NEXT CONCERT: SUEZENNE FORDHAM CHAMBER JAZZ LA"5th Stream Series" Novenmer 7th 2011
Reminding everyone of our next concert November 7th 2011 at the Donald Wright Auditorium, 285 East walnut, Pasadena, Ca. 818 371 7735
Hip, elegant Virtuosic,5th Stream = Jazz-Fusion Classical. performed by great LA Musicians
Free 6:30-9PM
Come on down and have a ball!
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139 Comments:
We will resume our series on:
Jan. 31 st, 2012
Feb.28
Mar.27th
April 3rd
May 29
June 26th
At the Donald Wright Auditorium 285 East Walnut, 818 371 7735
Suezenne Fordham, Steinway Concert Grand; Nate Light, Contrabass; Rochelle Coatney, Latin and World Percussion; Miles Senzaki,Drums and Percussion; and we all play Tibetan Percussion
JUST DISCOVERED THE STEINWAY MAURICE GAVE ME A FEW YEARS AGO is an "A3"6'4 3/4' Created in 1913!!!!
In perusing information about Steinways, my FAVORITE Piano manufacturer {US made in Astoria LI] last night, I remeasured my second piano.... Turns out it is NOT an "M" but a very rare "A3" and weighs in at 645 pounds.... Due to being made of solid Ebony. I am so proud of my Steinways, and thankful to my Son.
My other Steinway at one time belonged tomy Dear Friend, the great Concert Pianist William Kapell, and upon his untimely tragic death in a commercial airliner crash returning from a stopover in Hawaii after his exhausting tour in Australia... The airliner plowed into a mountainside near Half Moon Bay just a few miles from the San Fransisco Airport....
I wound up with his piano, rather one of his pianos... He had three in his Studio [actually his brownstone home he shared with Mama and Papa Kapell] on east 94th Street... Two were Concert "D"s 8'11" the third and mine is a Concert "B" 6'11"... with very Stiff action. And of course this is my preferred piano BECAUSE of the very stiff action... translating to more powerful hands. Also, as it turns out translating to Dupuytrens syndrome, a thickening of the tendons in the hands, due to extensive practice through the years... Though general MDs will encourage you to have surgery, you will be incapacitated for a year, and will NEVER play again because of the scar tissue in the palms in those tendons. It is treated be a Chirohealer who uses the Graston Tecnic,thus releasing the tangled tendons, rendering my hands very free and excellent tecnic wise. Thank you Dr. David Simmons of Arcadia...
And as you see... my Kapell piano has a excellent companion and almost the same size! I thank Maurice so much for this treasure.
And YES YES YES I practice Piano tecnic every day.. sometimes playing well into the late night. I rotate things.... one day are the Brahms 51 exerscises as chosen for me by my Great Master in NY Robert Goldsand.... He chose perhaps 45 of those 51.... Then I do all scales in DOUBLE Thirds.... the Liszt fingerings.
You see Mr Goldsand Studied with Moritz Rosenthal, who was a favored pupil of Franz Liszt! I am proud of studying with Goldsand, as I have an almost direct lineage to Liszt's approach to tecnic! The next Day, I delve into the Lechetizsky Method, and afterward, several Chopin Etudes,sometimes changing their keys and jazz repertoire and changes. The Third Day will be classical repertoire and things my group will use in concert, plus a return to intense scales in double thirds, and sixths.
From time to time I take a bit of time away from my Steinways...
My whole life has been devoted to music. I am truly blessed to have found what I really loved early in life! Hugs, I hope YOU are so blessed, too, and IN the ARTS! KissKiss
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But our next concert of 2011 is on November 7th, Monday... 6:30 - 9 PM at the Donald Wright Auditorium, 285 E. Walnut in the Historic Pasadena[Ca.] Library... Admission is free, 818 371 7735
Just got a call from Mo, and he asked me to attend a concert tomorrow of the Pasadena symphony[CA] at the Ambassador Auditorium... Of course I said YES.... there is the Korngold Violin Concerto AND the Tschaikowsky 5th Symphony Fantastic, of course I am happy to hear that great music in that great Concert Hall...
