[Jung Roe]

Hi Bob

It’s never too late!!! So glad you discovered MLT, and decided to join the MLT Club. Hope you have an awesome experience.

[Jung Roe]

Hi Alex

Welcome to the MLT Club. Just discovered them a couple weeks ago? Well you’ve come upon an amazing treasure trove.

[Jung Roe]

Greetings Marc, welcome to the MLT Club!

[Jung Roe]

Hi JP

Thanks for sharing these. Yeah Yuja Wang is amazing, and she’s climbed up into the top echelon of the greatest pianists of all time lists all over the the classical music community.

That second Bach Adagio rendition was done very beautifully. Bach’s Adagio is absolutely stirring. Bach is a musical world of it’s own you can easily get lost in, I can see how great musicians like Glenn Gould devoted a life time to Bach’s music, and why so many artists in the rock/pop industry like George Martin, Paul McCartney, Ray Davies….etc admired his music from over 250 years ago. Bach captures the beautiful essence of the universe.

[Jung Roe]

Hey Jacki! 😊 Yes indeed, your magic with words always felt like a song. Your poetry is like music.

BTW, the letter was from Johnny Cash to his wife.

[Jung Roe]

For the writers and poets, and songwriters amongst us, I found this interesting little article about how written composition can be a lot like music composition. Below is a letter written by one very well known songwriter, can you feel the melody, beat and rhythm? I have to say a well written poem or letter can certainly sing and move you like a beautiful song. I think this one is a good example. Guess who wrote the letter?

“Writing is like music too.

Like a song, writing has melodies, that is the sound of your voice speaking silently in your mind while you are writing (or reading). Like a song, writing also has rhythm. Listen to the rhythm of your breath and write until you find an idea interesting.

Like a song, writing has a story. Writing an email? It should have a storyline and theme; Like a song, writing has lyrics. Every lyric or word must support your story or theme.

Like a song, writing has beats. Write one paragraph to another without missing a beat; Like a song, writing can stutter and stumble. Writing can flow so soft it almost sends you to sleep. Writing can hop and skip, putting a smile on your face.

Writing—creative nonfiction, fiction, or poetry—is more like writing a song. If you believe in what you have to say in writing, then say it in any damn way you think is best. Give the readers a melody and a chord structure that knocks out and sings and play it loud and proud.

By definition, rhythm is the pattern of regular or irregular pulses caused in music by the occurrence of strong and weak melodic and harmonic beats. Simply put, rhythm is that music component that makes us move, or even just tap the foot when we listen to a song.

In writing, rhythm is defined by punctuation and the stress patterns of words in a sentence. Long sentences sound smoother, while short sentences make your content snappier. When each sentence follows the same structure and rhythm, your writing becomes zzz, also-known-as boring.

“Your mission in writing is to get your readers excited from the first sentence, and a good hook is exactly what you need. Great hooks must be catchy, interesting, and attention-grabbing.”

[Jung Roe]

David,

Andy’s definitely into quantity I think, maybe a mission to cover the entire rock/pop repertoire. There must be a good one in there somewhere.

[Jung Roe]

The lead in to Love Me Do with the harmonica is quite wonderful. In this video, we can see a few scenes of John playing a small harmonica. I think the harmonica really adds to the magic of this song.

https://youtu.be/l_ND5fVCEqI

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Hi Jurgen, hope you are keeping well! Seeing that Theremin, I envision walking into a high school physics class, and the teacher has this strange contraption setup to show you how science can create music. The Theremin really captures Somewhere Over The Rainbow nicely evoking some mysterious moods. The first time I experienced the Theremin, or a version of it, without even knowing it was the Beach Boys Good Vibrations. Brian Wilson was pioneering all kinds of new and unique effects in music way back then. Thanks for sharing that video.

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Thanks Jacki for sharing the memories of your childhood home. It seems unavoidably the experience of life is bittersweet, but we are all so lucky to have had all the fond moments that were so sweet that make us look back with longing for those moments.

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Hi Jerry,

With team MLT, it’s not only their beautiful and amazing music that touch and inspire, it’s the way they create it with so much love and passion, and the wonderful family and people they are. They truly inspire us to aim for a higher bar.

[Jung Roe]

Hi Jurgen

Thanks for highlighting those beautiful lyrics, and letting me go back to experience that beautiful MLT video again, I feel the same way. As chapters in our lives close and we feel sad to have to move on, it’s all about new chapters to unfold, experience, and cherish. But it is so wonderful to have those fond memories of places and people that are precious gems that stay with you forever. When I visit my parents old house, it is bittersweet when the star of those times is no longer here.

In the back of my journal I have a growing entry of inspiring quotes I’ve been collecting, and copy over to the next journal. One of them that stand out for me is how every thing good comes to an end, sometimes tragically, but it was everything in between that was so precious and timeless, all the small moments that add up into incredible fond memories.

“Sometimes love does not have the most honourable beginnings, and the endings will break you in half. It’s everything in between we live for” – Ann Patchett.

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Thanks David for sharing the video. It’s exactly how I felt.

“Is it true that the good times have passed”

https://youtu.be/m1fJszAffQw

[Jung Roe]

Sorry to hear that, my condolences David for your father. Places we called home are so special and come moving day is very hard indeed, because it became a part of your life. The old office I worked at for 30 years downtown, was like a home as I spent such a big part of my life there literally, so the last day I was there, I remember that moment as I left the front door lobby for the very last time, I had to stop and look back and take a moment. If that security camera was the same one that was there in 1989, it would have captured a young 26 years old all nervous and excited walking to work for the first time, and then a 56 years old leaving the same door 30 years later with so many memories and experiences, turning one last time to say an emotional goodbye, and turning off the light.

[Jung Roe]

Hi Jacki

Yeah I remember a while ago you mentioned your father and NASCAR. I haven’t been a live NASCAR event, would love to see one, one day. The NASCAR circuit doesn’t have a track in the Pacific North West I’m aware of, but got a time it right with one of my trips cross border in the future.