[Harp-L] Memory

[B Boggs <ceudoazul@xxxxxxxxx>]

From: Roger A Gonzales <gonz1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Creativity
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>  I wonder what players will be remembered for their music twenty 
> years from now.

I will be remembererd twenty years from now.  I will be remembered by 
my family, my 
students who play 
harmonica and my students that take music classes in the three 
elementary schools I teach, 
my community in 
which I played for, the wonderful people of music I have been so 
fortunate to work with and 
the list goes on 
and on.  

This scenario goes for everyone on this list.  ALL OF YOU will be 
remembered some how, 
some way by the 
people whose lives you touch with your music.  The coolest thing about 
creativity and playing 
is that everyone 
has a chance to make a difference.  Whether that difference is a 
positive or negative 
difference is up to all of us. 
  
Someone who makes a positive difference will leave a lasting impression 
which will last much 
longer than 
twenty years while the negative impression left will long be forgotten. 

As I am typing this I am listening to NPR show about Michael Brecker 
and the lasting 
impression he made on his 
contemporaries.  Pat Methany and Herbie Hancock, and others are 
speaking about how he 
made this lasting 
impression on them because of his creativity.  

Herbie just said of Michael brecker, "he inspired my creativity with 
his own."  Enough said...


regards,
Roger Gonzales
Fresno, CA.   


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  You got it!.
  And because music touches the heart, the performer has a chance to sow a garden with beauty and not cultivate animosity and rancor.
  It's a choice,
  Brian
   
  "We live on the kindness of others."

       
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