When I played Bass Mo and I played in a couple of Orchestras together[ He is a Cellist] and We played in the Garner ted Armstrong Orchestra AND the Symphonny of the Verdugos, many gorgeous concerts there.... and Mo and Lynn now proudly perform with them regularay, AND the Pasadene Pops! So an practicing tonight so I can go with a clear conscience! And Dinner with Myrna Daniels, the editor of the LA Jazz Scene!!!! AND yes she ran the notice of our next concert in the Calendar section! [Our November7th Concert] of the SUEZENNE FORDHAM CHAMBER JAZZ LA "5th Stream" SERIES...as noted in other blogs on this page!!!
Great concert tomorrow invited by Mo and klynn, Korngold Violin Concerto and the Tschaikowsky 5th at the Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena ''' A great and beautiful all WOOD Auritorium! Really stunning!
Today was a fun day.... Trader Joe's new store opening in Monyrose.... ANd then the PETCO to but a sweater for Ursa to wear under her new quilted coat[Layering] She now stsys in the midsection of the house which has NO windows, thanks to the alcoholic Daum, and that part of the house is very cold! CREEP! I despise alcoholics.... My mother killed herself with alcohol... A stunningly beautiful woman drank herself to death, and thrust a lifetime of sorrow on her family for doing this.... I still have endless pain from this.... and now am encumbered with "another booze hound" the only way I survive is to compartmentalise and concentrate on the beautiful thinges in my life... my Son, <my horses my music and my players, and my little Adopted 10 year old Papilion! Oh, but you are surely not intrested in this?
azotedoToday was a perfect Bugger of a day!!! I had wonderful tickets from Maurice to hear a splendid concert at the Ambassador Audutorium AND of course couldnt take my 70 VW Bus which is in the shop, AND my 72 Bug developed a marvelous sudden downshifting of gears yesterday, AND the Red Bugs keys have been missing for three months, AND so to take the final bug HahHah NO it's battery was kaput.... no start... called Lynn to let them know i wouldnt bre there.... she saod go ahead and call AAA.... so they got it started and on my way to the concert the car stopped totally out of gas due to the gauge malfunctioning... so AAA again.... by that time I KNEW this was a sign that I was NOT intended to go to that concert!!! DradX one thousand... AND it was too late to hear the korngold Violin concerto 1 Also couldn't gp tto the Barn to move my horses for the horse show tomorrow, too!!!
Discovered the Concert Dates for Suezenne fordham Chamber JazzLA sre probably incorrect!!! I will check with the venue tomorrow!!! Sorry!!! EEeeekkk!
In the "Great" Department my friend Chromatic Harmonica player Giuseppe Milici of Italy is sending me some promo things including great CDs ! Will keep you informed1 really want to help him arrange some concerts herE!!!
CORRECTED SCHEDULE
Suezenne Fordham Chamber Jazz La
Donald Wright Auditorium
Pasadena Main Library
285 E. Walnut, Pasanena Ca.
818 371 7735 ALL concerts start at 6:30 PM- 9PM
Feb.14th 2012/March 5th/April 3/May 7th/June 11/
Correction Concert Schedule Spring 2012
Feb.14th Tuesday
March 5th Monday
April 3rd Tuesday
May 7th Monday
June 11 Monday
Donald Wright Auditorium 285 East Walnut
6:30 PM
818 371 7735
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Suezenne Fordham I don't envy anyone their success or their money... I chose my lifepath of Music... I've had big success in NY and more humble stuff out here, that didn't lead to riches, but lead to immense joy when I perform, even at my time of life. If I was a CEO I would not have had the time to be a Mom, and I would have awakened to have missed my Son's childhood! He Toured with me and my group, and attended many different schools on the road, and I hauled us back to NY And really dug in with terrific success, playing great Park Avenue places... But my choices were-are mine ... nothing more to say... If you're one of the 1% Great!!! I am happy you can hire wonderful people and pay them nicely... I revel when you are good bosses, and I don't cry because you are richer than I am... I am greatly blessed and I have "Enough".... emotionally
HAVE YOU SEEN NICK ARIONDO'S LATEST ~ WORLD PREMIERE ~ POSTING?
