Comments on: Music by Anne Porter

By: Susan Gabriel

Susan Gabriel — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:05:26 +0000

Hi Diana,
Great to hear from you. Thanks for remembering my music-making so fondly. I hope to get back into it soon. Yes, I have seen August Rush. I really liked it.

By: Diana Hope Gooding

Diana Hope Gooding — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:25:25 +0000

Hi Susan,
Lovely poem…reminds me of you and your wonderful soulful flute playing in the mezannine of Circular Church…it was such a gift to all of us who were there…also, if you haven’t seen August Rush, I would recommend it…it, too, resonates with this poem for me.

By: Susan Gabriel

Susan Gabriel — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:28:31 +0000

Thanks, Pierce. I will definitely check out “Under Old Earth.” I like to think that prose can be like music. At one time in my life I played flute professionally, and as a writer I am always working to capture the tone and rhythm of a story.

By: Pierce Watters

Pierce Watters — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:15:59 +0000

I love many kinds of music but it is the music itself that most often moves me. Lyrics are nice, kind of aids at participation when one does not play an instrument, but the music is the thing. The closest I ever saw, in prose, was Cordwainer Smith’s “Under Old Earth” and the congohelium.

By: Susan Gabriel

Susan Gabriel — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:05:47 +0000

Hi Janet. Thanks for your comment. I love music that tells a story, too. I’m glad you enjoyed the poem.

By: Janet Burns

Janet Burns — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:32:04 +0000

I love all kinds of music. I love music that tells a story. Slow meaningful songs. I love Sarah MacClaughlin, her music touchs my heart and my soul. I also love, Il Divo, Celtic Thunder and Josh Grobin. I play these cd’s when I just want to escape and reminisce.
They all sing songs that remind me of my past and my present, good times and bad times. It is wonderful that music and poems can do that. That poem I just read reminded me in some ways of myself. It was very nice.