I’ve been having some sales of my solo piano pieces through the sheetmusicplus and sheetmusicdirect websites. It’s gratifying to actually make some money from something I’ve written. The only creatives who typically make less from their art than composers are poets! Right now I’m doing a bunch of EZ intermediate piano arrangements of folk tunes. Here’s the video of my playing the newest, “I Will Give My Love an Apple” – https://youtu.be/SX_xHIKMnwY. This video was made when I was about 85 pounds heavier than I am now. If one of your students would enjoy playing it, they can get the sheet music at
https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/i-will-give-my-love-an-apple-piano-solo-digital-sheet-music/22492319 or https://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/en-US/se/ID_No/1318783/Product.aspx.
Author: Hilton Kean Jones
Composer and performer, retired college music professor, lyricist.
Remembering Harry Belafonte
I remember the actor, the singer, the activist,
the winner of all the awards.
A child of immigrants without documents,
the voice of song in my childhood.
I remember the concert for the bus boycott,
in Montgomery, Alabama,
and “We are the World,”
for famine in Africa,
but no one told me before today
he helped pick out the suit
for Martin Luther King, Jr
to be buried in.
I read in today’s newspaper
that he was a Peace Corps advisor
a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF.
then I thought I remembered it.
Maybe. that’s what it is like
thinking back about anyone.
I didn’t know
he started one of the first all-Black
music publishing companies
and produced for stage and screen,
and even for my family’s little TV,
though I wasn’t surprised,
because what I really remember
is that he was there when something
good could be done
with his…
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Special notice!
One City Chorus Concert Ahead
The One City Chorus, which specializes in songs about civil rights and peace, will offer a free concert Sunday April 16 at 4:00 p.m. at Allendale United Methodist Church (3803 Haines Road, St. Petersburg). A free will offering will be collected to support the Woodson Warriors Scholarship Fund to enable African American students to attend college. All are welcome at this uplifting afternoon of music! Jeff Wells from LUCC sings with the One City Chorus.
Easter at Lakewood music playlist
Here’s the list of pieces Hilton played on Easter Sunday this year.
Gathering Music
The Cherry Tree — John Ireland
Sonata “Pathetique” Op. 13 – II. Adagio cantabile — Ludwig Beethoven
Meditation (from “Thaïs”) — Jules Massenet
First Arabesque — Claude Debussy
Air with Variations (from “Suite F major HWV 430”) –George Frideric Handel
Ashokan Farewell — Jay Unger
May It Be — Enya, Nicky Ryan, Roma Ryan
In Dreams — Fran Walsh, Howard Shore
Service
Prelude: Feuilles Volantes 1 — Henri Duparc
Offertory:
Come Sunday — Duke Ellington
Prelude II — George Gershwin
Communion:
What a Wonderful World — George Weiss, Bob Thiele
Sonata 16 C Major K545, II — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
You Raise Me Up — Rolf Løvland, Brendan Graham
Postlude: Hallelujah Chorus (from “The Messiah”) — George Frideric Handel
Oppose Another Florida Execution – VIGIL
The above flyer was made for Allendale Methodist church. Feel free to download from the folllowing links and post and distribute.
The 8×11 flyer is meant to be posted:
The two per page is intended for passing out to individuals.
At 6:00 PM on Wednesday, April 12, the state of Florida is planning to executeLouis Gaskin. Here are some actions opposing the execution,including a vigil during which we will be joined by Herman Lindsey, the 23rdinnocent man to be released from Florida’s death row:
Join Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (FADP) and otherdeath penalty opponents for a vigil during the execution from 5:00-6:00 PM onWednesday, April 12 at the northwest corner of Ulmerton Road and 49thStreet North in mid-Pinellas County. This site is close to the jail andcourt complex and is at an intersection with heavy traffic. It is wheredeath penalty opponents have gathered during executions for decades, including in February, when they opposed the execution of Donald Dillbeck. Park in the vacant lot behind the Checkers.
Special guest at the vigil will be Herman Lindsey, Executive Directorof Witness to Innocence, an activist group made up entirely of innocentpersons who survived the trauma of being sentenced to death. In 2006 he waswrongly convicted and spent three years on Florida’s death row. He wasexonerated by a unanimous Florida Supreme Court verdict which ruled that there was not enough evidence to convict him of any crime, and that he did notreceive a fair trial.
Please come hear Herman’s story and support his work to end the death penalty. Feel free to bring signs, or organizers will provide them. Reply to thisemail or call (727) 492-1590 for more information. If the execution iscommuted or postponed, we will not hold the vigil.
FADP has started a petition to the Florida Executive ClemencyBoard and Governor Ron DeSantis to stay the execution and commute LouisGaskin’s sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole. https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stay-the-execution-of-louis-gaskin/Click here to sign the petition. This link also features a summary of the detailsof Gaskin’s case and why his sentence should be commuted.
* Contact Governor Ron DeSantis at (850) 488-7146 or email theGovernor (flgov.com). Prepare for your call or email with FADP’s excellent Florida Death Penalty Fact Sheet, a summary of reasons to oppose executions in Florida. https://www.fadp.org/florida-death-penalty-fact-sheet/
The FADP website has other excellent information, including updates ondeath penalty legislation currently in the Florida legislature. Here is a linkto a brief history of the death penalty in Florida.
https://www.wptv.com/news/state/florida-death-penalty-facts-2023
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