Nick Ariondo, noted accordionist, performs with Placido Domingo and the LA Opera:
http://youtu.be/VoBJvYAYU6U
Fantastic Video!!! Way to go Nick Ariondo!!!
CONDIVIDETE E FATE GIRARE LA REALTA'!
CREDETEMI, VALE LA PENA PERDERE 3 MINUTI PER DARE UNO SGUARDO A QUESTI DOCUMENTI, SE NON FACCIAMO NOI QUALCOSA PER EVITARE QUESTE INGIUSTIZIE I NOSTRI FIGLI NON AVRANNO PANE! ... Pietro Oreste Malvisi, Dana's paPAH!!! The problem is global!!! [even in Italia]
A totally gorgeous Day in Southern California!!! AND Maurice and Lynn invited me to lunch at shimsheri in Glendale! Perfectly fantastic Salad, Pita raw onion,Lamb Kebabs, rice with saffron,broiled tomato-onion-green pepper, and water with Lemon!!! It was great and we were able to actually eat outside it was so warm with golden sun!.... then I did some shopping at Costco, and did Barn Chores... Am very happy with KDs progress on the new addition of food, and Thank you Anne for your mentoring! And the starchless formula!!!
INTERESTING POST FB BY SLYNEY TEETERS:
GITMO..Obama decries Bush and says "I will close GITMO in 12 months"...LIAR
IRAQ..Obama said the Surge FAILED and the US was defeated but now he takes credit..LIAR
FOX NEWS..Obama said “Fox is not real news.”..NOW they sit in the front row at the WH..LIAR
Great Depression..Obama TOLD us that HE averted the next great depression but NOW his administration is telling us they didn't know how bad the economy was..LIARS
Unemployment..Obama said we would go no higher than 8% if we pass his stimulus...LIAR
Warrantless Wiretaps..Obama cried about Bush using them but he does now..LIAR
GULF Seafood..Obama declared "the seafood from the Gulf is fine to eat"...LIAR
GREEN JOBS...Obama said HE would CREATE 5 million green jobs...LIAR
National Debt..Obama said "I will not add 1 DIME to the debt..he's added 3 Trillion...LIAR
PAY/GO...After demanding Pay/Go Obama passes the unemployment bill unfunded..LIAR
Healthcare Negotiations..Obama said "they'll be on CSPAN so everyone can watch"..LIAR
Transparency..Obama claimed "I will not sign a bill until it is POSTED for 72 Hrs....LIAR
GULF COAST..Obama tells us to go to the Gulf for vacation while he takes his family to Maine..LIAR
IRAN..Obama said "I will meet Ahmadinejad one on one"..he just called your bluff Obama...LIAR
GULF OIL Leak..Obama took 4 vacations while telling us "he would not rest "....LIAR
OBAMA ACTS of STUPIDITY..
