Don't Forget the Music

Almost everyone has a story about Music in their lives.  It may be that your subject learned/played an instrument, sang, or had some other connection with music.  It may be a key part of your subject's story.

 

 

 

 

My family laugh at my efforts at music, especially singing - but with three talented singers in the family there was just not enough singing-genes to go around, so my talents lie elsewhere.

 

But I do have some stories about Music and Me. 

 

1. One that came to mind when I accidentally found the above video on YouTube.  When I was nursing in Mount Gambier in South Australia in the early 1960's, Miss Winifred Atwell played at the Odeon Theatre - and I was one of the enthralled members of the audience.
2. In 2008 in China on International Women's Day we had a full day of tours, speeches, and performances and much later a wonderful banquet, but the last performance was a group of Chinese dancers who invited members of the audience to join them in their dance at the end.  No one would do it.  I certainly didn't want to - as I was not dressed for dancing - jeans, heavy coat, sneakers etc, but in the end, as no one else would, I did so.  I couldn't manage the steps so "invented" my own - much to the amusement of all present, and huge embarrassment for me.  However, the best was to come!  Apparently it appeared on television that night!!  And the MC -a Chinese government official who I was later to meet on a regular basis for a short time, always wrote to me "Dear Blonde Disco Dancer......."
3. In 2010 for International Women's Day, and again in China one of my friends and I were invited to perform. How funny - we made it to the stage and sang "I am Australian".

  

I love classical music and jazz.  Oh, how I love Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck and many more.  I still have my collection of LP's from the 60's!!!

 

I am including a list of 5 - 10 of my favourite pieces of music in my story - and hope that if there is a memorial service for me that some of them will be played.

 

 

 

 

 

So, when you are writing about someone, don't forget the music.