We Three: My Echo, My Shadow and Me - The Ink Spots

Reverie. Random Thoughts. Down memory lane. 

Timely for me to find this old song I love at YouTube... from one of my childhood favourite popular singing groups: The Ink Spots.

The song:  "We Three (My Echo, My Shadow, and Me)" by The Ink Spots. 

 

The song tells a story of a person who feels isolated and alone, despite the presence of their "echo," "shadow," and the "me". 

Through all of the feelings of loneliness and longing for companionship and love, the romantic in some of us somehow continuously wait for someone to join us in our solitude, even if it takes eternity. 

Ah, relationships are never easy, always a challenge. Loneliness and longing for a connection are always a part of life.  

About the Ink Spots:

The Ink Spots was an African-American vocal group prominent in the late 1930s and ’40s. Along with the Mills Brothers, they were one of the first African-American groups to reach both black and white audiences. The Ink Spots exerted great influence on the development of the doo-wop vocal style. The principal members were Orville (“Hoppy”) Jones, Charles Fuqua, Ivory (“Deek”) Watson, Bill Kenny, Jerry Daniels, Herb Kenny, and Billy Bowen.

Formed in 1932 as the King, Jack and the Jesters, the group became the Ink Spots when they relocated to New York City. After Herb Kenny replaced original member Daniels, the group began a slow evolution toward its distinctive sound. In 1939 the Ink Spots scored a huge hit with “If I Didn’t Care,” on which Bill Kenny’s tenor lead contrasted with Jones’s deep bass. Among their many hits in the 1940s were “Address Unknown,” “My Prayer” (later rerecorded by the Platters), “Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall” (a collaboration with Ella Fitzgerald), “We Three,” “To Each His Own,” and “The Gypsy.” The Ink Spots were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989.

My other favourite song of The Ink Spots was "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall", with Ella Fitzgerald.  

Resource: 

The Ink Spots. Encyclopaedia Britannica (Online). Article by Amy Tikkanen. Accessed January 16, 2024.

 

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Saturday morning delight ... Mozart's lovely Trio KV 498

Listening pleasure on a cold and chilly Saturday morning down-under...


A wonderful performance by Martin Fröst, klarinet;  Roland Pöntinen, piano; Maxim Rysanov, altviool.  Recorded during Janine Jansen's International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht 2011.(YouTube, uploaded by AVROTROS klassiek. Accessed August 8, 2020.)





About this piece, and I'm quoting from a friend's insight: "The lovely Eb trio KV 498, in a crystalline and lyrical performance by Martin and friends, here with his longtime pianist Roland Pontinen and the great violist Maxim Rysanov. The KV 498 trio has been misnicknamed the "Kegelstatt" trio for over 200 years. In actuality, it was the KV 487 french duos that were composed two weeks earlier, "untern Kegelscheiben" ("while play skittles") by Mozart. This lovely Eb trio, KV 498 was not. Mozart writes on the autograph of KV 498 (now in Paris) very simply, "Ein Terzett fur Klavier, Klarinette, und Viola."- Dr. Vincent DeLuise, Mozartian and clarinettist. 


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If I had words

When I heard Camille Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 (Finale) played over at ABC Classics this morning, I found myself filled with emotions, further aggravated by a chilly winter morning and a bit downcast from some unwelcome body aches.

For a long time I've loved Camille Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 in C minor "Symphony with Organ", written in 1886. Then came the film Babe, with its theme song, "If I had words", a short but with beautiful heartwarming lyrics. It became even more significant when my memory drifted to one of my recent years' concert with  Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, "Music from the Movies", conducted by our warm-hearted conductor Liz Scott. Babe's song was included.

Brief history of the song: "If I had words" was first recorded in 1978, sung by Scott Fitzgerald as a duet with Yvonne Keeley. The lyrics and arrangement were by Jonathan Hodge, a prolific writer of TV jingles and movie themes, who also produced the single. The backing was by the St Thomas More Roman Catholic School Choir in Chelsea, London. I have no idea, but wonderfully strange enough, the music was adapted from the finale movement of Camille Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 in C minor.