Border Security…Obama is fighting against a state trying to protect the US border...FAILURE
Terrorist Rights..Obama’s first act as president was to give them more rights…FAILURE
Prosecution of 9-11 terrorists...Obama wants them tried at Ground Zero...FAILURE
GM..Obama declared "I will not let GM go into bankruptcy", so Obama gives them 40 Billion, 45 days later GM files for bankruptcy.....FAILURE
BEER Summit..Calls a WHITE cop a racist then tries to have beer with him...FAILURE
Russian Spy Exchange..Russia gets 6 the US gets 2….FAILURE
Telepromtor with 1st Graders…Obama stood in their classroom telepromtor in hand…FAILURE
BP OIL RIG...Obama gives the rig a SAFETY AWARD just days before it blew up...FAILURE
Summer Jobs Tour..Obama and Biden are celebrating all the new jobs created....FAILURE
Illegal Immigration…Obama wants the 12 million law breakers to be citizens…FAILURE
NYC Mosque at Ground Zero..Obama isn’t trying to stop it he’s helping get it done..FAILURE
40 Bill Mortgage Plan..Obama claimed "this will keep people in their homes"..FAILURE
EGYPT Speech...Obama declares "the US is really a Muslim Country"...FAILURE
Flying Air Force 1 over NYC…Obama wanted new pictures of his plane…FAILURE
Tennessee FLOOD Response..Obama did absolutely nothing...FAILURE
1 Trillion Dollar Government Jobs Bailout (Stimulus) that create no private jobs…FAILURE
27 Billion Dollar follow on Government Jobs Bailout (happening now)….FAILURE
OBAMA WORLD STAGE FAILURES
Olympics 2016...Obama goes to Copenhagen and gets the US out in the 1st round...FAILURE
Afghanistan..TOP US General RESIGNS over Obama's plan for US DEFEAT...FAILURE
G20 Summit..Obama tells them to keep spending money, they say NO...FAILURE
South America ...Obama sits like a COWARD as Chavez hands him his book to read..FAILURE
Mexico Border…Obama sends a 1/3 of the troops Bush sent while not even visiting…FAILURE
Haiti Response..Obama gave it 2 days never to be heard of again…FAILURE
Iranian Uprising...Obama sits on HIS HANDS while people die in the streets..FAILURE
North Korea..Obama hides while he sends Hillary to handle the situation…FAILURE
Global Climate Change Consensus…Obama led but nobody followed…FAILURE
Bowing to 3rd World Leaders…Obama goes to his knees every chance he gets…FAILURE
C
In memorium for the anniversary of the Holovost! Requiescat in Pacem for all the victims light a votive~
Can't sleep!!! Worried sick about my adopted little 10 year old Papillion, who has been constipated for a couple days, Thought he was clogged needing a haircut.... but he still cannot Pooh! It is so sad , he eighs only 5 pounds! And the vet wont be in til tomorrow morning, and emergency rooms are expensive and they dont really do anything anyway, but wait for you to pick them up to take to the regular vet! ...
OK, it was THE thing to do to take Little Piccolino to the vet this Morning... The Genteel, knowledgable and kind Dr. Schwartz diagnosed him with an abcess on one pf his Anal Glands OWIE!! I left him at the Vet's and went with Nancy Roth, Lynn and Maurice for a great tea at Chado's next to the Japanese American Museum.... In short, the company was fab, as was the teahouse itself, but the foor was great, the tea was great ONCE it arrived... a full hour later... the service was the pits, really.... rating Ambience/5;food 4; service-10! ///
By the way today was the most beautiful Day of California weather!!! The realson people come here to vacation and to live!!! BTW if you are coming to live here DON'T! Move to one os the smaller communities such as Burbank, Pasadena, Arcadia, Etc! The LA government is fraught with corruption and outrageous taxes, as is the state of California!!! AND the rough winds really suck, too as does the occasional earthquake!!!
Happy to tell fans of Bassist Charlie domingo that he will be performing with SFCJLA at our next concert on the 14 Feb [look at our above schedule ] Nate Light is still at this point in the group, but cannot give up his Tuesday gig to be with me, so it is Charlie... A gresat bassist too!
Horrendous night of really BAD Santa Ana winds ! Gusting to 85 MPH! Ick... It's so bad I am afraid to go out to the Kennel to feed Old Ursa! Afraid I'll be hit with something!!! And I don't have one of my Riding helmets from the barn!!! There is a continuous howl!!! BTW tomorrow is D's 64th!!! Really sad the havoc booze wreaks on the people surrounding an alcoholic! Disgusting!
