Classycool Muses

Here is the piano fantasy from ‘Valley of the Ice Flowers’ written and performed by Mel Stallwood after spending dreamy moments at the real ‘fairy cupboards’ in Teesdale

Beautiful and tender piano music by Mel Stallwood accompanies Jane Carol’s poem ‘Just Waiting’ – the moving tribute to the life of Sharon Reid who died age 20 on the 4th August 1992

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The sad and evocative piano music of Mel Stallwood brought to its tragic reality by the words of poet Jane Carol

Eric Satie

Here’s a little tune that I’m not totally satie’s fied with. It is a perfectly lamentable effort called ‘Paul’s Lament’. On Satie-day Paul through out the challenge to write a Gymnopedie on the spot (or even a  Gnossienne), so here is the attempt. It took a few minutes to get the the tune and about four hours to muck around with the embellishments. It may be a while before it is Satie’s factory…

January 2011: Herbi Dumplinz’s promised stride album has arrived!