The lyrics are indeed too short and simple, but my God, they're deeply profound to me, alongside Saint-Saëns's "organ symphony" music.

Link: "If I had Words" - Here. Sung by Yvonne Keeley and Scott Fitzgerald.

If I Had Words

If I had words
To make a day for you
I sing you a morning golden and new
I would make this day

Last for all time
Give you a night
Deep in moonshine.

If I Had Words lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Music & Media Int'l, Inc

Video:  
Camille Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 “Organ Symphony” (Finale), performed by the Auckland Symphony Orchestra conducted by Peter Thomas, with Timothy Noon on the Organ. From the concert "Organ Symphony" recorded November 2012 at the Auckland Town Hall. YouTube, accessed July 5, 2020.





Resource:

If I Had Words. en.wikipedia.org. 


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The Lost Chord

Earlier I was sorting out a box of uncategorised CDs I haven't touched in years when I found an old CD from my past, The Cliff Adams Singers: The Golden Years of Song. These are songs loved by our parents and influenced on us.  Upon review of the 20 tracks, I dawned upon few I'm familiar with and love to this day. One song in particular haunted me: The Lost Chord. With a bit of research, I realised the music is composed by no other than Arthur Sullivan, a setting of an 1858 poem by Adelaide Anne Procter. Sullivan composed it in 1877 whilst tending to his brother on his deathbed.

The Lost Chord was not written for public use but it quickly became a success, the subject of one of the first-ever phonograph recordings in 1888. It has been recorded by prominent singers at the time, including Enrico Caruso, Beniamino Gigli, and Nelson Eddy, among others. 

Below, the haunting but beautiful The Lost Chord, sung by Webster Booth, British Tenor. YouTube, BigTezza12. Accessed June 15, 2020. 



The Lost Chord 
Lyrics by Adelaide Anne Procter
Music composed by Arthur Sullivan. 

Seated one day at the organ
I was weary and ill at ease
And my fingers wandered idly
Over the noisy keys

I know not what I was playing
Or what I was dreaming then;
But I struck one chord of music
Like the sound of a great Amen
Like the sound of a great Amen

It flooded the crimson twilight
Like the close of an angel's psalm
And it lay on my fevered spirit
With a touch of infinite calm

Full Moon and Empty Arms

This post is inspired by full moon tonight. 

"Full Moon and Empty Arms" is a 1945 popular song by Buddy Kaye and Ted Mossman, based on Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2. Frank Sinatra's version is the best-known recording of the song.

The Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18, is a concerto for piano and orchestra composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff between the autumn of 1900 and April 1901 The second and third movements were first performed with the composer himself as soloist on 2 December 1900. The complete work was premiered, again with the composer as soloist, on 27 October 1901, with his cousin Alexander Siloti conducting.




Hélène Grimaud plays beautifully movements 3 (Allegro scherzando), of this emotionally charged piece of music. YouTube, uploaded by StupeurAlice. Accessed June 5, 2020.

The second movement (adagio sostenuto theme) appears in Eric Carmen's 1975 ballad "All by Myself". The 3rd movement (allegro scherzando) which is featured in this video provides the basis for Frank Sinatra's 1945 "Full Moon and Empty Arms".

For the complete Piano Concerto No.2, I decided to listen to Van Cliburn, with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Kirill Kondrashin, conducting. Youtube, uploaded by classicalrarities.

The soundtrack of the 1945 classic movie "Brief Encounter", starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard, which centers on the lives of two happily married man and woman who fall in love with each other after a chance encounter at a train station, features a musical score based on this Piano Concerto. It's refreshing to find a classic romance without meet-cutes and pathetic attempts to be clever, with two adults who know what is happening to them, feeling passion which they may have thought was lost for good, by the same token both know their undertaking is unwise and know, within their realities, what needs to be done.

