Pianist David Fritz Mr Music - newsletters

Since 15 January 2009 Singing Ivories is a weekly publication.
For your convenience all issues are now stored online.
Please click on the following link to read any issue online:
http://www.mr-music.co.za/newsletters.htm

 

1.  Overture.

 

So here we are, officially out of summer and into autumn.
Am I imagining things, or has it been a bit too windy for
this time of year?
 
I have always enjoyed April: when the excessive heat of summer is gone,
but the cold of winter has not set in yet.
Also there are all the public holidays, normally falling in and around
April: the Easter week-end, Freedom day, and Workers day!

 

Did you enjoy the new feature that I built into my newsletter,
the links to click on to let you listen to the music I am
referring to?
 
Please send me an e-mail to let me know:
david@mr-music.co.za
 
Right, let me see what I can dig up to make this Autumn memorable for
you!

 

2.  "a new adventure".

 

Click on the following link to listen to an excerpt from the
song, "A new adventure", by Jerry and Esther Hicks (Abraham Hicks):
http://www.mr-music.co.za/sample-0004.mp3

 

This week's piece with "new" in the title is the
song, "A new adventure".
 
Don't the words grab you?
 
I am running out of options for songs with the word "new"
in the title, so I will have to start looking at songs where the word
"new" appears somewhere in the lyrics.

 

You are welcome to help me, of course. Just mail me some
song titles with the word "new" in them, or the titles
of songs where the word "new" appears in the lyrics.

 

I have started many new things since the beginning of the year,
and thus there's still plenty from recently announced "new" items,
for you to catch up with.

 

Here then, is this week's offering:

 

- Musical term explained: Piano

 

Apart from referring to the musical instrument, the term
"piano" is an Italian music term meaning soft,
and the word is pronounced pee-aah-no.
If music is to be played soft, it is indicated by placing the letter p
in the music score.

 

- Music samples in my newsletter
 
Just another reminder of a recent improvement to
my newsletter.
 
As from last week there are samples of the songs
I refer to in my newsletters, for you to ``listen to.
 
Just click on the links provided. The samples are in MP3 format and
your PC should start playing them automatically, using your installed
sound equipment.

 

Any comments on this?
 
Enjoying it, or must I stop doing it?
 
Just let me know at:
david@mr-music.co.za

 

- Rescue Squad

 

Yet another new story will be up on Animal Zone for you
to sample: only from Friday evening on.

 

Meg, an abandoned Border Collie's, puppies were swept into a narrow
hole by a mud slide. Now what?!
 
Read it at:
http://www.mr-music.co.za/animalzone/

 

Please use the link at the bottom of the story page itself
to pass your comments to Ellen.
 
- Private functions

 

- Having an awards ceremony or product launch?
Celebrating a birthday, an anniversary or any other milestone?
Having your boss, the priest or Zuma over for dinner?
Fund raising for a church or charity, or for yourself?
Getting married, divorced, circumcised or just celebrating life?
 
Why not turn it into an unforgettable occasion with me providing the
music?
 
Near or far, for 2 or 200, at dusk or dawn:
I will come and add my magic touch to turn your event into
something memorable.
 
Not to mention the publicity you'll get via my site and newsletter!

 

You know the drill by now: just e-mail me with details,
I will respond with a written quote, then we'll take things from there.
So just e-mail me at:
david@mr-music.co.za

 

 
3.  Intermission.

 

For those feeling sorrow about anything
by Brian Vaszily, Founder of IntenseExperiences.com and Creator
and Voice of The 9 Intense Experiences.
 
Dedicated to My Beloved Father, Whose 13-Year-Old Son Was Killed When I
Was Three, and to IntenseExperiences.com Reader Pamela from Missouri,
Who Lost Her Son When He Was 18 and Wrote, “I am so thankful God gave
me my only son and child for 18-1/2 years.”
 
It is our human inclination to want to feel good. To be happy. That is
what we do and should strive toward – happiness. But that does not mean
that you won’t experience sorrow.
 
If you live life, sorrow will happen. The more you live, and the more
you love, the greater the rewards, but also the greater the sorrows.
 
Some of these sorrows will come and then eventually go. But other
sorrows are so deep that they will remain for good.
 
For example, the sorrow of breaking up with a first girlfriend or
boyfriend, while it can be remarkably intense at the time, will fade over the years into
a learning experience, one you may even smile at someday.

 

The sorrow of losing a child, on the other hand, will remain a part of
you for as long as you remain. Whether it may someday fade or forever linger, when
you are amidst it, sorrow is sorrow. The pain cannot be rationalized away. The pain
cannot be masked.
 
Nor, however, does the sorrow mean you are not allowed to feel
happiness. Indeed, the sorrow is there to be embraced so that, even
through it, you may feel a greater sense of joy. Not necessarily the
joy of immediate laughter, but the deeper joy of gratitude.
 