SANTA ANA WINDS FINALLY DIE DOWN in Turkeyville
Finally Finally finally the "Devil Winds" died down t 6:45 AM PSsssssT !!! OMG what a drag all night Soaring winds of up to 80MPH!!! Then it was really wierd.... from about 4:30 AM it started to calm down as if some great being was turning down the volume of winds in increments Loke turning down a radio dial!!! It is relatively calm at 7:07 and is safe to go into the driveway to get things from the car, AND safe to feed the Elder Dog, ChowX "Urse Major and Sometimes Minor" So she had a great breakfast of warmed Trader Joe's dogfood, with big tablets of Glucosomine and Chondriotn-MSM, And, of course her daily Pet Tabs,,,,, [and for unbelievers, yes they work!!! Do now at 7 something I also have walked little Piccolino, given his little Royal sSelf his meds and nice pats and smoothtalk, and I will hit the hay for a few hours, before going to the Barn to do THOSE chores!! And not forget to take my shoe polish in case I go to the little new French Bakery for a "RedEye" And a special treat for the Alchie!!! [Like rehab?
Slynay Teeters;
Rich = Investor
Investor = Employer
Employer = Jobs
THEREFORE
Taxing Rich = Taxing Jobs
Taxing Jobs = Fewer Jobs
Fewer Jobs = Recession Q.E.D
...change the word "Rich" with "Employer" and Obamanomics sounds like a FAIL.
See the Military training with Police "for near future urban warfare" [Channel 9 LA.Ca.
http://patdollard.com/2012/01/election-2012-military-begins-training-for-domestic-urban-warfare-anticipated-in-the-near-future/
~~~LOS ANGELES TV(CBS) — The Los Angeles Police Department teamed with military special operation forces Wednesday evening to conduct multi-agency tactical exercises in the skies above downtown LA.
Many questioned what was going on Wednesday night as a Black Hawk helicopter and four OH-6 choppers – or “Little Birds” – flew over the city, at one point hovering just above the US Bank building downtown and later flying low over the Staples Center as the Lakers played inside.
Someone could be seen sitting inside an open chopper with his legs hanging off the side.
Sky9 spotted the Black Hawk in the dark, making what appeared to be a drop off at a park before quickly ascending back into the air.
Throughout the exercise, the five rotorcrafts were staged at Dodgers Stadium.
The LAPD said the purpose of the training was in part to ensure the military’s ability to operate in urban environments.
Military trains in LA with LA police for a mission in the near future Channel 9 TV! Possibly unrest in the 2012 elections
Chief Warrant Officer David Duran was a U.S. Army aviator for 12 years. He now flies Blackhawk helicopters for the National Guard in California. Duran says what KCAL9 saw Wednesday night could be a dry run for a future mission.
“They do a lot of mockup training,” said Duran. “But it’s always best to get the closest terrain layout to what the objective is.”
Duran said the military chooses training environments based on what they might be facing in the near future.
“If it’s a mountainous terrain, they go to the mountains; if it’s a desert terrain, they use the desert; if they’re in a coastal terrain, they use the coast,” said Duran. “If it’s an urban terrain, you know, whatever’s needed.”
In a release Monday, the LAPD said training exercises would take place at various sites around the greater Los Angeles area through Thursday. The exercises were coordinated with local authorities and owners of the training sites, according to the release.
Many wondered Thursday night about the safety of such drastic maneuvers being conducted over an urban area.
The LAPD said safety precautions were taken to prevent risk to the general public, as well as the military personnel involved.
Similar exercises have been seen in Miami and Boston.
The Burning Platform:
Rob Richardson of Off Grid Survival shares our sentiment. Something just doesn’t feel right:
Maybe it’s just the prepper in me, but when I heard the U.S. Military will be conducting a massive training exercise in the streets of Los Angeles I must say it made me feel a little uneasy. And how could it not?
With the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act, which gives the President the power to arrest and detain American Citizens, it makes one wonder why the military is conducting drills in Urban America.