This piece is one of Rachmaninoff's most enduring popular compositions, and established his fame as a concerto composer.



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Morning Mood

"Morning Mood" (Norwegian: Morgenstemning i ørkenen, 'Morning mood in the desert') is part of Edvard Grieg's famous Peer Gynt, Op. 23, written in 1875 as incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play of the same name. It was also included as the first of four movements in Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46.

Beautiful!

Pensive. Today is anothre one of those dark and seemingly gloomy Sunday. But just because the skies are falling and I'm social distancing doesn't mean I have to sit around doing nothing... I'm blissing out on some of my favourite easy listening classic music. Here's one:  Grieg's "Morning Mood". 




Got to give this day the chance to become another beautiful day in a life...


(c) May 2020. Tel. Leaves from my Musings. All rights reserved.

Tchaikovsky Symphony 5 in E minor, "Andante cantabile"

Listening Pleasures / Reveries

My memories seem to live through music. As time goes by, it's becoming more pronounced.
   

Andante cantabile, con alcuna licenza

This heart-warming "Andante cantabile" is the second movement of Pyotr Tchaikovsky's loved Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64, in four movements (I. Andante – Allegro con anima II. Andante cantabile, con alcuna licenza, III.  Valse, Allegro moderato, and IV. Finale: Andante maestoso).


Below video, Maestro Leonard Bernstein conducts Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5 in E minor - II Movement, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.



Through the years, Pyotr's "Andante cantabile" remain in my heart amongst my other favourite and best loved romantic music. It was composed by Tchaikovsky between May and August 1888 and was first performed in St Petersburg at the Mariinsky Theatre on November 17 of that same year with the composer himself conducting.

There's a poignant love song "Moon Love" popularised by the late Frank Sinatra actually adapted from Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, lyrics written by Mack David, Mack Davis and Andre Kostelanetz. It was recorded by Frank Sinatra twice, first in 1939 with Harry James, and in 1966 in the album “Moonlight Sinatra“, arranged by Nelson Riddle (Reprise Records). If I remember right, I think Glenn Miller Orchestra also made recording of  this wonderful "Moon Love" piece.




Moon Love (Lyrics)

Will this be moon love, nothing but moon love
Will you be gone when the dawn comes stealing through
Are these just moon dreams, grand while the moon beams
But when the moon fades away, will my dreams come true

Much as I love you, don’t let me love you
If I must pay for your kiss with lonely tears, say it’s not moon love
Tell me it’s true love, say you’ll be mine when the moon disappears.



Video Credit:

Frank Sinatra: Moon Love. thefranksinatra.com. Accessed 17 November 2019.

Harry James & His Orchestra, featuring Frank Sinatra. Accessed 17 November 2019.

Leonard Bernstein - Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5 in E minor - II Movement. Uploaded by Nelson Zapata. Accessed 19 February 2020.  Boston Symphony Orchestra.


Resource:

Symphony No. 5 Tchaikovsky (Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64). Wikipedia. Accessed 17 November 2019.



(c) 17 November 2019.  Updated 14 February 2020. Tel. Leaves from my Musings.  All rights reserved.

Try to Remember

Listening Pleasure. Reveries.


30 Sept 2019. As September sunsets - a farewelling of my birth-month of ups and downs, sadness and joys, disappointments and realisations. And welcoming a new month. October. Second chances... new beginnings.

"Try To Remember", sung by Nana Mouskouri.

This song is about nostalgia from the musical comedy The Fantasticks. Lyrics written by lyricist & librettist Tom Jones.

Try to remember the kind of September when life was slow and oh, so mellow
Try to remember the kind of September when grass was green and grain was yellow
Try to remember the kind of September when you were a tender and callow fellow
Try to remember and if you remember then follow

Try to remember when life was so tender that no one wept except the willow
Try to remember when life was so tender that dreams were kept beside your pillow
Try to remember when life was so tender that love was an ember about to billow
Try to remember and if you remember then follow

Twilight Reverie with Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 "Adagio un poco mosso"

Reveries, Listening Pleasures


I found this music by piano music by Beethoven soothing and calming for quite a dreary twilight winter. 

