tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post1282906608978264520..comments2024-03-17T11:17:53.826+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: Thank you for the music by Julia JonesKatherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-77995550612291387092018-03-10T12:22:42.556+00:002018-03-10T12:22:42.556+00:00Wonderful, moving, hopeful...thank you, Julia, onc...Wonderful, moving, hopeful...thank you, Julia, once again, for an inspiring post! xSandra Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01761260568729338471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-10448047321844196172018-03-09T17:28:34.131+00:002018-03-09T17:28:34.131+00:00Thank you for sharing this moving, inspiring, bitt...Thank you for sharing this moving, inspiring, bittersweet story, so beautifully told. I found it deeply touching as the son of a musical mother myself, one who used to sing that same Elvis song (Plaisir d'amour, in the original French version) as an opera singer in concert. Umberto Tosihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04939504157464234443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-90198134373259151002018-03-09T14:04:56.849+00:002018-03-09T14:04:56.849+00:00And today's ear-worm (in case you wondered) is...And today's ear-worm (in case you wondered) is "Tulips from Amsterdam". Again not a song that woudl have come my way until will of my Willow friends remembered how much they'd enjoyed Max Bygraves...<br />julia joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09773900100240758504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-6415850077368573422018-03-09T12:53:09.463+00:002018-03-09T12:53:09.463+00:00Thank you thank you all Rosalie for promising to r...Thank you thank you all Rosalie for promising to relearn the piano - letting active music back into my life again has made such a difference. Listening is all very well but playing / singing is a completely different experience, even when it doesn't go dso well all the time. Lydia, thank you for you understanding of music as an organising factor. I read some really fascinating stuff on the neurologologologoical (can't get all these big words) process last year but I was writing too close to deadline to go look out the book again. And Jan YES! to Madame la Marquise. About 4 years ago mum suddenly remembered it, almost word perfect, in French and I loved it. It's gone again from her now and I'd forgotten too until you mentioned it - grey mare dead, husband killed, chateau burned down - tout va bien!julia joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09773900100240758504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-19923701671962215882018-03-09T11:08:24.632+00:002018-03-09T11:08:24.632+00:00All I ever seem to say about your lovely pieces is...All I ever seem to say about your lovely pieces is thank you, Julia, so here I go again. Thank you most sincerely. One of my old dad's favourites was the French music hall piece Tout va tres bien, Madame la Marquise, which we used to sing together. I've just dug out the music, and I'm going to relearn it!Jan Needlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15823078224282953782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-58357725172273593092018-03-09T10:57:56.120+00:002018-03-09T10:57:56.120+00:00Music sews things, and people, together. It's...Music sews things, and people, together. It's a structure to hang thoughts on, and despite keeping time, it's outside (chronological) time in some ways, so it's often something which remains when a lot of other things have gone from a damaged brain, or mind. Thank you for this and all your pieces on your mother and her dementia Julia. I hope you'll consider publishing the whole sequence one day. Lydia Bennethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09328239009863878547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-87579136063211709752018-03-09T10:39:54.148+00:002018-03-09T10:39:54.148+00:00Thank you so much for this warm and inspiring piec...Thank you so much for this warm and inspiring piece, Julia. It has encouraged me to return to my piano. (Sadly, I gave up long ago because music had become a chore. I think it's time I found comfort in it again.)Rosalie Warrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10790708661647164052noreply@blogger.com