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John, another beautiful piece! You have quite the musical gift! Thanks for sharing!

Tom W.

Thanks Tom! Starting the Andante tomorrow morn. I figure by next week at this time the sonata should be finished. Then I may be ready for more cartoon tracks.

Best, John

John, great playing, usual. This piece struck me as silent-film era tune or something you'd hear in Fellini film. Nice stuff!

Thanks EJ! Silent film... yeah I often wander back-in-time.

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John-

Sounds great!

Maybe you wrote this one for an ITALIAN B & W FILM--

Lots of feeling in your music--

Mackie

Thanks Mackie! I may not be submitting this work to a music library. Time to look for another print publisher for my serious ambitions. Love to hear this completed sonata played on the concert stage.

Best, John

Just posted the second movement to "Life's Sonata". Starting 3rd mvmt - a fugue. Hope you enjoy...

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John, that is simply beautiful and we both hope that the neighbors don't get to you before it's finished.....or afterwards for that matter!

Beautiful, John.

Thank you J & B for the encouragement. The Andante was very important to me because that's the sonata movement that's played most often. Yeah, I'd hate to leave a work unfinished. Though not knowing when the big day is coming, I'll probably be in the middle of something.

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Thank you Floyd!

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Hey John,

The second movement especially, is very moving.

Nice work.

cheers, niteshift

Sorry John.
The links open but just says they're buffering. Goes up to 17% and sticks.
Could be my signal though.
Vic

Thanks Nite! Yeah, those slow movements always get more attention in sonatas. Remember Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata". Most people only know the slow movement.

Best, John

Thanks for giving it a try Vic. When I get time I'll post them on Broadjam.com.

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John,

The First Movement: Love the last third of it (there is no timing on that link for me to be specific) that last bit is wonderful and love how it ends, I feel that is such a complete piece and leaves you emotionally wanting more.

The Second Movement: Beautiful, if you put together a few of your compositions like this one and made a cd, I would buy it. This really appealed to me, it is emotional, but also thoughtful and has a bright hopefulness to it as well...

Wonderful work my friend, I always feel lucky to be here where I can experience your art.

Tammy

Thanks Tammy for your thoughtful and encouraging reply.

Best, John

Hi John,

OH MY GOSH, they're both SOO lovely!
No wonder Sandra whacks you on the head -- she knows that this beauty comes falling out!
Lisa

Thanks Lisa! Yeah, I guess those whacks are good for me. I'll be posting movement 3 later today, titled "Life's Complications".

John

Took a while but finally got about 45 seconds worth which sounded manic but excellent. Maybe If you played faster I'd get all of it.
Vic

Thanks Vic! I'll put the entire sonata on Broadjam when finished.

Best, John

Just added the 3rd movement. I'll devote this weekend for the finale titled "Life's Glory".

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Loaded the complete sonata. About 10 minutes long.

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Wow! Flawlessly wonderful to my ears.... Doug

Thanks Doug! I appreciate you taking the time to listen. Because of the length (and genre) it probably won't get too many listeners.

Best, John

Amazing John!i did not know i liked this music so much until i started listening to yours.Thanx!Mike

Thanks Mike! I appreciate your comment.

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Hi John,

Yes, we of the short attention span will have difficulty sitting still for 10 long minutes, but it can be done. I'm finally learning how to slow down. My new mantra is "don't just do something, sit there"! And so I have. Listening to this has been wonderful. I tried to put a story to it but it was too much like work so I just let it wash over me and enjoyed it as is. Thanks for the experience.

Ricki

Thanks Ricki! It's a story of a composer's life.

1st movement - Passion
2nd movement "A New Life" - a composer's new finished work
3rd movement - all the complications a composer faces (from financial to romance)
4th movement - the glory of living a composer's life

Best, John

STANDING OVATION!!!
BRAVISSIMO!!!

Thank you Lisa! "Bravissimo" - I like that. Flattering and yet, musical sounding. Maybe it will make one of the couple dozen of new words for 2014. Oopsy, just Googled it. It's already an established word.