Sometimes feeling alone and lonely heightens fears of inadequacy. We need that sense of belonging:  belonging to a group we call friends.  Knowing that we belong fosters inner warmth that accompanies well-being... security that somehow melts fears of the unknown. 




Video Credit:

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73 Adagio Un Poco Mosso. Youtube, uploaded by Ibakaya. (Apology, I'm not sure of the performers.) Accessed June 25, 2019.

Another link - here.

Note:  The Piano Concerto No. 5 in E♭ major, Op. 73, by Ludwig van Beethoven, popularly known as the Emperor Concerto, was his last completed piano concerto. It was written between 1809 and 1811 in Vienna, and was dedicated to Archduke Rudolf, Beethoven's patron and pupil. The video above contains the second movement, "Adagio un poco mosso" which I listen to in one of my reflective moments... where B major forms a quiet nocturne for the solo piano, muted strings, and wind instruments that converse with the solo piano. Beautiful!


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Starry, Starry Night

Listening Pleasure / Reverie

"Now I think I know
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, 
they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will."




"Vincent" is a song written by singer-songwriter Don McLean as a tribute to famous Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. It is also known by its opening line, "Starry Starry Night", a reference to the Dutch post-impressionist painter Van Gogh's 1889 painting The Starry Night, an oil on canvas. 

Keeping with his reputation as a crazy artist, Van Gogh was committed to a mental health asylum in Arles after the ear incident with Gauguin. History has it that Van Gogh painted Starry Night while in the mental hospital, and that the landscape in the painting depicts a dreamy interpretation of the view Van Gogh had from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise, with the addition of an ideal village.  

In Starry Night painting, contoured forms are a means of expression and they are used to convey emotion. Many feel that van Gogh´s turbulent quest to overcome his illness is reflected in the dimness of the night sky. The village is painted with dark colors but the brightly lit windows create a sense of comfort.


Don McLean wrote the lyrics of this famous song in 1971 after reading a book about the life of van Gogh. It's poignantly beautiful.

Starry, Starry Night 

Artist: Don McLean, Singer-Songwriter

American Pie Released: 1971

Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and grey
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land.

Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now.

Starry, starry night
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
Colors changing hue
Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.

Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now.

For they could not love you
But still your love was true
And when no hope was left in sight
On that starry, starry night
You took your life, as lovers often do
But I could have told you, Vincent,
This world was never meant for one
As beautiful as you.

Starry, starry night
Portraits hung in empty halls
Frameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
Like the strangers that you've met
The ragged men in the ragged clothes
The silver thorn, a bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow.

Now I think I know
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will.

Songwriters: Don McLean

Vincent (Starry, Starry Night) lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

Video Credit: 

Don McLean - Vincent (Starry, Starry Night) with Lyrics. Uploaded by wysty67. Accessed June 10, 2019.

Resource:

Vincent (Song). en.wikipedia.org.  Accessed June 10, 2019. 



(c) 2018. Updated June 10, 2019. Tel Asiado. Leaves from my Musings.  All rights reserved.    

Through the Eyes of a Child (revisited)

Inspired Pen. Musings.


"We could sometimes see our days,
as through the eyes of a child."

We all love children's innocence, laughter and giggles through their no-cares-of-the-world pranks. And most of all, look through their eyes. How we miss those years, those wonderful childhood fond memories that Mark Twain talked about in his famous children's books.


