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The Life of a man is made up of a series of dreams which write our history, as well as our children, who then start to write their own. I decided to continue writing mine as soon as I began to dream in early childhood. One doesn't need to stop the journey along the way. It is necessary to believe that the stars which light our way will never go out, and to continue to follow our dreams which inspire us in the most beautiful moments of our lives. If not, why is my star helping me to write so many fine melodies? I composed a suite for my dream, called " Melody for an Oscar", and I am convinced that one day someone will help me to reach for that Oscar in Hollywood, which I have always imagined in my dreams. No matter what, my dreams have enhanced my musical creativity, and for that I am thankful.
La vie d'un homme est faite de rêves qui s'enchainent et écrivent notre histoire pour nos enfants, qui eux, commencent déjà à écrire la leur sans qu'on s'en rends bien compte à trop les protéger... J'ai décidé de continuer à écrire la mienne telle que je l'avais toujours imaginée depuis ma plus tendre enfance... il ne faut pas arrêter le scénario en route.. il faut y croire pour que les étoiles qui nous éclairent ne s'éteignent pas, et continuent à faire rêver le monde entier, en nous inspirant les plus beaux moments de chaque vies ... j'ai écrit une suite à mon rêve...: "Melody for an Oscar"... et je suis persuadé qu'un jour ou l'autre il y aura quelqu'un pour m'aider à décrocher cet Oscar à Hollywood auquel je rêve depuis toujours... sinon, pourquoi est-ce que mon étoile m'aiderait-elle à composer d'aussi belles mélodies ? Bienvenue dans mes Rêves ! Cordialement, Didier EUZET
Like a lot of musicians... I love all the music, but, several giants and tendances have certainly a big influence to my work... : The Beatles, Guershwin, Blood Sweet and Tears, Jacques Brel, John Williams, Michel Legrand, Gabriel Yared, Chopin, Ravel, Eric Satie, Jimmy Smith, the Rythm & Blues, the Jazz, the Blues, The Bossa Nova and all Latin Music, The Spanish Music & the Flamenco, The Africans Rythms, The Corse and Pyrenenens Choir, The Religious Music, The Argentin Tango, the Reggae music... etc...
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Nice to meet you here Didier.
I hope to hear from you.
ha...my english is not very good.
un placer conocerte. Nice music! Congratulations!!
paul
Thanks for your nice words
We will keep in touch
Gabriel
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There is a similarity in my writing to the works of various artists in the last century: Picasso's revolutionary paintings, T.S. Eliot's verse with its strange juxtapositions and odd perspectives, Igor Stravinsky’s music and its clashing sounds. Even if one accepts these similarities, readers may find that their natural reaction to this work is to want to throw it into the dustbin of autobiographical history. I would anticipate this response given the conventional, the natural, reaction to literary works of this type on the part of many a student I have taught and got to know over the years. The desire for an orderly impulse, a simple, an exciting, narrative sequence may produce in such readers an initial discomfort due to their perception of what they see as my disorder and complexity and the sheer length of this work. In this autobiography, as Henry James once put it, “nothing is my last word on anything.” This disorder, this complexity, therefore, could continue for such readers almost indefinitely, at least theoretically. " These were, as Charles Dickens once said, "the best of times and the worst of times." In my more than thirty years of teaching I came across hundreds of students whom I know would take little to no delight in an analysis of these times in a form like the one found here.
The most recent additions and alterations to this fifth edition were made on September 1st 2007, the first day of spring in Australia. This was more than four years and four months after the third edition of this work was first made public in eBook form at eBookMall. It had been more than six years since the second edition of my website was first made public with extensive autobiographical material on it. A third edition of my website with a more user-friendly style and content was planned but did not eventuate. The designers referred to it as a new-look, twenty-first century edition, but it never saw the light of day. I have had a website for 11 years and what readers will find in my site is a piece of writing, an autobiography, in an abrieviated form.
As I was making a recent addition to this autobiographical work, I came across the words of Paul Johnson. "Balanced, well-adjusted, stable and secure people,” he wrote, “do not, on the whole, make good writers or good journalists. To illustrate the point, you have only to think of a few of those who have been both good writers and good journalists: Swift, Samuel Johnson, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Dickens, Marx, Hemingway, Camus, Waugh and Mark Twain--just to begin with." All these men had great personal struggles, instabilities and battles that, arguably, helped to give their writing the quality it possessed.
I’m not sure if I deserve to be ranked with this group of famous men, however much I might like the idea. But neither am I sure if I could describe myself as balanced, well-adjusted, stable and secure. I leave both of these evaluations to my readers, most of whom will never know me personally. Future biographers, too, should there ever be any, may well find their path in writing a more detached view of my life one of perplexity. But whatever their answers to the biographical enigmas that arise in their work, it is my hope that they enjoy the process of trying to resolve the questions. All they will have from me are words on paper, all that any writer leaves behind. And, as I get older, there is coming to be so much of it, words, paper and cyberspace that is.
This work is partly an account of my stabilities and instabilities, balances and imbalances. As poet, writer and autobiographer, I have gone into myself. The tale here is significantly an inner one. It is not a lonely region, but a place where I often find fresh vigour and nourish my disposition to repose. I also have a certain preoccupation with personal relationships, intensity, bi-polar illness and movement from place to place, living as I have in over two dozen towns from Baffin Island to Tasmania. It’s all part of my particular expression of a process which Baha’is call pioneering and which readers will get much exposure to in this narrative.
If the feedback I have received since the last edition to this work was completed over three years ago is anything to go on, feedback for the most part I received in relation to the first few pages of this work that I posted at a number of internet writing sites, the average reader, as I say above, is looking for a good story and is not prepared to wade through my analysis, commentary and social scientific and literary-philosophical perspectives gleaned from a variety of disciplines in the humanities. The feedback I have received has praised my work to a high degree and it has also been critical of everything from my style and content to my choice of vocabulary and my very attitude. C’est la vie. “Such is life,” as Ned Kelly is reported to have said on his way to the gallows in 1880 after a life of notoriety—and now posthumous fame in Australia. I may, one day, write a more narrative, story-oriented, book to entice readers with excitements, romance and adventure. But, for now, I leave readers with this my life as I want to write it. This book may be more epitaph than autobiography. If so, I will need a whole cemetery of tombstones.
Ron Price
1 September 2007
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