You made it
through one
hell of a
year, and
maybe
you're feeling
some optimism
for a
better year
for everyone.
I've had a
tradition of
sending out
music on New
Year's
Day, and
as we slowly
emerge from
this
remarkable
time, I
definitely
wanted to keep
the constancy
of
that tradition. So
click here for
my New Year's
gift for you
Then please
come back and
read the back
story!
Here's the Back Story:
"Watercolor"
is a piece of
music
I wrote
soon
after turning sixteen.
I didn’t write
another piece
of music for a
good...let me
do the
calculations
here...oh yeah
- close
to 40 years.
And here's
another forty
year
chasm: I
had a
neighborhood
friend in
Baltimore whom
I'd lost track
of after
junior high.
We managed to
reconnect a
few years ago,
after I'd
already seen
his
breathtaking nature photography.
My friend,
Bruce Savadow,
is
a photographer
with
an extraordinary
eye who lives
in
Seattle. https://www.facebook.com/bruce.savadow
(You've
seen
some of
his work in my
newsletters,
and those are
his
photos above
and below).
A few years
ago
I rediscovered
and
recorded "Watercolor " and wondered
if there was a
way to put our
art
together. It
hit me
that this
particular
piece of music
and Bruce's
photography were
made for each
other, as
Bruce has a
fascination
with water
imagery.
So we began to
construct
something and
then had the
usual life
interruptions...someone
from Oakland
even misplaced
the
original outline
and files for
the project,
and several
more years
passed. Honestly,
I was not
sure that
we could bring
this little
project
off the
back burner,
but we did.
I like to
think that
sometimes what
appears to be
an
interruption,
or a terrible
hiatus, is
really just
dormancy in
disguise.
Please enjoy "Watercolor"
And Happy New
Year to you!
In
gratitude,
Mary
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