I've loved this song Through the Eyes of a Child many moons ago. I posted about it five years back - here. In recent years, the song started creeping within after I felt affinity with a toddler I've spotted in his wonderful mother's loving arms on her online profile. Little by little, this kind of 'kinship' from a distance has been slowly unraveling. Now, he has grown up to be a winsome child and my soft spot remains... for you, Ned. (29 April 2019)

THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD

Performed by Percy Faith & Female Chorus 

Music by: Émile Stern,  Lyrics by: Eddy Marnay 

The wide eyes of a child

Look upon a world reborn

See the glory of a rose

That never bears a thorn.

The wide eyes of a child

Can invent a laughing moon

And the orange sun leaps high

Just as a floating toy balloon.

He clearly sees

The flower and the bird

Whose thoughts he knows

Without needing any word.

And any child can hear

Ringing laughter from a stream

Hear the music of the heart

To us a half-forgotten dream.

(In sleep he hears

The star's distant song

Oh, may its wonder last

For his whole life long...)

If we had vision too

As we stumble on our ways

We could sometimes see our days

As through the eyes of a child.

(Originally recorded by Frida Boccara in French, "Un Jour, Un Enfant". )

Video Credit:
Through the Eyes of a Child. Percy Faith and Female chorus. Youtube uploaded by Jokarilon. Accessed 29 April 2019.          


Photo Courtesy:
Ned Williams  by Liz Scott.  April 29, 2019.


(c) April 29, 2019. Tel / Inspired Pen. Leaves from my Musings. All rights reserved. 

Ladies in Lavender

Listening Pleasure / Reveries 

We are never too old to dream a new dream. Imagination has no age. Dreams are forever.  After all, it's not the years in a life that counts, but how these years have been lived.  


A romantic and beautiful music poignantly played by violinist Joshua Bell. It's from the film Ladies in Lavender starring Dame Judi Dench (Ursula Widdington) and Dame Maggie Smith (Janet Widdington), with Daniel Brühl as Andrea Marowski. The film's original soundtrack was written by Nigel Hessby (Nominated for Classical BRIT Awards) and all performed by Joshua Bell and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, including compositions by favourite composers F. Mendelssohn, N. Paganini, J. Massenet, C. Debussy, P de Sarasate and J.S. Bach.





Video Credit:
Ladies in Lavender - Joshua Bell, Violinist. YouTube, uploaded by xyCuriosityxy. Accessed August 4, 2018.

Resource:
Ladies in Lavender (Film). en.wikipedia.org. Accessed August 4, 2018



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Plaisir d'Amour

Listening Pleasure / Reverie

What am I doing? What am I living behind? Each time I relate with someone is important because the interaction I have with them could change me or them in a way we may not be aware of.

Thinking through.

Letting go. The"cargo" I've been hanging on to that has been bringing unnecessary pressure.

Plaisir d'Amour. The joys and pains of love.





Video Credit: 
Plaisir d'Amour - Main theme from the film "Man, Woman and Child."  YouTube, uploaded by Francisco Lopez. Accessed July 21, 2018.  (Film sountrack composed by George Delerue)



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Tchaikovsky Melody Gems

Listening Pleasures & Reveries


Sometimes our struggles with circumstances take their toll on us, the barriers that get in the way... including relationships, decisions to make, and health issues. They push us to behaviours not of our liking ...  What then?

To let go and back off,  to not be thwarted by people or by situation.  I'm grateful for music that appeases. You're right, Piotr.

“Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.” ... Tchaikovsky





Above is Tchaikovsky's "Serenade Melancolique, Op26" played by Itzhak Perlman.
YouTube, uploaded by ballettheatre. Accessed August 7, 2018.   




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Mozart's Adagio and Rondo in C minor, K.617

Listening Pleasures / Reveries

Adagio and Rondo for glass harmonica, flute, oboe, viola & cello in C minor, K.617 (1791)

This splendid quintet, scored for glass harmonica, flute, oboe, viola and cello was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus in Vienna, May 23, 1791, less than seven months before his death. This work was composed for Marianne Kirchgäßner. It was first performed in concert at the Burgtheater on August 19, 1791.

