I have always written in minor keys. To me there is more beauty in the sounds that make you long for the memories that touched your life in a beautiful way yet causes sadness. 

please continue to make this wonderful music. And stay safe!

Tinged with an existential melancholy, the sweetness lingers of days gone by, and days to come.

Sonni Quick

Reversible Cat

Innocence

Egal Wo

Even Now 184 (c) sherry steiner 2024
piano improvisation
A Story Without Words
Neoclassical
www.sherrysteiner.com
youtube.com/@sherrysteiner938

Even Now 184

Inspired by the musical dedication and eternal quest for beauty of the acclaimed pianist and performing concert artist - Angela Hewitt. (1958- ) 

To soar from one moment of musical beauty to another in a life that embodies a true musical path. Overcoming odds to find such a shining, glimmering, sparkling musical world in her fingertips and performing it with love and finesse and sharing this gift with the world. It is this energy and vitality that makes Angela’s life especially meaningful to the world and this piece contains exactly that.

from Heroines in Harmony, released March 29, 2018

Heroines In Harmony

A Magical Touch

Day after day my life revolves around two constants - my music and buying and selling vintage jewelry.  There is so much hate and disrespect in America being shoved down our throats that it is depressing. The only way to survive it is to crawl inside one's own mind and create a space you want to be in and for me - create the music to listen to. I enjoy the music I record, with all the little mistakes I make because I'm not an engineer. At night, if I  have trouble sleeping I  stream my music.  If you don't enjoy listening your own music why would anyone else? I often go to sleep with my music playing so it is indeed the music of my dreams

I'd Rather Be Dreaming Today

Some days have been harder than others to go through. I lose track of what day it is because of the isolation. There is sadness knowing there are millions of people who are grieving the loss of their family and friends this year that should not have happened this way.  There are many more that don't know they are on the list. I've worked hard to make it to this point. There is so much more music to play and give away hoping to leave a piece of me with them. As I play I have another great grandbaby on the way. will my music be the only way they get to know me. I guess that depends.

This piece has other instruments, 4 tracks, which often changes the story. I have also uploaded just the piano where all the music begins. The music is layered one improv over the others. There is no mixing, only what I hear in my head as I play. It can't be changed. It is what it is, what I'm feeling at that moment.  The music is completed usually in 20-30 minutes. It either works or it doesn't.

The Beginning and the End

Something Necessary 2020

Staring out my window today, a gloomy day and it's getting dark earlier and earlier. No sun to pick up the spirit to let me pretend that everything is going to be okay. Tomorrow I will wake up and everything will go back to normal as if that normal was okay - because it wasn't. If I didn't have my music to make me feel whole I couldn't stand it. Standing is getting harder before I have to lay down. It's going to be a very long winter.

Will We Heal From This

It has been a stressful year and everything I thought would happen, did. It has been ugly. Many people have lost the ability to seek the truth and thousands of everyday people joined the cult Qanon. The president has shown more racism the closer we got to this day, and those who aren't loyal to him got axed or destroyed. People are dying yet he insists they aren't. What is happening? But we have reached the next step. Tomorrow we vote. It is just the beginning of the next fight for the life of our country. I never thought, I never believed such a day would come. we have a long way to go to undo the damage  he has done, but at least we will soon know, after the ballots are counted if we will be able to begin to put the pieces back together again.

The Waiting is Almost Over Now - Maybe

The GrOOvebOx is an "ideas and support" collective
with no specific genre barriers, just alternative open minds.

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A Saner World - Peasant

It has been a long hard year for everyone and emotions have been high. From despair over loss, to fear of not being able to repair our lives and anger because not enough was done to lessen the possibility of paying this price because too many haven't wanted to believe it was happening.  This will be a year that will never be forgotten and the repercussions have only begun to be felt. We will never be the same again no matter how much we pretend we won't have to create a new normal. The year 2019 was the last year of 'Good old Days' which is my next piece of music.

A Year of Sadness

A Heavy Price to Pay

Step right up and get yer biscuits and gravy!
hilariously terrifying :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh2C7_n8ZB8

biscuits 'n gravy across the nation

Composed in StaffPad for iPad.  Music notation can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/18vZ9HROSps

Incursion

This song is a similar theme to "fold yourself away" and written around the same time 💜 

Silence inside me

So small my hand in yours,
as you lead me to the door.
My body's not my own,
in my fist a perfect stone.
Focus on the line of light,
imagine everything's alright...
Silence inside me.

And the stars replace themselves, memories are left on shelves.
Always honouring the name, nothing left to hide the shame.
Focus on the line of line, fold up small and out of sight.
Silence inside me.

Piano standing in the dust, broken things all full of rust.
Play the music from my soul, lifts me from the dark and cold, Focus on the line of light, until it fades out of sight..
Silence inside me.

A perfect stone
Who would have known
you could have flown away

Pressure growing in my brain, flames crawling down the lane, faded yellow window pane, holding long forgotten blame.
Focus on the line of light, imagine everything's alright

Silence inside me.

See the sky it's turning bright, I see the sky I see the light.
I see the sky it's turning bright, I see the sky I see the light.
I see the sky I see the light
I see the sky I see the light
Little girl I hold you in my dreams, little girl I hold you in my dreams.


silence inside me

My music pieces are all piano improvisations expressing emotions. It is music telling stories without the words. In my earIy years I sang and played piano in piano bars or fronted bands  I've been composing, teaching and performing most of my life.  I'm getting old(er) now 😔 but the great thing about creating music is it gets better the longer you play, and you have more to write about! 

This is what I leave of me to my generations to come who wonder where their desire to make music comes from. My mother also played. I learned recently that my grandmother and great grandmother were both accomplished pianists when they were young. My great grandmother sang and danced in minstrel shows in the early 1900's. I know have great-grandchildren. They will know who I am through my music. When I am gone my music will still be here. What a wonderful thought!

Will We Heal From This

Sonni Quick

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