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Dear Friends: Happy New Year 2008! May this be the best year of your life! It's a new year, Christmas is past, and it's time to share the latest Heartsong Music news. Welcome to new subscribers! Contents: My song “Hold Fast To Your Dream” has been put on rotation and is receiving quite a bit of airplay on the station SeeQ. You can access this station and listen free by going to the website: www.quantumquest.org and then clicking on the “listen to SEEQ Radio” section. It is a station that specializes in positive music and was created as a home for “New Thought” music, which they feel is an unrecognized genre. Give it a listen; you can rate songs with thumbs up or down, so be sure to give my song a thumbs up if and when you hear it! Those that are not rated well are taken off the air at the end of the month! My friend, Lora Mills, has a wonderful voice and she is the soloist on my song. She made the initial contact with this station. Way to go, Lora! I wrote this song at a time in my life of indecision and the words say it all: Hold fast to your dream.
Never waiver, never give it away.
Keep your dream close at hand, in plain view,
And you'll never be without a sure direction for life.
Only you can be
The keeper of your dream, the sower of your gift,
Hold fast to your dream.The lightning rod of your scheme. I was commissioned to write a piece for Contrabassoon by Susan Nigro, a well-known contra recitalist, and I entitled it “A Day at the Park.” Susan has just informed me that this piece will be included on her next Contrabassoon CD, due out soon. That is exciting as it will give the piece a wider audience. It is my second commissioned contrabassoon piece for her. My first piece, “Ponderings from the Pond,” was published by Jeanné and Susan put it on her CD, “New Tunes for the Big Bassoon.” You can get a copy of her CD by going to Amazon at New Tunes for the Big Bassoon. If you know of a Contrabassoon or Bassoonist, the score can be purchased from Jeanné, Inc. “Ponderings” has been performed across the U.S. and in Great Britain. “A Day At the Park” was written to represent a child's excitement about going to the park. It has three parts: Part I: “Hooray! We're here!”—an Allegro movement;
Part II: “Soliloquy on the Clouds”—Andante; and
Part III: “Catching Butterflies”—Allegro.
You can hear the piano transcription I did on “Soliloquy on the Clouds” on my CD, “Refreshing Rain”; it is song Number 13, and can be heard at http://www.annmariekurrasch.com/refreshing_rain. It is an unusually warm and mellow piece, especially for the very deep sounds of a contrabassoon.
Talk about parks, going to the park is the best part of the visit when Jack and Charlie and family come down from San Francisco. We take our silky, Barney, and sing our “Going to the Park” song that I wrote for Jack. Jack is now almost 4 and has always been a wonderful singer. Charlie, at 18 months, is starting to get the hang of it. I've written the boys lots of songs, beginning with their very own lullabies as newborns. You can hear one of Jack's at: http://www.annmariekurrasch.com/refreshing_rain/11.html. He is very proud to sing the song “My name is John Richard Orbaugh.” My most recent song for them is “The Orbaugh Family Grace.” They sing it every night around their dinner table. My goal is to provide this free on my website for other families to incorporate their own family name and sing as a grace. Singing with children is so important and necessary. If you haven't visited my website in a while, you can hear excerpts of songs I've written for special occasions at: http://www.annmariekurrasch.com/. The site was built and is kept up by my editor, Peter Kurrasch. We are in the process of updating the site and making more songs available for free download so check back with us in a few weeks. When on my site, be sure and take a moment to send me an email at the “Contact” tab and let me know what you think of the site as we are always trying to keep it “current.” That's all for now, so THANKS for reading....... Shalom and Ciao, |
