[musictlk] By Ear GVersus Reading Braille

Mon Dec 29 18:54:44 UTC 2008

Hi julie,

I believe I have heard of this musician, and will look for the CD. I
don't think I'll ever burn out playing gospel music, because there's so
many ways to play it, and do it well. Everytime I play a gospel number
I've played hundreds of times, I play it a little differently, even if I
don't intend to.

Nothing is lost, just the spirit dictating that slight, subtle
difference!

Thanks for the reference.

Elizabeth

-----Original Message-----
From: musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
On Behalf Of Julie C. Vogt
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 10:01 AM
To: NFBnet Music Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [musictlk] By Ear GVersus Reading Braille

Elizabeth, before you burn out on Gospel music, take a listen to Richard

Smallwood.  He has a classical music background.  My favorite CD of his
is 
"Persuaded," with Richard Smallwood, Vision, and the Washington, D.C. 
Symphony Orchestra.  You may have to look for it for a while, but it's
worth 
the search.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elizabeth Slaughter" <manutips at paulbunyan.net>
To: "'NFBnet Music Talk Mailing List'" <musictlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 4:06 PM
Subject: Re: [musictlk] By Ear GVersus Reading Braille

>I believe one thing that tired me also, was the changes in braille 
>music  notation. Also, the time it takes to learn, one hand at a time, 
>because,  of course, we cannot sight read.
>
> I pick up on music well also, and rely on recordings as well, 
> especially for sacred music.
>
> Most congregations I play for would not lend themselves for blind 
> musicians finding the music (never available anyway), waiting for it 
> to arrive, then, for me to learn it. Some songs are so spontaneously 
> presented, one must play it impromptu, or be out of the running 
> altogether.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of Julie C. Vogt
> Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 8:33 AM
> To: NFBnet Music Talk Mailing List
> Subject: [musictlk] By Ear GVersus Reading Braille
>
>
> I have a quick ear.  Except for really complicated parts, I can 
> usually hear a piece and know it.  When I was 21 and went to MacPhail 
> College of Music (which is no more) I could learn an unfamiliar sonata

> movement in about two hours and play it through.
>
> I learned to read Braille music and kept up with it till I was at 
> MacPhail.  There wasn't much Braille music for what I wanted and was 
> required to learn.  I could learn so much faster on tape, and they 
> kept changing things about the Braille music code so  that I became 
> discouraged with the Braille and left it.  I've never had a need to 
> use Braille music since then.
>
>
>
> "Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human

> soul," American Humorist Mark Twain
>
> "An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us," Dr. Kenneth 
> Jernigan, Immediate Past President, National Federation of the Blind
>
> "A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their 
> contentions are like the bars of a castle." Proverbs 18 19. KJV
>
> "Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed up in overalls 
> and looks like work." Thomas Edison.
>
> "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more 
> important than any other one thing." Abraham Lincoln
>
> "Faith is the ability to see God in the dark.," (unknown)
>
> "No one can do it for us but us," Rev. Jesse Jackson, Operation Push, 
> 1976.
>
> "With proper training, development, and opportunity, blindness can be 
> reduced to the level of a physical nuisance or characteristic," the 
> Late Dr. Kenneth Jernigan, Past President, National Federation of the 
> Blind.
>
> Julie Vogt or jcvogt at pressenter.com
>
>
>
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