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As the old Soviet joke goes, “In the Soviet Union, we know what the future holds. It’s the past that’s always changing.”      (lyrics below, after the song description)                                             
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In this small, quaint college town, the town-gown relationship, for most of the 150 plus years since the college’s founding, had been productive.  The town benefited economically,  & students appreciated the town's charm, history & heritage.   Often on sunny days, classes of students would visit the park at the downtown square, brought by their history professors to learn not only of the town's history, but also about eleven young local men lost in America's Civil War, memorialized by the modest statue of a lone soldier, who had stood like a sentry at the the park's entrance since 1905.

But times change, don't they...
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More Americans died in the American Civil War than in any other war in our country's history, including each of the World Wars.  In my song, the word "Daughters" references the Daughters Of The Confederacy, a women's civic group formed in the 1890's by daughters (and wives & nieces) of men lost in that war.  The attached picture is the inscription on the base of a statue of a uniformed soldier, standing in a park in Dallas, Georgia, a small town 30 miles northwest of Atlanta.
                                                            



Lyrics....
My name is McKenzie, and Jenkins and Embry,
And eight other names you still hear in these parts,
For over a century, I stood quiet at the entry,
On East Main into Lafayette Park,
A plaque was engraved, told why I was placed,
On those gardened grounds,
In this Small American Town.

Commissioned in 1905,
By the Daughters for fathers who died,
I was erected to honor eleven so bold,
Not a single one knowing he’d never grow old,
On these boys account I’d forever stand proud,
Stand sturdy & stout,
In this Small American Town.

The kids from the college on Heritage Hill,
Would hold class in the park’s warm sunshine,
They learned of this cruel war we waged with ourselves,
How 600,000 had died,
And of eleven from here just about their age,
Small farmers & blacksmiths & craftsmen by trade,
None fought for cotton, not one owned a slave,
And they learned why the Daughters placed me on that mound,
To keep those boys’ memories around,
In this Small American Town.

But enlightened new students don’t meet in that space,
Through new glasses old wars just don’t look the same,
Now scholars say men who went off to that war,
Fought not out of duty, but hate,
I feared I’d be forgotten by Heritage Hill,
Yesterday’s soldiers, obscure battlefields,
But alas, rearranged history determined my fate,
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Wise men have long warned of changing the past,
Of purges & vengeance & iconoclasts,
Then one fateful night there was smoke rolling down from the Hill,

Quickly surrounded by torches of fire,
Cursing & spitting & rage in the air,
Rope round my shoulders, a cheer by the crowd,
I came crashing down to the ground….
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An uneasy quiet in the town since that day,
Hushed conversations about how things have changed,
But up on the Hill it’s all smiles & goodwill,
For it’s the 2nd weekend in May,
Ceremonial speeches, awards all around,
Uncles & aunts & parents in town,
To watch the sweet children who torched & burned me to the ground,
Be awarded their caps & their gowns,
In this Small American Town.

Small American Town

The ancient mystery about Men & Women, still trying to figure each other out!

Good luck w that xD

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Samples used

Ella Fitzgerald - You don't know what love is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zkYRDMidxA

SRV - Little Wing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An4uDegHB8s

Steve Vai - Tender Surrender ( small samples )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw74sDWPH7U

Movie - Strangers when we meet (1960)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19JXVQoQVUw

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Remixed by LS / 2022.

Woman, stop asking me these difficult questions

Get Home
Written and performed by Todd Brown
Sonic adornments provided by Boxy https://soundcloud.com/boxy-683069948
All rights reserved 2/18/2023


All that we are
is not near or too far
all that we do
will not make us brand new

Take the ruby from my hand
and see how it glows
a thousand yesterdays will hold on tight
until we get home

We've travelled so far
not to know who we are
Curtains will fall
making clear to us all

Take the locket from my hand
and see how it shines
a thousand yesterdays won't make it last
until the end of time

I've waited so long
just to find
If you'd just

Take the ruby from my hand
and see how it glows
a thousand yesterdays will hold on tight
until we get home

Get Home

Guitar Dialogue(Guitar solo)

New & Different

Although quite simple to record, it took me a few weeks to write down a text and sing it over this beautiful guitar piece from Neno J. I used the original title as an inspiration for the text.

Circle of Circles 

Planets move in the dome of stars in surprising ways.
Sometimes forward, sometimes backward  in the celestial orb.

Since perfect circles are the only way of gods,
Ptolemy used circles within circles 
to explain those planetary retrogressions.
That was such a powerful idea 
that Fourier would later use.
Indeed, any periodic smooth motion
can be described by a large enough set of epicycles.

And yet, it all became history, 
thanks to Copernic, Kepler and Newton.
The epicycles were cast out from heaven
by the Occam's razor curse.
And I'm trying to learn the sobering lesson:
Everything gets simpler 
when we don't place ourselves in the center.

Your perfect circles, woman, are the chosen shape of gods.
But will the Fast Fourier Transform ever explain your beauty?

