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Lullaby for Laurie composed by David Borden for Laurie Conrad


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I wrote this for the Memorial Service of my Godnephew, but then I thought others might want to use it for a Memorial Service, or for comfort. Feel free to use it as you wish and may Angels walk with you Always! Elegie The Mysteries of Life Are as intricate and Unknowable as The deepest sea Or the fu...

http://www.ibuzzle.com/img/articleImages/602444-462216-57.jpg A Composer's Journal Entries: February 22 - March 3, 2014. Saturday, February 22 1 am Filling in lines, inner voices, piano bass, flute motives and melodies. The outline is there but the piece wants more cohesion, more imitation between ...

I. The Flute/ The Glimpse Laughter in the woods, Distant and carefree- Sunlight brilliant, Through the leaves, Against the deep green, Of the forest floor- As though two worlds met, Both perceived for an instant... II. Walking, Beauty everywhere- III. Suddenly , In a hidden glade, A solitary dancer.

http://www.ibuzzle.com/img/articleImages/602063-221725-35.jpg Image: The falls down the street from us. Thursday, February 13 Some days since I have written in this small notebook, or written any music. We have had more below zero weather, the polar vortex we are caught in continues. Walked down th...

http://www.ibuzzle.com/img/articleImages/601841-71315-16med.jpg Saturday February 1 Continued writing the Dance , sketching it out - an expansive melody line with eventually a complicated bass line and - note inner voices. For now just empty stems and held octaves in the lowest voices as points of ...

http://www.ibuzzle.com/img/articleImages/601603-39233-34med.jpg Tuesday, January 28 Inexplicably, we are still in January, still in our polar vortex - below zero weather stretches ahead for some days. Heard a bird bravely singing the other morning, like a flute in the sun - as out of place in our c...

http://www.ibuzzle.com/img/articleImages/601451-532026-51.jpg Monday, January 20 Snow earlier in the day, light, and fluffy, driven by an aggressive winter wind. Bitter cold tonight, a polar vortex of some sort bringing below zero weather while the world sleeps. Warm in the house, isolated drafts h...

http://www.ibuzzle.com/img/articleImages/601323-411418-20.jpg Image: The CD cover for the Unsung Songs cycle A Composer's Journal Entry Tuesday January 14 Today some rain here and there; a very gray, mystical, mysterious, and magical day... the trees, now shorn of leaves, more like shadows than the...

The Dancer I wrote this poem for my friend, Frieda Dean, who is an excellent dancer. Frieda recently wrote to say she was choreographing dances to my new CD, the Unsung Songs - and I wrote her this poem in return: The dancer Radiant As transparent as air, Transcending the body, A fluid sculpture of...

I am pleased to announce that as today I have radio fans from the following countries: Algeria, Italy, China, Columbia, Korea, Hungary, Kuwait, Romania, Thailand, Serbia, Saudi Arabia, Angola, The United Kingdom, the United States, India, Brazil, Indonesia, Jordan, Mexico, Malaysia, the Czech Republ...

Here are some early reviews of the new CD of the "Unsung Songs": " ... lovely gems of sound. " B.W. "Beautiful!" J.D. After hearing Laurie Conrad's "Unsung Songs", I’m trying to find some music in my house now that suits my needs but am coming up empty… I’ll g...

January 1, 2014: I am happy to announce that tracks of the CD of my new cycle The Unsung Songs: Songs of the Earth for piano, flute, cello, violin and viola are now on internet sites. This cycle was set to - haiku poems written by my violinist, William Hurley. For more information on how I wrote the...

For those of you who wish to listen: The Out of Bounds Radio Show with Tish Pearlman will feature composer and pianist Laurie Conrad. Laurie Conrad is a classical pianist and composer living in Ithaca, NY. She is listed in the Who's Who in American Music, the International Encyclopedia of Women Comp...