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Mr. Hartmann, I really enjoyed your "Appalachia Suite". It reminded me of the great english composer John Ireland, but with your own joyful american "appalachian style", different than Copland. From your music, I understand your spirit and wish you well.

Rabbi Avraham

Your "Blue Ridge Sunrise" is a wonderful work. Bravo!

All the best.

Thanks Tony. Let me know whether or not you were able to play them. All are MP3, but the latest one I had to compress more to get it under 20MB.

 

I also started to listen to your music while at work, and I like it. I'm going to wait 'til I get home to hear on better speakers.

 

Bob Hunter 

Well I can't wait to listen Tony. Thanks for posting some of your music.

Incidentally, my post was not so much in reference to those like yourself who compose 8 or 16 hours a day (or even a week), but more at the possibility that many accounts might be simply a placeholder for some who in a whimsical moment of boredom say to themselves " Hey! hell yeah. I'm a composer too!" - then sign up, never to return, participate, or probably even write a note in their lives.

Oh well, it doesn't matter anyway, and I'm still undecided on whether to regard this as a technically focused forum on the topic of music making or just another social networking experience. At times I have to turn away from all of the contrived posturing and lowbrow banter and actually write some music (imagine that, what a novel concept!), but at other times resign myself to enjoying the mayhem with a shrug.

No harm, no foul.

Hi Tony,
I found a copy of a live version, recorded in Europe and presented on an album called 'The Road to You', is this what you're referring to? A much more relaxed and gentle performance indeed.
i've looked around for a studio version, but sadly nothing to be found. I do have some faint echoes of this piece, somewhere in my head, but cannot for the life of me place where I heard it before,
Anyhow, thanks again and best regards,.
Russell

Thank you Tony, that's a completely gorgeous composition. I've recently discovered his trio work, (last couple of weeks) but will now also get hold of a download of this piece. I've a very worn out vinyl copy of Travels, the title track of which I care for a great deal, time to dig it out again I think?
Off to bed now, 1.00 am and work in the morning, Goodnight, and thanks very much for looking that up for me, and for making me aware of it

cheers

Hi Tony,
Thank you for taking the time to listen to Endurance. I’m very grateful for your kind words and If you feel that I “nailed the mood”, then I guess that you’re familiar with Shackleton’s exploits in the South Atlantic? It was my first composition, and I must admit to having been completely overawed by the recollections of Worsley, Lansing, and the great man himself for a few years now. It was a natural first choice of subject.
I looked around for Last Train Home, found the movie, but couldn’t find a soundtrack anywhere. Could you point me to a link? You obviously hold it in great esteem?
Once again thank you for your kind words,

Regards,

Russell

Thanks for your kind words, Tony.
Best wishes from Los Angeles,
Stephen

Hi Tony: Thanks for listening and for your kind comments. Perhaps you can help me on a related matter. Several people have been nice enough to post comments on this piece and I have received emails letting me know that comments have been posted but yours is the first I've been able to actually see on my page. I'm a newcomer to this forum as you know so I must be doing something wrong but I can't figure out what it is. Can you pointme in the right direction?

Thanks again

//p