I composed a piano piece and in my liner notes wrote my story connected with it which you can see at the end of this description. I posted it on Bandcamp: https://nadiacripps.bandcamp.com/track/crying-daisy and on 50/90 where Kate kindly offered to collaborate on a song idea and here is our co-written song. Thank you for listening. 

Photo by zanna-76: pixabay.com/photos/daisy-sad-sadness-flower-nature-5088284/


Crying Daisy (A Story in Song)
© 2022 Nadia Cripps and Kate Stanton
Music / Piano by Nadia Cripps
Vocal melody / Vocal / Lyrics by Kate Stanton

Oh, once upon a time
in a village
a widow walked alone
on a rainy day
the tears fell from her face
she hides in the rain
she hides from the pain
oh, she hides in the rain
but not today

The widow found a daisy
with snow white petals
so pure
sunshine pushing through the sidewalk cracks
she cries
knowing
this is her soulmate saying, "hi"
"Hi".

She picks the daisy from its concrete prison
places it at home within vision
of his seat at the table
in a vase of multi-colors
so beautiful
as she wonders, how did he know?
That she misses him so
As she hides in the pain
oh she hides from the pain
she hides in the rain
but not today

because before the daisy withers
the widow takes it aside
to place it in his favorite book to dry
and frames it on the wall
above her piano
where she creates the most
BEAUTIFUL songs for him
to say "hi"
Back to her soulmate saying "hi".
Once upon a time.

Initial story by Nadia Cripps:
Once upon a time there were two people. They lived in different countries but one day a woman came to London and she met her prince charming. They became friends and then they got married. They could have lived happily ever after if her prince later didn't pass away. His widow is walking alone on a rainy day. Her tears are difficult to see because the rain hides them. She looks on the ground and there is a daisy covered in rain, just like her tears. She picks the daisy and holds it next to her heart. She met a soulmate, a flower which is crying like her and it seems to her that they are crying together, missing prince charming. Then she comes home holding a rainy daisy. She puts it in a vase which was a favourite of her prince. It has four beautiful colours: green, blue, red and gold. She will hold on to her special, happy memories of them together. But life will never be the same. It has been divided into before and after.

Crying Daisy (A Story In Song)

Thank you for listening to my Sad Winter Lullaby. It is connected with the published in our papers real life event which was truly tragic.

'Sad Winter Lullaby' © 2022 Nadia Cripps. Music, Keyboard and Demo by Nadia Cripps.

Image by Susan Cipriano / susan-lu4esm: pixabay.com/fr/illustrations/hiver-des-flocons-de-neige-angel-4643963/ which connected the following images:
pixabay.com/fr/photos/arbre-morte-sec-vieille-tronc-2487889/
pixabay.com/fr/photos/ange-ange-de-no%c3%abl-figure-3792464/
pixabay.com/fr/vectors/m%c3%a9lodie-la-musique-remarques-297686/

Sad Winter Lullaby

I'm participating in Rocktober https://rocktober.forumotion.eu/ a site inviting songwriters to create covers and upload them. I've chosen a public domain piece for my first cover.
Here is my cover of Minuet in G which for a long time was attributed to J.S.Bach as it was found in Anna Magdalena Bach book. Anna Magdalena was Bach's wife and he used to write music for her to play. I can imagine my cover as a Minuet danced during Christmas time, for fun. Thank you for listening.

Cover art has been released into the public domain by its author, Pearson Scott Foresman: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Minu…nuet_(PSF).png

Minuet In G Major Petzold

'Winter Magic' © 2023 Nadia Cripps. Music, piano and demo by Nadia Cripps.
Please watch a video by Dreamy Tales zone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPjmQ6DMI9Q

Winter Magic

'Echoes of the Ocean Waves' © 2024 Nadia Cripps and Mark Buckle. Piano music, Piano playing by Nadia Cripps; Bass guitar, Electric guitar, Violin and Percussion by Mark Buckle.

Image by Dimitris Vetsikas from Pixabay: pixabay.com/photos/wave-splash-ocean-water-sea-5473869/

Echoes Of Oceans Waves II by Nadia Cripps and Mark Buckle

Nadia Cripps is a piano teacher, a composer, a pianist and a songwriter. Nadia's music is based on classical traditions, it's gentle, romantic and melodic. Nadia would like her music to be used in movies, theatre productions, radio programmes, documentaries, performed in concerts, gigged. All Nadia's compositions are copyright. Nadia composes instrumental music and songs. Many of Nadia's songs are composed with her collaborators who write lyrics. Nadia also writes lyrics. Nadia's music and songs with her collaborators and her own songs reached semi-finals and finals in UK Songwriting Contest and Song of he Year Contest. Nadia wrote more than 30 articles on various music subjects. Please contact Nadia via your message if you are interested in collaborations or using her music.

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