pianogonzology: May 2021

Monday, May 31, 2021

Sharks . . .

https://www.istockphoto.com/photos/swimming-with-sharks

The sharks, it seems,
Are at it again.
The lazy circles resumed.
They smell your blood,
If you're out in the drink;
Your art is like a perfume.
They pretend they will help you.
Pretense, though it is.
Motives, rarely, are honest
In this tough, cutthroat biz.

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Sunday, May 30, 2021

Summer . . .

. . . begins at the beach this weekend.

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Saturday, May 29, 2021

Powerful . . .

https://unsplash.com/s/photos/sheet-music

(from https://www.azquotes.com/quotes/topics/power-of-music.html)

". . . Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

-Ludwig van Beethoven

Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does-humans are a musical species.

-Oliver Sacks

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

-George Eliot

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

-Martin Luther

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

-Confucius

Music is the universal language of mankind.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

-Khalil Gibran

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

-Victor Hugo. . ."

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Friday, May 28, 2021

Heavy . . .

. . . baggage

https://www.dreamstime.com/businessman-facing-

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Six AM,
The buses aren't nearly as crowded
As the night before.
Someone said there was
Music and laughter
Behind all the shutters and doors.
What was all of it for?

Who needs friends?
There's barely a minute for breathing.
Everyone here works so hard.
There's no party.
When I reach my doorstep
I struggle to pull out my key.
Where's the meaning for me?

You see but you're unaware
There's life on the other side.

But there's no bridge to cross.
I'm looking through the fog
For some way out of here.
I've baggage here to toss.

Bless my soul!
I've read about you in the paper.
I've seen your picture somewhere.
When you speak it's in volumes and volumes.
I can't hear a word that you say.
Funny it happens that way.

I've been told
That envy's the thing I've been feeling
For your kind of work and your play.
But to tell you the truth
That it's only a wish
For a new kind of day,
When worry and fear melt away.

Could be
That a day will come
When you just might understand.

I’d like to go away.
And go there to stay.
But I can’t find the way.

So it goes,
But change never really comes easy.
Resistance is felt all around.
But inevitably something happens
That makes the old ship run aground.
We all stare in awe of what’s found.

Like me you appear to be
Looking for some meaning here.

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Thursday, May 27, 2021

Slanted & Unbalanced

https://www.ft.com/content/b3783522-3187-11ea-9703-eea0cae3f0de

. . . incarnate!!!

(from https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-vote-bipartisan-commission-probe-jan-6-capitol-attack-n1267896)

". . . On Wednesday morning, McConnell said on the Senate floor that he'd "made a decision to oppose the House Democrats’ slanted and unbalanced proposal for another commission to study the events of January the 6th.". . . Under the bill, the commission would include five members, including a chair, appointed by Democratic leaders in Congress, and another five, including a vice-chair, appointed by Republican leaders. . ."

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Wednesday, May 26, 2021

A Crime? . . .

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-a-cartoon-burglar-walking-136887256.html

(from https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/posting-cover-songs-on-youtube-what-you-need-to-know#:~:text=Once%20a%20musical%20work%20has,by%20obtaining%20a%20mechanical%20license.&text=The%20mechanical%20license%20only%20covers,called%20a%20%E2%80%9Csync%E2%80%9D%20license by Jane Haskins, Esq.)

". . . Songs are protected by copyright, and if you don’t get the right licenses, your YouTube cover song could be removed and you risk losing your entire channel. . . Indie bands do it to get exposure. Fans do it to display their devotion. Parents do it to show off their cute kids. . .Thousands of times a month, someone posts a cover song on YouTube. And whether the video is a live band performance or a toddler singing from her high chair, most of those cover songs are posted without permission from the song’s copyright holder—meaning they’re infringing someone’s copyright. . ."

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Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Low . . .

https://www.timeout.com/newyork/shopping/best-lighting-stores-in-nyc

Wanted you all to myself,
Distract you from all fear and flights,
By telling you how much I care,
To have you near in soft, low, lights

(from the album Black & White Then Back)

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Monday, May 24, 2021

Invested . . .

https://blog.artweb.com/opportunities/togetherness-project/

(from Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson)

". . . In a world without caste, instead of a false swagger over our own tribe or family or ascribed community, we would look upon all of humanity with wonderment: the lithe beauty of an Ethiopian runner, the bravery of a Swedish girl determined to save the planet, the physics-defying aerobatics of an African-American Olympian, the brilliance of a composer of Puerto Rican descent who can rap the history of the founding of America at 144 words a minute-all of these feats should fill us with astonishment at what the species is capable of and gratitude to be alive for this. . . In a world without caste, we would all be invested in the well-being of others in our species . . . "