Sometimes it happens, for whatever reason, that we cannot achieve everything we want to do. Well, many times. In some ocasions, external factors are the cause of not realizing certain ideas, sometimes we don't have time, and sometimes that initial idea in our head simply has to mature and crystallize. Maybe we need days, weeks or months to create and realize those ideas. And the most important thing is that we have to feel the call to achieve something. It doesn't work without that spark.
So it happened that the #SadSunday posts, although I loved to work around them, just disappeared for a while. I don't know exactly why, I can just guess. Perhaps a combination of the situations mentioned above. But what is maybe more certain, that the urge to post sad music containing publication was not my priority.
However, that’s just a trap in the process of thinking because I was probably playing music that could have caused a feeling of sadness. It's not that I have always played only cheerful, bright sort of music, right? After all, it is very subjective how you feel while listening to some kind of music, and also, it is relative to how your audience will feel the music you perform. Maybe a beautiful tune also can cause tears in someone's eyes, and the saddest music can bring enjoyment, and after all, happiness, because that experience happened. What IS important is that your audience feels something, that you share those vibes on which the life of a musical composition depends and they catch them. Without that feature, music is not alive.
Two days ago, I finally felt that impulse to play and share music that can provoke that feeling of melancholy. The inspiration arrived right in my heart, and the idea of taking again on the SadSunday post warmed up my thoughts. What will the listeners feel, I don't know, it is relative :) However, you can let me know how did you feel this piece I play here. What was your reaction to this piece, The Poet Acts? The composer is Philip Glass, who wrote a large number of great pieces! This one appeared in the movie The Hours, and the piano arrangement I play here is done by Michael Riesman and Nico Muhly.
The cover photo is my original photo, from a mountain, Zlatibor
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Usually, sad music isn't giving me a sad feeling. Though this morning it did. It invoked memories of a guy (an acquaintance) that sadly enough, passed away last week. Though I don't know him from classical-like music, it brought up memories about him. He was maybe one of the most positive peeps in the music event business in my country. He came up with a set of great club and festival events I enjoyed a lot over the past 20+ years. He was one of the few that regardless of everything, programmed music he really liked, even when this meant fewer peeps coming to his events. Whenever I saw him, he was always smiling and radiating positivity.
BTW, I do like the song!
ps The SadSunday tag seems to have become your own MiPiano tag :)
Well, SadSunday seems that worked this time, an emotion that went from the composer, through the performer to the listener.
Sorry to hear the loss of this acquaintance, an important guy from the music-events field you described that left this world. But I am sure, if he was that positive, he would like his family, friends, acquaintances to stay positive, even in his absence.
I knew a guy, he lived the next door in the building where I lived in Novi Sad. He was always joking than if he dies, he wants people sing cheerful songs in his funeral. I know, seems crazy but he wanted others to stay in positive vibes, even without him (one day when it happens).
Btw, thank you so much for your support 🦄 Your other shoulder was visited by an angel which convinced you ;)
Ok, checked the SadSunday tag, maybe lately mostly Mipiano tag, though you also appears some times... But at the time I was not here, there are lots of posts with this tag. I suppose those users are maybe not active anymore?
However, maybe someone sees this post and decides to do Sad Sunday posts too...it would be interesting 😊
So many "maybies" in this message 🤦🏻♀️
I like your 'neighbour' view a LOT: cheerful songs because the peeps left behind will continue their lives on this planet and hopefully with an as positive mindset as possible.
Maybe a bit joking, but I always say: I want to be buried when I died, so the peeps coming to my funeral can enjoy a party on top of my grave. So DJs, drinks and everything shall be there :)
SadSunday: this tag as to so many other tags, had more usage before we got the community features, I think. Those days, peeps still browsed through tags. I feel these days, tags are not used anymore to discover posts. In my curation, I use some of the music tags though, not sure what other curators doing, if they still using tags for discovery.
Maybe.... always an interesting word. Actually, when we think in lots of maybe's, maybe this shows we don't mind too much what happens in the future which will give is more time (and focus) to the present... which is a good thing? So maybe 'maybe' are good! :)
Hm, your plan sounds great, I mean we are talking about a funeral, how can it be something great.. but yes, absolutely cool 🙌😎
I never thought how I would like to be mine. Maybe because I think it is not the time for it jet 😂 Not the usual funeral music, that is for sure. But interestingly, for example Chopin wrote the Funeral March as a movement in his piano sonata no. 2 - B flat minor. That I would NOT like to be played. Mozart, Requiem...hm, neither music from there. Ow, Rachmaninoff, piano concerto no 2 , but the same love goes to piano concerto no 3 too. Could be some Ennio Morricone music, or Hanz Zimmer, Neiman, Tiersen, Einaudi... Well, neither, I don't fit in any movie 🤣
Tags. I always wondered to what extent they are important, or how some posts are discovered if not posted in any community. With niche communities, tags are not that crucial, as post should be published in that community anyway. But still, maybe they are important. Going back to maybe right in the same paragraph :))
Funeral and music. I would say: Go different, whatever that is :)
Will think of something :) I hope, life will give me time to come up with a plan 😅
I find these sad pieces more beautiful than they happy counterparts. It is a thing of how each one's brain works. Of course, watching you play with your elegance is bliss. The piece makes me thing of past things and how the influence the future. As if the repetitions and slight changes in the phrases hold an element of what had been done and what little control exists in what comes next.
Past things...little control what comes next...
Thoughts that inspired the post we made some time ago 😊
Regarding what is more beautiful, it is indeed a personal thing. Many times, all of us, tend to like more the sad tunes. But, how good to hear an upbeat song that lifts the mood, increase the heartbeat and makes you move. Isn't it just awesome? 😃
Indeed. I find it even more special when pieces have these changes from parallel keys and all that sadness gets carried onto the major part and it sounds even more beautiful.
Oh yes, modulation is a great tool to change our mood too 😇🎶🎶
Indeed. That's the magic of music. 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
I liked the music.
What did I feel?
It's a little difficult to explain, it's like the ebb and flow of a wave, but not sadness, but thoughtfulness and expectation of something.
That is nice, thoughtfulness and expectation of something. I like the reaction you got 😇
And yes, it is difficult to express with words the reaction we get through music. Not an easy task, but I am glad you managed to do that :)
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The feeling of Sunday melancholy is portrayed so well through the piece and the breathtaking views of the photo you managed to get 👏 Thank you for sharing this. 😄This is truly amazing @mipiano 🙌
Hey there @nithwit
As I mentioned in your post, nice to see you again back 👌
Thanks for checking out the Sad Sunday topic and your kind comment. The photo is one from our visit, now already many years ago, to that mountain. Amazing indeed, I loved be there. With a bit of melancholy, remembering those days of vacations spent there... And also with happy feelings as that experience happened :)
This at certain moments sounded like a Stephen King movie, a bit of sadness, mystery and drama but it also conveyed a lot of tranquility, it's a very complete piece.
How good comparison, I agree that there is some mistery and drama, calm-drama in this piece 😁
Una pieza espectacular @mipiano, realmente sentí calma y paz en medio de unos días un poco difíciles, como te dije en estos días el piano es mágico y siempre que lo tocas lo confirmas 👏👏👏👏👏❤️
Me alegro que te ha servido como calma, a mí me gustó también la obra. Espero que todas las dificultades puedas resolver, y afrontar con calma y sabiduría. 😇
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Thanks for this as well 😊