I watch you move in this world of scars in surprising ways.
But what is forward and what is backward in this oblivious maze?

Circle Of Circles JFC (Over Neno J. Guitar Piece)

Recorded in Modesto, Ca.   Featuring Sergio Parraga Congas, Bongos. Gibson 335 Electric Guitar solo, Trumpet solo. Fender Rhodes Electric Piano solo. Acoustic Bass. Roland Synthesizer Bass. Fender Rhodes Electric Piano Rhythm. Vibraphone Rhythm. Horn section Alto, Tenor, Baritone Saxophones, Trumpet. Trap full kit Drum set. Percussion, Congas, Bongos, Timbales, 22" Zildjen Crash Cymbal, Cow bell, Ago go bells.

Hermosa

Power housing

Power Housing

Piano and strings collab with Carlos Hof: https://soundcloud.com/vonlucrezia
Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7mUoboKGo4ybxYXoo9nlgr?si=33s0QHr6StSkx60UC0aUOw

This composition, based on a melodic Alberti bass, fills the air with promises of bright beginnings, new hopes, adventures, and nostalgy.

~~~~~~~
Soft morn breezes whispers 
secrets of the day
Promising fresh adventures 
along its way..
With shining hopes 
of a bright beginning
The new day turns into
gentle reminiscing..

Embrace this day 
with light and hope 
We face with all our might
troubles to cope..
For life is but a journey
a magnificent ride
We looked in wonder
the tears we cried..

~SEC

Morning Breeze in D Major

Morning Breeze in D Major (Piano and Strings)

Morning Breeze in D Major (Piano and Strings) collab with Carlos Hof

La Lumière

Listen to the Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/the-little-mermaid-music-for
The Little Mermaid – The Sea Witch
August 2023
Duration: 3:50
Painting by Marie-Jose Payannet
Music for Danse Etoile Ballet (www.danseetoile.org) who will be performing The Little Mermaid Ballet January 2024 in Colorado.
The Little Mermaid decides to go to the Sea Witch: she longs for a human soul so the prince will return her love.  After a long journey, she comes to a space of marshy ground, in the midst of this spot stands a house built with the bones of shipwrecked human beings.  “I know what you want,” says The Sea Witch, “it is very stupid of you, but you shall have your way, and it will bring you to sorrow, my pretty princess.”  “You want to get rid of your fish's tail and to have two legs like human beings on Earth so that the young Prince may fall in love with you and that you may have an immortal soul”.  “You must give me your lovely voice, I will have the best thing for the price of my potion”. “Put out your tongue,” says the Sea Witch, “so that I may cut it off as my payment, then you shall have your wish.”  Then The Sea Witch cuts off the Little Mermaid's tongue so that she becomes dumb and will never speak or sing again.  Paraphrased from "The Little Mermaid" by Hans Christian Andersen.
For piano, strings, flute, clarinet, English horn, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, tuba, virtual instruments, sound effects and percussion.

The Little Mermaid  - The Sea Witch

Park Meditation (For three guitars)

What Was I Made For? (Piano Quartet) (18 April, Pre-save): https://gyro.to/WhatWasIMadeFor

New Romance in Time Piano EP
https://gyro.to/RomanceinTime

Most beautiful romantic melodies (Full piano performances of the works in Romance in Time EP)
https://youtu.be/K62TuGv0VL8

25 Feb Jazz Meets Classical Piano Livestream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyP8LHN3sa0

New Year Piano Concert Live: Mon 1 Jan 2024  @8 PM PST (new time)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YuwrQ8sWtU

Also, I was not on SC for several months before because they do not accept my email, cox.net and I needed to switch to another email address. However, their support is very slow. Right now taking a small break because of neck injury.


Thoughts on a Still Night: releases 27 October: https://gyro.to/ThoughtsonaStillNight

Cinema Paradiso for violin and piano now out under new moniker Sharon Chen Music Covers! listen https://bit.ly/3SSHjNl

Thanks for subbing to my YouTube for piano and violin performances/lives! https://www.youtube.com/c/SharonChenMusic

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I am a classically-trained composer, violinist, pianist; an award-nominated composer. Spring's Hope was nominated for One World Music Radio’s (UK) Best Piano with Instrumentation Single (2021). Harvard College grad with honors in Music and East Asian Languages and Civilizations. I was a violinist but became a composer, pianist recently because of ongoing health problems. I am a poet, dreamer, writer..see my poems on Twitter. My songs are twinged with nostalgia, introspection; often incorporate themes of darkness evolving into light.

Watch for originals and covers on both instruments on YouTube and Spotify. Thanks for subbing to my YouTube and following me on Spotify. Find different works on my Bandcamp, One World Music Radio too.
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Dawn of the morning lightly caresses
The moon touch of our hearts reveals 
In the blackest of nights..
In the breathlessness of circumstances 
The embracing hearts slowly heals..

~SEC

Morning Breeze in D Major (Piano and Strings) collab with Carlos Hof

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