NANCY'S MUSIC

THE MAGIC OF MUSIC

This page is about the music my husband and I are currently listening to. 
I tried to major in music my first couple of years in college, but "they" wanted me to perform and I didn't want to perform.  I just wanted to learn everything I could about the magic of music. 
I thought I could learn what made music so powerful a force. 
That was the academic arrogance of a teenager.
 I don't try to understand it now; I just close my eyes and stop thinking.

My husband is a huge fan of the Blues and any excellent guitarist. I appreciate just about any kind of music but I'm partial to folk music, 60's 'Rock and Roll', classical piano and sacred music played on a pipe organ. Something in my soul is sensitive to percussion instruments.  We have a good friend who will listen to anything once, all the way through, and he introduces us to a lot of great music we would not otherwise explore.  (Thanks, Alan!) 

Music is such a subjective and emotional medium. I just want to share with you what I enjoy.  If you've found a piece of music that can just rearrange your priorities in a heartbeat, please share it with me.
 

Norah Jones
CD:   Come Away With Me
This CD is from a 22 year old New Yorker who must have spent hours listening to Nina Simone.
Norah Jones has a beautiful throaty voice and a style that is just entrancing. Its sound is a little from a smokey jazz club and a little from a piano bar on a quiet night. I've been listening to this CD every day for a couple of weeks now and it still just takes my breath away in places. This is mellow music, wonderfully soothing with just perfect vocal harmonies.

Last updated 12/26/02