SKU: AX.00-PC-0019106_PART2_ASX

UPC: 038081583792.

SKU: AX.00-PR-0007344

UPC: 038081583792.

SKU: A0.1012713

Music and song composed by me

                                                        ALL  AS  BEFORE

Tired flower bends

 the head photos in carved marble

sad smell of the past along your tree-lined avenue

how much peace in this place

where you stand hidden

cobwebs on your time and the scent of regret

 while I touch your beautiful face

 I ask myself who decided that your time would stop and that for you all would be over

 I, minstrel of my time, tell a thousand stories

 chronicles written in pencil real-life stories

story now finished my fingers still drive,

 find notes and then the enchantment to disperse them in the wind

there was a king in love, by a bewitched spell,

with the madwoman his queen and everything comes back as before

there tucked away in a corner

 There is a pathetic clown

Look closer: it’s a little girl and everything comes back as before

You clown what would you do?

You want to approach the king and then you want to tell him of her polluted heart

but him, he does not want to be touched and you have to amuse her

smile and do not tire continue your ... dance ...

in the void and silence

suspended in time

 for your queen and everything comes back as before

 before your leap

do you want to fly high

mixed-up Icarus you have fallen into emptiness

the beating of the heart makes too much noise

 rumbles here within into emptiness and silence

no, do not love me,

 now or ever and hang on till the ultimate pain

she'll pressure you and insinuate herself into your mind and end by doing you harm

 but I invisible to your eyes and I want to hug you,

you do not want

I would like to tell you what you do not know of me

and then on swings of fantasy

 my hand close to yours

we'll soar to the heights where she is not there

 if you want I will reinvent myself for you

And I may please you ,I know

but with your eyes you’ve already answered me and hidden I'll go ..

The winter does not end

the cold seems eternal

 here the sun dies ,effaces itself and then disappears

Once upon a time there was or still is, who knows

a minstrel that no longer has a court

and he belongs to nobody, and no one will stop him

while closing the door ,the king will delete him

abracadabra here in my Kingdom

nothing caresses, no kiss of goodby

my name in history was written in pencil

to be able to delete from a faded page

the mind has its woodworm and you can not heal it

past, present and she who reigns everywhere

 pages of your life flowing through my fingers

for a king, tired and sick,

who has not had a happy ending

the spell is broken and now the veil has fallen

regret makes its way into him and the minstrel would approach him

 puppet in love ,now disconnected from your wires

seek your child and there is nothing like before

there is the sunset in your eyes

 but I'm here by your side

 a daddy and his little girl and there is nothing like before .... .....

the be.

SKU: A0.710425

A passionate lament, filled with heartache and hesitant desire. She was just 17; he was 19. A young romance, cut-off at first bloom. In a suburban parlour room, with only a wireless and fireplace for company, held only by the slow, cold hands of a ticking clock, Mirla is longing for Arthur and hoping for his safe return. Longing is the second track from Mirla's album Solitaire (The Virtue of Patience) .

SKU: AX.00-PC-0019106_PART7_BSX

UPC: 038081583792.

SKU: A0.1191381

Please contact me by email at jfries@ptd.net to make a special request or to find out all that I have to offer and to express your comments or concerns.  You can also type John Fries in the searchbar to see all I have to offer.   They All Laughed is a song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, written for the 1937 film Shall We Dance where it was introduced by Ginger Rogers as part of a song and dance routine with Fred Astaire.  The lyrics compare those who laughed at me, wanting you with those who laughed at some of history's famous scientific and industrial pioneers, asking, Who's got the last laugh now? People and advances mentioned are Christopher Columbus's proof the Earth is round; Thomas Edison's phonograph; Guglielmo Marconi's wireless telegraphy; the Wright brothers's first flight; the Rockefeller Center; Eli Whitney's cotton gin; Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat; Milton S. Hershey's Hershey bar chocolate; and Henry Ford's Tin Lizzy Model T car.

SKU: AX.00-PC-0019106_PART3_TPT

UPC: 038081583792.

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UPC: 038081583792.

SKU: AX.00-PC-0019106_PART6_EUPTC

UPC: 038081583792.

SKU: AX.98-DST6302S

UPC: 674398231201.

SKU: A0.1476322

This work was the result of a collaborative project that I had with clarinetist Liz Leehey. Our idea was to have a composition that she would perform for hospitals, support groups and other organizations where music would be an agent of healing. Although a variety of circumstances interfered with our goal, I was so pleased with this eight movement duet for clarinet and piano, that I decided to publish it. I'll think you and your audiences will resonnate with each of the movements.
Duration: 21'. Year of Composition: 2004
The eight movements are as follows:
I. Joy
II. Loneliness
III. Wired
IV. Peacefulness
V. Worry and Anxiety
VI. Anger and Frustration
VII. Sadness
VIII. Enthusiasm and Excitement
For further information, questions and interest in performing this piece, please visit: www.dianamascari.com