Canyon de Chelly, Wedding Piece

[djimtio]

Hi MG
Not having the knowledge and not licensed to comment on the technical aspects of this nice peace of music,I just added it to my evergrowing "MG´s best" MP3 compilation to listen on my Hifi rather than through my headphones or monitors.
You may not believe this,but while listening to this piece (rather loud) I saw a Portuguese eagle circling up high above the valley ( I use to call him the Lord of the valley).Was this my imagination or the magic of your music ?
Thanks for sharing !
Regards

Djim

[mgj32]

Hi Djim,

Wish I knew, but everyone in the wedding party, of about 40 saw and watched the one at Canyon de Chelly, except the three of us performing. Our eyes were riveted to the music stands, since we had had a chance to run through the piece only once. The groom's brother arrived from Honduras only the day before and the guitarist was seeing the music for the first time. I'm beginning to wonder if the eagle mind associates the piece with food .

[djimtio]

Hi MG
There are more things between heaven and earth..............
and also some magic in alll kinds of music.It might as well started raining while you were playing at the Canyon de Chelly.
BTW, do you happen to know what have become of the marriage ,) ?
Keep the magic coming !
Regards
Djim

[mgj32]

HI Djim,

Yes, we've kept in touch. The groom taught Math for the Univ of New Mexico, and is now retired; his wife was a hospital lab technician. They had four kids, three of whom have graduated from college, I believe, and two of whom are employed, but I forget what their fields are.

That eagle may have come to bring them good luck.

all best,
mgj

[djimtio]

Hi MG
Perhaps there is a lesson in this for us all,that no matter how busy we are,we should take a (quick) look at the sky above from time to time,because there´s where the magic comes from,after all.
Let us have a drink to this happy family !
Regards

Djim

[mgj32]

Hi Djim,

Good advice. 30-some years ago Mark and I had many drinks together, usually during long discussions, not about "shoes and ships and sealing wax and cabbages and kings, or why the sea is boiling hot and whether pigs have wings," but I'm sure we covered a lot of that, but more often, since we were department chairs, academic matters, or his ideas about Math as language, or why he believed Baroque or Classical music was the only music worth spending time listening to. But mostly we speculated a lot about those "more things in heaven and earth," that Horatio, for all his philosophical knowledge, ever even dreamt about.

So I will have that drink (iced green tea, these days) to Mark and family, and another to the good old days.

all best,
mgj

[Sherry C]

Howdy,

I ran across this page (again) that is very helpful in showing the "normal" range of a number of instruments. Of course it's for standard tunings of string intruments (including guitars) and thus won't account for some of the weird and wonderful things that folks can do with them. But it's quite useful nonetheless.

http://solomonsmusic.net/insrange.htm

Enjoy!
Sherry