With all the excitement that I shared with you in my last blog about all the talented musicians, I neglected to tell you about some of the other exciting projects that I worked on with Jarome while he was in China.  I’m thrilled to inform you that I plan to release the love and marriage themed CD mid to end of January 2009 (if all goes smoothly)!  It is entitled, ‘Birds of Love’.  The vocals have all been recorded and Jarome is now working on mixing each of the songs.  The music will sound incredible as the instrumentation includes live oboe, cello, french horn, flute, guitar and piano.

We have already chosen all the quotations from different sources that will be included in the package in a special booklet that will be covered with Chinese gold silk.  So we’re in the process now of designing the layout of the booklet in a modern Chinese style.  This project is unlike any other that I have seen in that it will be a product with music and a booklet with beautiful Chinese illustrations and inspirational quotations.  I will share more with you as the project progresses.

I may not have mentioned to you that I am also working on an instrumental CD.  We recorded two of the pieces on the piano while Jarome was here and edited them together.  It was lots of fun coming up with titles for the songs and trying to hear what the pieces portrayed as there are no lyrics!  I will be practising the instrumentals daily so that I can record more pieces very soon.

It is so enjoyable juggling several projects at the same time (there is another music project we’re working on that I haven’t mentioned yet).  I hope to share several of these projects with you very soon and will blog in more detail about each of them as they progress.  I look forward to showing you a sneek peek of a part of the marriage booklet soon.

Thought of the Day:

“What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined… to strengthen each other… to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.”  - George Eliot

The marriage CD project is now in full swing and almost all the vocals have been recorded.  We are now working on adding live instrumentation to the pieces.  I look forward to going over all the songs with Jarome, hearing the different live instruments that were recently recorded and choosing the best parts.  I did not have the opportunity to do that in person with Jarome for the ‘Fire and Gold’ CD and am cherishing the chance to do so this time. As I had written in a previous blog, this next CD will be accompanied by a special booklet which will include quotations on love and marriage.  I am compiling quotations and am including quotes and lovely sayings from different sources that are inspirational and enchanting.  If you come across any favorite quotes on this theme or have written your own poems/quotes on the subject, please send them.  Thanks! Below are a few of my favorite quotes that will be printed in the booklet:

“Love is the poetry of the senses.” - Honore de Balzac

“Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.” - Simone Signoret

“…Marriage is the commitment of the two parties one to the other, and their mutual attachment of mind and heart. Each must, however, exercise the utmost care to become thoroughly acquainted with the character of the other, that the binding covenant between them may be a tie that will endure forever. Their purpose must be this: to become loving companions and comrades and at one with each other for time and eternity…” - Abdu’l-Baha

Thought of the Day:

“Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons.”

- Kahlil Gibran