@@calvinwong8757 Thank you so much for your kind words and welcome! 😊

@@AltoonaYourPiano Thank you!

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@@BeckyKorroch Thank you!

@@musicroom7185 Thanks, man!

@@user-yd3hp7gy8p No, just enjoying conjuring a storm lol

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@@lindajeancountrymusic Thank you 😊✨

It is such a lovely song !!! It speaks to my soul

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@@musicroom7185 Maybe I should play some of my work backwards sometime 🤔... Yes, staying cool. We had so much rain from the hurricane last week that it's oversaturated my tomatoes, hope they come back... you get any of the storm in your area? We had some flooding from it (I'm in southeast Michigan)

@@solitarymusician We are under a heat advisory today.."Feels like" temps above 110. We had maybe 3 inches in total over the course of several days, so was good for the garden. Had the first tomatoes of the season last night...as is always the case, the early ones are not too great, but it's still nice to get them rolling. My town is right on the Mississippi river, so if it is flooding up your way, we will eventually get it.

@@musicroom7185 Ha... funny, we're discussing tomatoes and I just opened up my Facebook to an article discussing Debussy's love of gardening, with a photo of his working the soil lol

@@mariosaute1372 Yes, it is 🙂

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@@BeckyKorroch Thank you. I composed this right before I moved to Michigan from Louisiana. It was an expression of the sadness of leaving a life and friends behind and transitioning to something new.

I remember you telling me about that move. This piece reflects those emotions indeed. ​@solitarymusician

@@lindajeancountrymusic Me too... this is one of the rare pieces I composed in the midst of heavy emotion. I was about to move to a new state and leaving an old life and friends forever behind, so I composed this in the midst of that.

@@solitarymusician emotions through music are very beautiful...even if they are sad or uncertain....and you certainly did release them in a most beautiful way. xx

@@musicroom7185 when you get a chance, I'd be interested in knowing a bit more of your background. A retired band director? What grade(s)? Marching Band, concert, etc?

@@solitarymusician When it comes to teaching in public schools, I pretty much did it all at some point over 36 years. Taught at every level from Pre-K to College, instrumental, vocal. general music/music apprec. & did lots of piano lessons. In many situations I did K-12 schools so I did them all at once. Also did 13 years directing church choirs. What I can say (hopefully objectively) is that I am "good" at most areas of music education & performance, but "outstanding" at none. Does that make sense? It made me very employable and flexable in most situations, but in hindsight, I might have been better served to concentrate & excel in one area. I have been retired since 2020 & struggling to keep musically motivated. My fear as of late is that I will eventually stagnate to having little or no music in my life, as I already find myself playing & composing less.

@@musicroom7185 Very impressive. Your career is similar to my mom's. She was a concert pianist off and on, but her main jobs were teaching school. As you, from pre-K to college. General music, music appreciation, piano, vocal and taught privately. She was a church organist/choir director much of her life. She also worked for a time selling pianos. She also composed/arranged. She composed the Alma Mater of her high school. When she retired, I would say the last few years of her life she experienced what I would call major burnout. I think part of her situation was that she always had to be in "performance mode", largely in terms of the personality that goes along with that, public face etc... she played occasionally near the end, sometimes volunteering playing the piano at a local nursing home. She'd also play a Christmas party here and there. It was a quandary with her. On the one hand, she really missed being "in the scene" as it were, but on the other, she'd had enough.

@@solitarymusician I relate to all of that SO much....😉my gig at the nursing home is every Wednesday afternoon, playing out of old readers digest music collections because they are from the right era & are spiral bound so the pages turn easily. (I love how appreciative the nursing home crowd is...plus, in my 60's I am still young to them). I play for community theater auditions because I sightread well...but I don't like being tied down for 8 weeks to do the entire show. I still play/practice at home quite a bit because I am not quite ready to be "done" with music...still hoping to "bounce back" ,,,anyway, thanks for asking & sharing 🙂

Such a lovely sounding song. ITS FULL OF MYSTERY . It makes me want to be in the pictures. To explore.

@@user-yd3hp7gy8p Thank you!!

@@musicroom7185 I'm originally from Memphis, Tennessee, the Delta Blues are big there, of course, so I sometimes draw from that influence as well as the barbecue. Yes, a pulled pork sandwich with coleslaw on a hot, summer day with flies all about... most definitely the soundtrack to that setting...I think I was subconsciously craving barbecue when I played this lol... have to travel back down south at some point to satisfy that; I do miss southern food lol

@@musicroom7185 The track I posted before this one, "Day Waves", was one I composed and recorded when I was living in Louisiana about 20 years ago. It was middle of the summer and so bloody hot that driving down the road, you could see that shimmering, mirage effect (or waves, thus 'Day Waves') in the distance. Being in a busy, urban city intensified the effect, putting you in a lethargic state. The tune sort of describes that.

@@BeckyKorroch Thank you!!

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