This Thursday the military will be conducting a joint exercise in the streets of Downtown Los Angeles. The joint exercise will have the Los Angeles Police Department providing situational support and will take place at multiple simulated training locations throughout Los Angeles.
We could always chalk this off to standard military training, but we suggest that these soldiers are being trained to deal specifically with scenarios recently outlined by the Pentagon, including civil unrest right here in the good old USA.
Tonight is better!!!Piccolino is better, and the Devil Winds are calm tonight! fine will be able to sleep, except the George Noory show is discussing illegal imprisonments! [ the new law that allows you to be arrested and put away forever without just cause!!! Oh well, let them duke it out, no one gives a hoot what I think anyway! Bill of rights out the window!
Julian Lennon;
"I don't forgive people because I'm weak. I forgive them, because I'm strong enough to understand that people make mistakes..."
Actually went to a super [ Not so super] markrt for corn tortillas to do a batch of really spicy home Tortilla Chips!!! Will do a corn chowder later... Looking intensely for "Organic" free of "Bud Nippers" the poison painted onto potatos to kill the buds so we can't use the cut up potatos to grow new ones...{Thank you monsanto the clorious inventors of "Round Up"]
Trouble with the Super market is... can I trust it to really be organic? Heck.... I give up ... out again to putz along in my VW Beetle going to Whole Foods.... I trust them!!! AND they have Locally grown stuff!!!! " Duh, We are what we eat!
NOW THIS is SOMETHING to be SCARED SHI@LESS ABOUT!!!
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WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted Tuesday to keep a controversial provision to let the military detain terrorism suspects on U.S. soil and hold them indefinitely without trial -- prompting White House officials to reissue a veto threat.
The measure, part of the massive National Defense Authorization Act, was also opposed by civil libertarians on the left and right. But 16 Democrats and an independent joined with Republicans to defeat an amendment by Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) that would have killed the provision, voting it down with 61 against, and 37 for it.
"I'm very, very, concerned about having U.S. citizens sent to Guantanamo Bay for indefinite detention," said Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), one of the Senate's most conservative members.
Paul's top complaint is that a terrorism suspect would get just one hearing where the military could assert that the person is a suspected terrorist -- and then they could be locked up for life, without ever formally being charged. The only safety valve is a waiver from the secretary of defense.
"It's not enough just to be alleged to be a terrorist," Paul said, echoing the views of the American Civil Liberties Union. "That's part of what due process is -- deciding, are you a terrorist? I think it's important that we not allow U.S. citizens to be taken."
Democrats who were also concerned about liberties compared the military policing of Americans to the detention of Americans in internment camps during World War II.
"Congress is essentially authorizing the indefinite imprisonment of American citizens, without charge," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who offered another amendment -- which has not yet gotten a vote -- that she said would correct the problem. "We are not a nation that locks up its citizens without charge."
Backers of military detention of Americans -- a measure crafted by Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) -- came out swinging against Udall's amendment on the Senate floor earlier Tuesday.
"The enemy is all over the world. Here at home. And when people take up arms against the United States and [are] captured within the United States, why should we not be able to use our military and intelligence community to question that person as to what they know about enemy activity?" Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said.
"They should not be read their Miranda Rights. They should not be given a lawyer," Graham said. "They should be held humanely in military custody and interrogated about why they joined al Qaeda and what they were going to do to all of us."
In criticizing the measure, White House officials said that it would cause confusion and interfere with
Please locate this article and read it in it's entirity The Senate voyed FOR this 93 to 7!!! So it got passed with bipartisan votes NOW wanna bet these guys did NOT read the thing?
