In a message dated 1/6/01 11:16:19 AM, SCJoniGuy writes: >Here's the blurb about the very talented Mr. Simon... > >"9. Fred Simon, "Dreamhouse" (Naim): A CD that creates its own dream environment, >this trio outing by pianist Simon boasts lovely, restfully unfolding melodies >that draw liberally from folk and classical forms. Featuring bassist Kelly >Sill and drummer Sarah Allen (Simon's wife), the music is carried by a >decisive rhythmic pulse even as it strives after poetry." You know, that is so true ... >Congrats to you Fred! Hmmm...music combined with poetry...WHERE did you >ever come up with THAT idea?! ;~D Thanks, Bob. I really appreciate all the kind thoughts and good wishes. I think the reviewer, Lloyd Sachs (clearly a very wise man), was referring more to musical "poetry," although one of the tunes on DREAMHOUSE, entitled "Love Comes Quietly," is an instrumental version of my literal setting of a poem by Robert Creeley of the same title. (In fact, a funny-but-not-so-funny story is that I had wanted to title the whole album LOVE COMES QUIETLY but the record label, based in England, nixed it because they were afraid it would taken as double entendre, actually citing "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" as precedent. And I thought it was Americans who were sex-crazed yet uptight.) Anyway, I hope to record the vocal version of it one day as part of my ongoing "pop art-songs" project, which thus far includes settings of poems by Theodore Roethke, Rainer Maria Rilke, Dylan Thomas, Robert Creeley, and even a few of my own. For those not familiar with Robert Creeley, here is the poem, offered to entice you all to buy the album, of course: Love Comes Quietly Love comes quietly, finallyRobert Creeley OK, that's about all the self-serving promotion I can muster today. -Fred Simon
