Description
SKU #: 644167006125
Original piano/vocal music with blended overtones of classical, new age and easy listening styles allowing you to journey to a space of deep relaxation.
Track Listing:
1. In My Dreams
2. Sailing Moon
3. Destiny’s Dawn
4. Awakening
5. Waves of Life
6. Nature’s Ballet
7. Sometime Soon
8. Distant Shores
9. Lullaby, My Love
10. My Joy
11. Angels On the Sand
12. Peace Times
13. Heart to Heart
14. Trilogy of Love I – The Promise
15. II – Journeys
16. III – Forever
About the Artist:
How did you begin performing/composing?
J: Piano lessons began at age seven and shortly thereafter, performances at church, school talent shows, Music Federation Club contests and local civic organizations followed. My college degree was a B.A. in Piano Performance from Elon University in North Carolina, but I never stepped into the realm of original composition until 1992.
What musician or composers have inspired you the most?
J: The influence of classical training definitely weaves throughout all my music. As a young child, Chopin’s happy notes delighted me most. The brilliant J. S. Bach was considered arduous study to my carefree spirit of playfulness. Only when attempting his Toccata in C Minor on my Senior recital, did I truly appreciate the sheer genius of this master. Seventeen pages of contrapuntal intricacies demanded unrelenting concentration on his message in manuscript!
However, the composer who brought me most pleasure year after year, even to this day, would be Mozart. Despite his rather rambunctious personality, his truer self displayed intimate connection with the Divine via his music. One would declare he played for Angel Choirs!!!!
The 20th and 21st Centuries have their ‘Greats’ as well. Musicals entertained and thrilled my imagination as a child. Rodgers and Hammerstein have provided hours of pleasure for the little girl who created Broadway stage, red curtains and all, in the confines of her living room!!! Still admire and respect their timeless melodies today.
Of course John Williams and Andrew LLoyd Webber receive accolades of the highest calibre regarding contemporaries today. And yes… this adult child adores animated film scores also. Alan Menke’s music for “Beauty and the Beast” ranks as one of my favorites. Watched it 5 times! Hopeless romantic I am!!!
What do you want your music/performances to communicate?
J: My mission in this life has always been to bring beauty, peace and love into the lives of others. The purpose of Album One follows suit. It is becoming increasingly difficult to find quiet places in a noisy society of technical inventions that so fill our every waking moment. I hope my compositions allow an escape for each listener into those Sacred Halls of Silence where only Truth abides.
May each receive a special blessing of love… heart to heart… inside the bigger heart of God.
