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James Smith may be dead, but his music will live on…
Early Friday morning James slipped away with the angels, daughter Adrian by his side. They were listening to music, of course, Morten Lauridsen’s “Lux Aeterna”. About a week ago, his dear friend Endre Balogh visited and played him several movements of Unaccompanied Bach, “Dirait-On”, and “Danny Boy” (which he always “plays to summon the Angels”). […]
Listen to Caballo Viejo–rough
I haven’t written for a while. Just entirely too busy with the living to describe it, I guess. I’ve been running over to Denver, 280 miles, to record with Jim Ratts at Raven Recording, the past couple of weeks. First, it was coming too easily. Jim thought what I was doing was fine. But, I […]
Under the Bridge…I got it finished!!
In early May I was traveling over to Denver for a Chiropractic seminar. I had put the finishing touches on Lazy Waters and had been fighting back the rushing notes that had been haunting me for the second movement of The River, Under the Bridge. I still couldn’t play Lazy Waters as well as I […]
Lazy Waters, new classical composition as of May, 2010
I’m happy to tell you that I’ve been playing a lot. Though you wouldn’t know it based on my writing delinquency here at the blog. I’ll be playing at Cleland Park, tomorrow at noon in Delta, Colorado for about an hour during the yearly Deltarado Days celebration. Thank you for caring and for reading what […]
Can you “write” music with dyxlexia?!
Well, my compositions are making me crazy, again. I can’t sleep for the notes flying through my brain. It’s exhausting. It’s exciting. It’s inspiring. But, it makes me feel so out of control. I have no reins over these waves of insistence that come from inside of my head, my heart, my soul… The latest […]
Oh, Daddy — Happy Father’s Day song for Earl Kleinsorge, where ever you are…
To hear an audio clip of “Oh, Daddy” just scroll down and left click on the red title above the lyrics below. Happy Father’s Day!…. Today of course was Father’s Day. I missed you, Dad. But Mother was here, and she’s doing better. sigh…It was a good music and family day. The girls are home […]
Endre Balogh and James Smith critique Lazy River
Well, it’s been that time of year, again…a time of playing hours every day, scrambling to please the professors at the masters classes at Mesa State University. James and Endre come once a year. It’s always nerve racking because I feel like a child hoping for approval, but yearning to do better so needing the […]
Snow days on Grand Mesa–thought this was published earlier….sorry
We spent the afternoon bouncing down the hard and icy snow slopes near Ward Lake on the Grand Mesa. We live at the foot of Grand Mesa, beyond the foot hills that are called the Dobies. Our home is about 5,500 feet, where the weather is warm and sunny. The top of the Mesa is […]
“What a Wonderful World”
There are few songs in my performances that I didn’t write. “What a Wonderful World”, written by Bob Thiele and George David Weiss is one that I could have easily written from the expression of my own grateful heart. The only difference would be that this song repeats several times that “I think to myself, […]
America’s Got Talent
Friends and patients urged me to do an audition for America’s Got Talent. An interesting consideration. How would being successful in something like this effect my life? I talked it over with each of my children, one that understood immediately and didn’t like the idea and one that just wanted a ride in a limo […]