Like most everyone, here at The Gathering Place, we love music, many different kinds!
Celebrate!
“Music is the universal language of mankind.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Musica
What follows are a collection of YouTube videos of some extraordinary musicians. Enjoy! 🙂
Various instruments – by Pedro Eustache.
By the way, it is Pedro playing the duduk on Paul McCartney’s song ‘Jenny Wren’ in 2005. This was heard on this blog recently. You can hear it at:‘Little Jenny Wren’[scroll to the bottom of the post]
Samvel Yervinyan -Violin
Victor Espinola, harp
You must hear the Victor’s last song!!!
Bogdan Alin Ota, composer and pianist
(was a copy machine deliverer by day and dreamed of composing and performing the rest of the time)
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For our: Dear friend Janet and our Dear niece Jenny
The Little Jenny Wrens Family
I am not exactly sure if I got the four little Jenny Wrens, pictured above, for my wife Susan on Valentine’s Day or for me? 🙂
But I thought they were so cute. There are four different little Jenny Wrens pictured in four different poses. I did not have the heart to break up the little family, so I brought them all home to live with us! Think Spring everyone! 🙂
Jenny Wren – is an expression that our friend Janet had not heard of before. So this post in part is, for you Janet. 🙂
Jenny – is the first name of my brother’s oldest daughter, our niece. So this post is also, for you Jenny. 🙂
Jenny Wren – was the name our Mom called this little common wren with the uncommon song.
Jenny Wren – Is a light brown colored, but somewhat washed–out looking little bird that is attracted to the bushy tangles of the garden. Except for off–white undersides, which cannot be described as bright even on the sunniest of days, the House Wren is decidedly a very nondescript looking bird. But what the “Jenny” wren, as my Mom used to call her, lacks in visual attraction, she most assuredly makes up for in song. She is one of the earliest arriving spring songsters. You will know Spring has arrived when little Jenny Wren is back home by singing her sweet song loud and clear. She bubbles and warbles soft and low and works up just like a tea pot on the stove. Little Jenny Wren boils over in song.
Jenny Wren – A beloved character, in a Charles Dickens’s novel. She’s the little disabled doll’s dressmaker who brightens the pages of ‘Our Mutual Friend,’ Dickens’s last completed novel, in 1864.
Jenny Wren – A little bird (a wren) in the 1919 children’s book by Thornton Waldo Burgess (January 14, 1874 – June 5, 1965). Burgess was a conservationist and author of children’s stories. He loved the beauty of nature and its living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years in books and his newspaper column, “Bedtime Stories”. He was sometimes known as the Bedtime Story-Man. By the time he retired, he had written over 170 books and 15,000 stories for the daily newspaper column.
Little Jenny Wren
“Jenny Wren, the little saucy wren that builds near your home.”
from the book: ‘The Burgess Bird Book for Children’ by Thornton Waldo Burgess
illustrations by Louis Agassiz Fuertes
Listen to her sing!
Jenny Wren – A song by Sir Paul McCartney, ‘Jenny Wren,’ in 2005
Jenny Wren
“Like so many girls, Jenny Wren could sing
But a broken heart, took her song away
Like the other girls, Jenny Wren took wing
She could see the world, and its foolish ways
How, we, spend our days, casting, love aside
Losing, sight of life, day, by, day
She saw poverty, breaking up her home
Wounded warriors, took her song away
But the day will come, Jenny Wren will sing
When this broken world, mends its foolish ways
Then we, spend our days, catching up on life
All because of you, Jenny Wren
You saw who we are, Jenny Wren”
Note: The solo is played on an Armenian woodwind instrument, called duduk (pronounced due -duke) and is a first in pop music history. It is played by Venezuelan born, world winds specialist & multi-instrumentalist Pedro Eustache. Susan and I had the privilege of hearing and seeing Pedro perform live at a Yanni concert. He is an incredible and a versatile musician. The duduk is an ancient instrument with hauntingly beautiful sounds.
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