This one has a sad feel. What I like about it is that you seem in tune spiritually with whoever is playing the sad song. You say so much with these lines! Excellent work:) Blessings in 2008!
Sheila
I love this gentle approach to what can often be assumed to be the rather bold and brassy section of the orchestra. Yet, as my son used to play trumpet, I know just how soulful and moving brass can be - as Andy said below, in fact. Thank you for this mind-tingling write. Kate xx
Wonderful poem, Elizabeth. I have always loved the sound of brass, and I think the trumpet is terribly underrated. I played it in junior high and did not begin to do it justice. Enjoyed this very much!
Jean
Reviewed by Andy Turner (Reader)
Reviewed on August 7, 2007
For love lost with the fading sound <--- Visions of bugler playing whilst the fallen are burried in battle.. Great poem, amazing line...
Jazz as a way of making sorrow a friend of sorts. Close your eyes and hear the sadness yet sway with the beat of the lost heart. Very well written Liz. I loved it!
ooo... a most yummy way to end this piece.
the way you tell this i can hear the horn section and i can hear the ladies singing the blues... gah... i want to be one of them when i grow up... the way they flirt with the trumpet... just magic.
right from the outset this piece is destined to be something.
something in the use of mournful in such a beautiful way dictates that not all mourning is a hideous thing...
sometimes its okay to feel surrounded by blue
especially if it is under these terms =)
“The woman or man who is a poet, or fiction writer, or playwright, or all of these, is engaged constantly in a jazz ballet of vocabularies, passions, genders, histories, perspectives, death, love, and life. The music of revelation announces itself to
“The woman or man who is a poet, or fiction writer, or playwright, or all of these, is engaged constantly in a jazz ballet of vocabularies, passions, genders, histories, perspectives, death, love, and life. The music of revelation announces itself to
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This one has a sad feel. What I like about it is that you seem in tune spiritually with whoever is playing the sad song. You say so much with these lines! Excellent work:) Blessings in 2008!
Sheila
I am a music lover and receptive to these words.
Axilea
Regis
Jean
George
ooo... a most yummy way to end this piece.
the way you tell this i can hear the horn section and i can hear the ladies singing the blues... gah... i want to be one of them when i grow up... the way they flirt with the trumpet... just magic.
right from the outset this piece is destined to be something.
something in the use of mournful in such a beautiful way dictates that not all mourning is a hideous thing...
sometimes its okay to feel surrounded by blue
especially if it is under these terms =)
stunning.