I just love music...obviously, I love my flutes and creating endless melodies...used to sing in competition barbershop quartets, though my present work shift precludes any evening activities anymore (!)...and I love to listen to many genres.
Figuratively, it is music to my ears to have Tara Lane return to the weather line-up after her maternity leave, as well as Matthew East from his paternity leave (WELCOME BACK AND DON'T GO AWAY ANY TIME SOON!!!)...we can finally quit this shenanigans of pulling double-duties for a long haul and get a little breather. Too, today is the last day of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season...'buh-bye!', and don't let the door hit you on the way out. Thankfully it was significantly quieter than expected.
No doubt music is good for the soul...
"What is wonderful about music is that it helps us to concentrate or meditate independently of thought - and therefore music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between form and the formless. If there is anything intelligent, effective and at the same time formless, it is music. Poetry suggests form, line…color suggest form… but music suggests no form. It creates also that resonance which vibrates through the whole being, lifting the thought above the denseness of matter; it almost turns matter into spirit, into its original condition, through the harmony of vibrations touching every atom of one's whole being."
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan (excerpted from "The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan, Vol II")
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1. This song is from The Real Group, vocal jazz ensemble, and is guaranteed to get you be-boppin' along at your desk. From this link scroll down to “BEST OF –“ and click on the song “LIFT ME UP”:
( NOTE: you will need to use REAL PLAYER instead of the Windows Movie Player)
http://www.singers.com/jazz/realgroup.html
2. Kieran Shannon is a recording artist that owns a very special flute of mine, which he used to record a song “Red-Winged Blackbirds”. Go to this link and click on that song on the right hand column to hear a excerpt from that song and hear what my flutes sound like:
http://www.kieranshannon.com/leaves_music.html
3. I just love this station…Midwest Irish Radio…ain’t nothin’ like it in the U.S, I’ll tell you that…great internet radio station, fantastic Irish music, overall, and quite interactive…you can email requests and they will quickly mention you personally on-air, most times…when I come in to the forecast center I turn it on for background music. Just go to this link and click on “listen live now”:
http://www.midwestirishradio.com/mwir/index.htm
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