Another version I've included: 'Adagio and Rondo for harp, flute, oboe, viola, cello' performed by Ensemble Wien-Berlin, uploaded by Night Visitor. Refer to 'video credit' below.) 




Video Credit:

Mozart's Adagio and Rondo for Glass Harmonica in C minor, K. 617. YouTube, uploaded by ComposersByNumbers.  Accessed May 28, 2018. (Composed in Vienna and dated May 23, 1791. For Marianne Kirchgäßner. First performed in concert at the Burgtheater on August 19, 1791. Performers: Bruno Hoffmann, glass harmonica; K. H. Ulrich, flute; Helmut Hucke, oboe; Ernst Nippes, viola; Hans Plumacher, cello.).

Mozart's Adagio and Rondo for harp, flute, oboe, viola and cello, in C minor, K.617.  YouTube, uploaded by Night Visitor. Accessed May 28, 2018. (Mozart's ADAGIO & RONDO from Ensemble Wien-Berlin: Suss (harp), Schulz (flute), Schellenberger (oboe), Christ (viola), Faust (violoncello). Parts: 1- Adagio 2-Rondo:Allegretto.)




(c) May 2018.  Tel a.k.a.  Inspired Pen. Leaves from my Musings.  All rights reserved.

Goodbye Again

Down Memory Lane / Soundtrack

An all-time favourite piece of music, Brahms Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op.90 - III. Poco allegretto, has just been played at Fine Music 102.5, a radio station I often listen to. So poignant. So heartwarming. Memories came creeping into my otherwise quite turbulent mind.

This piece is used as soundtrack of a 1961 classic romantic drama movie entitled Goodbye Again, starring Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Perkins and Yves Montand. It was released in Europe as Aimez-vous Brahms?, adapted from a novel by Francoise Sagan, first published in French in 1959, and published in English the following year.

Incidentally, today, 7th of May, marks the birthday of Johannes Brahms, as well as Pyotr Tchaikovsky, two favourites.  


Below is a video of Brahms Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op.90 - III. Poco allegretto, with Maestro Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic.  (YouTube, uploaded by Nathaniel Adams. Accessed 7 May 2018.) 

"Say no more it’s goodbye
As before it’s goodbye
Every move, every sigh
Seems to prove it’s goodbye again."

Timely reflections through this piece of music as I decide to take an indefinite break from Facebook, a place I've freely given my time and efforts. Overly...  Distanced silences greatly help get things get into perspective.  

(c) 2018.  Tel Asiado. Leaves from my Musings. All rights reserved.

Make Someone Happy

Randon Thoughts / Listening Pleasures

It's a wonderful feeling when we make someone happy.


This lovely popular song "Make Someone Happy" is introduced in the musical Do Re Mi with with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and a book by Garson Kanin, who also directed the original 1960 Broadway production. The plot is about a minor-league con man who decides to go straight by going into the business of juke boxes and music promotion.

Below, the song  is beautifully interpreted by Monica Ramey, singer, and Beegie Adair, pianist.  I first heard this beautiful song sung by Jimmy Durante in the film "Sleepless in Seattle." 

Make Someone Happy

Songwriters: Adolph Green / Betty Comden / Jule Styne

Make Someone Happy lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc

It's so important to make someone happy,
Make just one someone happy;
Make just one heart the heart you sing to.
One smile that cheers you,
One face that lights when it nears you,
One girl you're ev'rything to.

Fame if you win it,
Comes and goes in a minute.
Where's the real stuff in life to cling to?
Love is the answer,
Someone to love is the answer.
Once you've found her, build your world around her.

Make someone happy, make just one someone happy,
And you will be happy, too.

Related Links / Resources:

Do Re Mi (Musical). en.wikipedia.org 




Video Credit:

Monica Ramey with Beegie Adair - Make Someone Happy. YouTube, uploaded by MLRJazz. Accessed May 1, 2018. 