Instead of trying to run from or mask sorrow, it is there to be
embraced and nurtured.

 

Sorrow means you were given a gift;  that pain means you were given
something worth rejoicing in.
 
In a world with absolutely no guarantees, you were granted
something beautiful for a while. Whether it was a relationship or
another being that was important to your being or something else, you
were granted a gift so worthwhile that sorrow has blossomed inside you
now that the something is gone.
 
Imagine a world without such gifts. That would be true tragedy.

 

“Tis better to have loved and to have lost then to have never loved at
all.” As usual, the Bard was right.
 
Amidst your sadness, rejoice that you were given something that is
worth the sorrow you feel now that it is gone. All things including
sorrow have a side that points toward shade and a side that points
toward sun; be sure to also dwell on this sun side of the sorrow … the
beauty, the joy, the gift of whatever or whomever you were
given, in whatever amount of time it was granted to you in its physical
form.
 
And if, by the way, you feel you did not cherish
the gift that is now gone enough while it was here, recognize these
two keys: first, just as you forgive others for being human, you must
forgive yourself. Think of someone you love dearly – perhaps this is
the very person you are feeling sorrow over – and then ask yourself
what you’d forgive them for. Are you not worth that same level of
compassion?
 
Second, remember that you have done something right enough to recognize
the value of the gift … you don’t feel sorrow for something you don’t
cherish. And it is never too late to feel such gratitude, to cherish.

 

That is the beauty of the gift.
 
You may no longer be able to get what or who it is that you hurt for
back. But the bounty of the gift remains. Your sorrow proves it.
 
So embrace it. It will help you remain aware of the greater happiness
that the sorrow is wrapped within. It will help you move toward all the
joys you so deserve. And there are plenty of them. They too are waiting
for you.

 

For info or comments on this article, please contact me at:
david@mr-music.co.za

 

4.  "Memory".

 

I always try and find a song with "remember" or remind"
in the title for this section of the newsletter,
as this is the section in which I remind you of some important dates
and/or things to do.
 
The song I chose for this issue is
"Memory", a well-known Andrew Lloyd Webber composition from the musical
"Cats".

 

Click on the link below to listen to a sample of the song:
http://www.mr-music.co.za/sample-0005.mp3

 

Make this week memorable by diarizing and
doing as suggested below:
 
- DATES TO DIARIZE

 

- 24 May - Comrades Marathon "down" run
- Any consecutive long weekends you want to turn into a holiday?
 
- THINGS TO DO THIS WEEK
 
- Eat dried fruit
- Visit a nursery
- Pay someone's parking for them at a mall
- Take a cake or tart to an elderly couple/person
- Print out one of the stories from the Animal Zone and leave it
  in a waiting room for others to read

 

 
5.  Encore

 

"The first step toward change is acceptance.
Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change.
That's all you have to do.
Change is not something you do, it's something you allow."
- Will Garcia

 

We often fight with ourselves. We are angry, or sometimes
plainly disgusted with who and what we are, and as such
we don't accept ourselves, in fact, we sometimes get pretty
close to hating ourselves.

 

Why? Because the way we are does not add up to
the way others want us to be, and we are so busy trying to
please them, we forget that our first responsibility lies with
ourselves.

 

People have taken the phrase, "I must be the least", and
misinterpretted it as meaning "I don't matter".

 

If that were true, what are you doing here then?
If you don't matter, why were you born?

 

Each one has a life and a life purpose to live and fulfill,
male or female, black or white, married or single!

 

You can change your marriage status, even your gender nowadays,
but it does not detract from your responsibility to live a life
true to yourself, first and foremost.

 

Change is knocking at the door, but you are shouting so loud
at yourself, you can't even here Change knock and let it in!

 

So, will you calm down, accept yourself, just as you are, right now, 
and allow change in?

 

With the Summer sun making place for the Autumn sun,
yes, another change, I say bye with the words from the ever popular
"A love so beautiful", composed by Roy Orbison and Jeff Lynne, sung by

 

Michael Bolton, although some of you may be more familiar with the Roy
Orbison version.

 

Click on this link to listen to a snippet from the song:
http://www.mr-music.co.za/sample-0006.mp3

 

"The summer sun looked down On our love long ago;
but in my heart I feel The same old afterglow.
 
A love so beautiful, in every way;
a love so beautiful, we let it slip away.
 
We were too young to understand, to ever know;
that lovers drift apart and that's the way love goes.
 
A love so beautiful, a love so sweet;
a love so beautiful, a love for you and me.
 
And I, when I think of you, I fall in love again!
 
A love so beautiful, in every way;
a love so beautiful, we let it slip away.
 
A love so beautiful, in every way;
a love so beautiful, we let it slip away."