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Suezenne Fordham Erin have you heard about "Bud Noper" which is a poison [from Monsanto] thet put on potato eyes to keep them from budding in the market.... That poison gradually goes throughout the whole potato. And of course we cannot cut up a potato and plant the eyes to grow food.... Organic Potatos dont have this poison put on their producys... Also "Round Up is another deadly product!!! Its used extensively by big agra, and is poisoning the rivers waterways, ponds, lakes !!! BARF
Suezenne Fordham@@@
They want to control our food!!! Think of the people starving in Venezuela! And they really want to outlaw Farmers Markets and Organic food, as those foods can produce viable seeds Which can be grown just as organic potato eyes can produce plants with viable potatos!!! If you buy seed in a nursery, they are programmed to only produce one scant crop, the seeds from those plants will NOT reproduce [ the seeds of the first planting
To be delivered to: President Barack Obama
President Obama, I oppose your appointment of Michael Taylor, a former VP and Lobbyist for Monsanto, the widely criticized Genetically Modified (GM) food multinational, as Senior Advisor to the Commissioner at the FDA. Taylor is the same person who was Food Safety Czar at the FDA when Genetically Modified Organisms were allowed into the US food supply without undergoing a single test to determine their safety or risks. This is a travesty. Taylor was in charge of policy for Monsanto's now-discredited GM Bovine Growth Hormone (rGBH) which is directly linked to cancer and opposed by many medical and hospital organizations. It was Michael Taylor who pursued a policy that milk from rGBH-treated cows should not be labeled with disclosures. Michael Taylor and Monsanto do not belong in our government.
President Obama, Monsanto has been seen as a foe to family-based agriculture, the backbone of America, by introducing dangerous changes to plants and animals and by using strong-arm legal tactics against farmers for decades. Naturally occurring plant and animal species are permanently threatened by the introduction of DNA and hormonal modification, Monsanto's core businesses.
FDA scientists once regarded Genetic Modification of the food supply as the single most radical and potentially dangerous threat to public health in history. As early as the 1991-2, a body of scientific research began to form which now includes articles in over 600 journals. As a whole, these offer scientific evidence that GM foods are the root cause for the increase of many serious diseases in the US. Since GM foods were introduced, diagnosis of multiple chronic illnesses in the US has skyrocketed. These illnesses include changes in major organs, hormonal, immune, digestive, and reproductive systems. Certain cancers are linked with GM consumption.
Experts are discouraged that regulators and GM companies systematically overlook potential side effects of GM. Monsanto's objective to use bio-technology to change the world's food supply is the opposite policy direction your administration should pursue. Your legacy of supporting Monsanto to have free rein in US food policy is a nightmare scenario that is against the interest of all Americans and world citizens.
THOUGHTS FOR A MILITARY DOG
More than a thought.... "Thanks for you as a loving brave species and devoted companion to those you love, and thank you for laying down your very life when ordered to dearch a mined area, or taking the bullets, so it is safer for your Soldier, so that he may defend our freedom... you lay down your life... you are everything the word Dog represents, and we know that'Dog' apelled backwards is God"Yes, you are in my prayers and thoughts, too.... Godspeed, and I also pray your human will bring you back to the USA with him so you may enjoy a Forever Home and beautiful sun filled walks and romps with your human. And when he chooses a wife, that she too will love accept and treasure you, because without you, your human may not be returning from the war, God Bless you both, and a government that makes it possible for you to return to the USA with your beloved human..."
Giuseppe Milici*
si è smarrito un cagnolino..... è un cavalier King di 10 mesi NR. MICROCIP 380260010041463, data scomparsa 27.01.201 Se avete notizie per favore contattate i seguenti numeri 339/7001091 - 337/1023188 - 338/7001426
per quanto potete fare Alba e Giuseppe vi ringraziano
King Chaeles Spaniel stolen in Italy! Please send this to all your friends in Italy, and maybe this beautiful puppy will be returned to his rightful, bereaved owners! PLEASE HELP!!! Giuseppe, our hearts break for you!!!
suezenne
Cool stuff from Ron Carter from NY Great Jazz Trio;
http://www.jazzonthetube.com/videos/ron-carter/ny-slick.html#.Tyd-qN8hLRc.email
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Just got an invitation to join Michelle OBama for lunch in Burbank, Ca. for $35,800.00..... Oh sure, and yes I am still laughing!!! With the unemployment rate in Southern California at 17%...