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Ebb Tide

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just sitting and looking at the sea? Highs and lows? The waves dance to the music of its melodies. Lately, I've been consistently wanting soft currents in my own waves. (I took this picture during my few days' holiday in Sunshine Coast before Christmas 2017.)


Matt Monro sings "Ebb Tide," one of my favourite popular songs down memory lane. Composed by Robert Maxwell and lyrics by Carl Sigman.




Video Credit:
Ebb Tide by Matt Monro. YouTube, uploaded by 65Seasons. Accessed April 21, 2018.



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Clara Wieck Schumann's Trio Für Violine, Cello and Piano, Op. 17

"Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?"
~ Clara Wieck Schumann

Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/clara_schumann

Over a cup of coffee (loving the smell of Rosabaya Nespresso), I'm enjoying an early Saturday cool morning with Clara Schumann's music, Trio in G-minor, Op. 17. Clara Wieck Schumann is one of my most admired woman composers of all time.

Beautiful composition.

Robert Schumann was fortunate in having such a dutiful and talented wife giving up her musical talent, composition in particular, for marriage. Such creative energies lost but we're still blest to capture some of her delightful works. 

Video Credit:

Clara Schuman - Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano, G-minor, Op. 17. YouTube, uploaded by Yuliya Debedenko. Accessed April 14, 2018.



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The Mystery of Your Gift

Reveries / Listening Pleasures

"It's the courage to turn when the pages have burned
And your story now seems at an end.
Seasons stay and seasons go
Sending your memories adrift.
It's the beautiful longing, embrace the unknown
That's the mystery of your gift."


This beautiful song "The Mystery of Your Gift" is featured in the film BoyChoir released in 2015. Josh Groban recorded and co-wrote it with Brian Byrne, featuring The American Boychoir. After watching the film, I was blown away by the song. As one passionate for choral singing, a choir member since I was a child and now a chorister with the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs in the autumn of life, I find the lyrics extremely meaningful and the tender singing by Josh Groban poignantly touches my soul.

It's not important to me that the movie has inaccuracies, for example, about Handel's Messiah. Contrary to what the movie implied that there were no boy soprano parts, Handel actually wrote the soprano arias for boys and those parts were sung in Dublin and at the Coram Benefit Concert. 

The BoyChoir (film) and its featured "The Mystery of Your Gift" (song), offer an inspiring message on growth, change, and the love that binds us together. "Seasons stay and seasons go, sending your memories adrift... and the lessons you gave to me: before you can fly, you must fall. It's the beautiful longing, embrace the unknown, that's the mystery of your gift." 





The Mystery of Your Gift (Lyrics) 

A single note passes out of the ashes
A flickering ember begins
It's the courage to turn when the pages have burned
And your story now seems at an end.

Seasons stay and seasons go
Sending your memories adrift.

It's the beautiful longing, embrace the unknown
That's the mystery of your gift.

And the echoes of your melody will always live in these walls
And the lessons that you gave to me, before you can fly, you must fall
It's the beautiful longing, embrace the unknown
That's the mystery of your gift.

There's a voice in the shadow calling for more
There's a rhythm that beats from within
Lending your voice to the warmth of the song
There's a strength in the choir of one
Pure as the voice that sees the place where the weight of your past may now lift
It's the beautiful longing, embrace the unknown
That's the mystery of your gift.

And the echoes of your melody will always live in these walls
And the lessons that you gave to me, before you can fly you must fall
So sing higher & higher, a thousand new voices ring through
If you sing out of the fire, the courage you need comes from you.


Related Links / Resources:

The Mystery of your Gift (original) by Josh Groban. Choir: American BoyChoir. Accessed April 2, 2018.

The Mystery of Your Gifts (Lyrics).  www.metrolyrics.com. Accessed April 2, 2018.

The Mystery of Your Gift. www.jwpepper.com. Accessed April 2, 2018.



Video Credit:

The Mystery of Your Gift. YouTube, uploaded by TUPIC. Accessed April 2, 2018. 




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