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I never cease to be amazed at your talent, John. Beautiful work. No doubt, this piece will be snapped up for a feature film. Thanks for sharing what you've done with us.

This has all the elements needed by the music industry and it's so obvious you know exactly what they need. Best of luck with it.

Dave

Thanks Dave! Actually I'm not sending this to a music library. I'm looking for a print music publisher. Someone akin to G.Schirmer or Kalmus Music - though I won't get my hopes up there. They only deal with the music of big shots - like Beethoven & Mozart.

John

I have listened all the way through.....

The second and third are my favorite (just a personal preference)

The last one feels a bit too heavy for me, almost walks the line of anger/upset rather than "glory", unless you were trying to be sarcastic when you said "glory"....

I'm just being picky, but love listening to you and know you put some work and thought into this and was a pleasure to spend that much time with you and the piano....

Tammy

Thanks Tammy! My original concept was to pull out all stops in the finale (4th). So I can understand why you're thinking "heavy". As far as the title of each movement, I'll probably drop those subtitles and just go with "Life Sonata".

Best, John

Got a list of print music publishers. Now I have to start weeding through them. I recognize several of these from many years ago.

Here's the list of possibilities:

ADG Productions, Alfred Publishing Co., Alry Publications, A-R Editions, Augsburg Fortress Press, Beckenhorst Press, Inc., Belmont Music Publishers, Belwin-Mills Publishing Corp., Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., Bourne Company, Brichtmark Music, Inc., Broude Brothers Limited, C.F. Peters Corp., Carl Fisher, LLC, Charles Colin Music Publications, Cimarron Music Press, Classical Vocal Reprints, CPP/Belwin Music, Curnow Music, Dover Publications, Earthsongs, ECS Publishing, Edwin F. Kalmus & Company, Inc., Ensemble Publications, FJH Music Company, Inc., Frederick Harris Music Company, Fujihara Music Co., Inc., G. Henle USA, G. Schirmer, Inc., G.I.A. Publications, Garland Publishing, Grancino Editions, Guitar Solo Publications, Hal Leonard Corp., Hansen House, Henri Elkan Music Publisher, Hildegard Publishing Company, Hinshaw Music, Inc., Hope Publishing Company, Jack Spratt Instrumental Music, Jerona Music Corp., Kendor Music, Inc., Latham Music, Lawson Gould Music Publishers, Inc., Leyerle Publications, Liben Music Publishers, Lorenz Corporation, Lyceum Press, Magnamusic Distributors, Mark Foster Music, Masters Music Publications, McCoy Horn Library, McGinnis & Marx Music Publishers, Medici Music Press, Mel Bay Publications, Inc., Migdal Publishing, MMB Music, Inc., MorningStar Music Publishers, Music Minus One / Pocket Songs, Music Sales Corporation, Musica Obscura, Musica Romanica, Musica Russica, Nazarene Publishing, Oregon Catholic Press, Oscar Zimmerman Publications, Oxford University Press, Papagena Press, Paraclete Press, Paulus Publications, Peer Music, Plymouth Music Company, Inc., Rarities for Strings, Recital Publications, Robert King Music Sales, Santa Barbara Music Publishing, Shawnee Press, Inc., Sher Music Co., Solid Brass Music Co., Southern Music Company, St. Francis Music Publications, Tetra/Continuo Music Group, Theodore Presser Company, Viola World Publications, Vivace Press, Walton Music Corp., Warner Brothers Publications, Inc., Wayne Leupold Editions, William Grant Still Music, Willis Music

Hmm... This is starting to look like a mammoth mission. I’ve checked out several of the big names and they aren’t accepting unsolicited material. I feel like a teenager submitting my crappy songs to yester-year’s record companies. Reminds me of the Lennon song “Starting Over” – “It'll be just like starting over, starting over”…

John

John this is so pretty...the first part sounded vintage, old silent movie style but the part around 3:56 gave me chills, it is really tenderly and beautifully done
The ending is a totally different feel, somewhat scary...man, your fingers had to move fast for that.
Your talent puts me in awe.

Kim

Thanks Kim! I'm delighted to find listeners enjoying this work.

Best, John