomes unbearable.
The human brain is exquisitely sensitive to sound. Yet what do most of
us hear in the background each day? Cars honking. Lawnmowers grinding. Dogs
barking. Radios blasting. Or the incessant chatter of the idiot box.
I was reminded of this in St. Petersburg Saturday, when I was chatting
with my good friend Rustem Hayroudinoff, a Russian classical pianist and Chandos
recording artist who, incidentally, had blown everyone away the night before with
a jaw-dropping performance at the Renaissance Vinoy.
Rustem is a great believer in the spiritual power of great music. He
calls it "liquid art." Aside from being a concert performer and recording artist,
Rustem teaches at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
He told me his toughest job is getting his students, some
of whom are headed for international stardom, to understand that music
is not just about perfecting the notes. It is
about expressing the deepest and most profound human emotions.
"When a member of the audience comes up to me after a performance," Rustem
confided, "and says 'I can't believe how fast your fingers were moving' or 'How
can you possibly remember all those notes?' I feel like they missed
the point, really. But when someone says, 'Rustem, that sonata you played brought
tears to my eyes,' I bow my head and say 'thank you' because they understood
what I was saying – and they were moved by it."
The wisest among us have always known this. The German poet Berthold Auerbach said
"music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." Victor Hugo
believed music expressed "that which cannot be said and on which it
is impossible to be silent."
Beethoven called it "the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."
Nietzche insisted that without music "life would be a mistake."
Yet the Recording Industry Association tells us that classical music today
makes up less than 3% of total industry sales.
Many of us are so busy working, playing or rushing to
our next appointment that we rarely take even a few minutes to appreciate it.
If this sounds like you, I have a suggestion. Pick up
a recording of Mozart's violin sonatas. With hundreds of great classical
works out there this may sound needlessly prescriptive, but stick with me a moment.
Mozart was a composer without equal. And his violin sonatas are
not only beautiful, they are eminently listenable - even to those who claim to have
no taste for serious music.
Tchaikovsky said "Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained
in the sphere of music."
Albert Einstein said, "The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty
that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part of the
inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed."
Don't get me wrong. I'm not a music snob. When I go to the beach, I
want to hear Bob Marley. If I'm having friends over for a barbecue, I'm
likely to put on Springsteen or Van Morrison.
But find a quiet moment to put on a Mozart violin sonata and,
instantly, the whole atmosphere changes. The room becomes an oasis of calm sophistication.
Put it on in your car and instead of feeling frustrated that you're stuck in traffic,
you're grateful to have a few quiet minutes to contemplate something so beautiful.
Serious listeners might fume that I'm suggesting you use these immortal works as
mood music, a kind of sonic wallpaper. But I'm not.
Yes, it may start out that way. But the longer you listen, the more that
will be revealed to you. Harmonies and melodies that escaped you at first eventually
become obvious. Keep listening and, at some point, you will be struck by the almost
mathematical beauty of it all.
I don't mean to rhapsodize here. True, I'm a music lover. But I'm
only pointing the way toward something that can have a powerful, positive impact
on you each day.
As Anthony Storr writes in "Music and the Mind," "Music exalts life, enhances life,
and gives it meaning… It is an irreplaceable, undeserved, transcendental blessing."
So get your hands on a Mozart violin sonata.
The human response to organized sound is a mysterious - some would say highly spiritual
- thing. No one truly understands it.
But as Aldous Huxley famously said, "After silence that which comes nearest
to expressing the inexpressible is music."
Carpe Diem,
Alex
This article was written by Alex Green from Spiritual Wealth.
I highly recommend you subscribe to
Spiritual Wealth by
clicking on the link below:
http://www.spiritualwealth.com/siup/signup.html
4. "Don't forget to remember"
Our lives are so full already and distractions pop up by the second;
it's so easy to forget, so here are a few reminders:
clicking on the link below:
http://www.spiritualwealth.com/siup/signup.html
4. "Don't forget to remember"
Our lives are so full already and distractions pop up by the second;
it's so easy to forget, so here are a few reminders:
- Special ends soon
Just a quick reminder that the special offer on my Anthology,
a set of all my CD's to date, ends on 31 January 2009.
Till then you can grab the set of 5 CD's, postage/delivery
included, for only $39.99.
Move quickly, before the exchange rate worsens or
time runs out.
- dates to diarize
03-04 April 2009
The 10th Annual Cape Town International Jazz Festival will
be held on Friday 3 and Saturday 4 April 2009 in
Cape Town at the Cape Town International Convention Centre.
More than 40 international and local artists will
be performing on five stages over the two days.
For more info, visit:
http://www.capetownjazzfest.com
04-11 April 2009
Just a quick reminder that the special offer on my Anthology,
a set of all my CD's to date, ends on 31 January 2009.
Till then you can grab the set of 5 CD's, postage/delivery
included, for only $39.99.
Move quickly, before the exchange rate worsens or
time runs out.
- dates to diarize
03-04 April 2009
The 10th Annual Cape Town International Jazz Festival will
be held on Friday 3 and Saturday 4 April 2009 in
Cape Town at the Cape Town International Convention Centre.
More than 40 international and local artists will
be performing on five stages over the two days.
For more info, visit:
http://www.capetownjazzfest.com
04-11 April 2009
Then Oudtshoorn is the place to be
for the
Klein Karoo National Arts Festival.
For more info visit the site.
http://www.kknk.co.za
- Things to do this week
Klein Karoo National Arts Festival.
For more info visit the site.
http://www.kknk.co.za
- Things to do this week
- Tell a joke
- Laugh from your belly
- Give an item, not cash, to a stranger
- Order the special Valentines' CD
- Buy a copy of Soothing Ivories volume 1
- Pass this newsletter to someone
Any requests?
Please feel free to e-mail them to me at:
david@mr-music.co.za
5. Encore
This time round it's already Friday evening as I'm putting the
final touches on this newsletter.
Please feel free to forward this copy to your friends and colleagues!
May you have a splendid weekend.
In the words of the song, Thou Shall Enjoy, by Scott Johnson:
"Thou shall enjoy;
"thou shall explore;
thou shall embrace;
thou shall seek more;
thou shall be happy where you are;
while following what's in your heart;
thou shall be dancing in the street;
thou shall see God in those you meet;
thou shall enjoy!"
- Laugh from your belly
- Give an item, not cash, to a stranger
- Order the special Valentines' CD
- Buy a copy of Soothing Ivories volume 1
- Pass this newsletter to someone
Any requests?
Please feel free to e-mail them to me at:
david@mr-music.co.za
5. Encore
This time round it's already Friday evening as I'm putting the
final touches on this newsletter.
Please feel free to forward this copy to your friends and colleagues!
May you have a splendid weekend.
In the words of the song, Thou Shall Enjoy, by Scott Johnson:
"Thou shall enjoy;
"thou shall explore;
thou shall embrace;
thou shall seek more;
thou shall be happy where you are;
while following what's in your heart;
thou shall be dancing in the street;
thou shall see God in those you meet;
thou shall enjoy!"
Love and good music
David
Mr Music
Music with impact ...
(c) 072-265-3963
David
Mr Music
Music with impact ...
(c) 072-265-3963
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