Productive day!! Practice.... then the schlep to the Dental for my 3 month Dental cleaning.... Great fun visiting with the hygenist ... Then to the feed store to get the new "Low Starch " Horse feed and shreaded Beet Pulp... and an en route call from my mentor with KD, telling me FD has her new warm coat in her perfect size... Will transfer the foods to their containers tomorrow.... an't get to the "Chirohealer" Dr. Simmons till a week from thursday... Will try and get rid of the tendon congestion... Doing very strenuous Brahms and Leschetizsky workouts... Concert coming uo soon!!! And tonight I have to get out the publicity... And my favorite Print Shop folded!!!! Drag....
BTW after the Dental appt ... I thought I would have a bite at "Frankies" a little Italian restaurant near the dentist! It was really AWFUL!!! The roll arrived when I was almost finished and it was almoat raw, AND doughy, and the salad instead of being "Mixed greens, and it was icky chopped crud! The "RedEye [ espresso with a splash of black coffee was really wimpy aand I could have had three of those at Starbucks or Farfalla's Trattoria just a few blocks from there... So if you're in Tarzana... Skip Frankies and go to Farfalla's It is delightful! Oh, and the help was very rude!
Oh, and there was a cacophony of music!!!! In the dining room there was pleasant nothing music, and blasting from the kitchen was Ranchero music blasting out of the kitcken Really disgusting!
Lobo Fino, German Shepherd
Love this dog.... GSs are incredible dogs!!! One was abandoned at the Barn, and I caught him by hiding my belt and going into the arena where he was and falling down on my back crying boo hoo, and when he came over to see whar happened, I slipped the belt around his neck and he was MINE!!! A few hours later, he was bleeding from the eyes, ears, rectum penis, he had been poisoned by the squirrels he had caught in the paek... Animal vector control poisons squirrels with rat poison!!! a Week later and $1200 my vet saved his dear life... "Lobo Fino" was his name... still pine for his magnificent self!
Stock tip!!!!!
Stock tip: Facebook is going public tomorrow... The stock I hear will be selling somewhere in the $30 area...Good luck, suezenne
TUNNING NEWS!!! fro John Boener!
from John Boehner
Tonight, the House voted to freeze the pay of federal bureaucrats and Members of Congress. This legislation, sponsored by my friend Rep. Sean Duffy, will save struggling taxpayers $26 billion without impacting military personnel or their families.
@@@ HAPPY BIRTHDAY, STAN GETZ!!!
Stanley Gayetzky was born on February 2, 1927 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and grew up in the Bronx in New York City. Stan’s parents were Ukrainian Jews emigrating in 1903 and Stan grew up relatively poor. His mother pushed him to work his hardest and he had an interest in all instruments from an early age in addition to being at the top of the class. Getz received an alto saxophone from his father at the age of thirteen and by the time he was fifteen was hired to play professionally with Jack Teagarden’s band in 1943. Before Stan was even twenty he had played with Teagarden, Nat King Cole, Lionel Hampton, Stan Kenton, Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Goodman and Woody Herman. Getz had a hit in 1950 with Woody Herman’s band and his solo on ‘Early Autumn’ made him a star.
In 1953 the Dizzy Gillespie/Stan Getz Quartet was formed with Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown and Max Roach. In the late 1950s Stan ventured into cool jazz playing with Horace Silver, Johnny Smith, Oscar Peterson and others in Scandinavia. Getz returned to America and began introducing bossa nova jazz to the country. Stan recorded ‘Jazz Samba’ in 1962 and won a Grammy for Best Jazz Performance the following year for the tune Desafinado. Getz then recorded the album ‘Getz/Gilberto’ with Tom Jobin, Joao Gilberto and his wife Astrud Gilberto. The album won two Grammys for Best Album and Best Single beating out the Beatles’ ‘A Hard Days Night’. In the 1970s Getz entered the fusion movement and recorded with Chick Corea, Tony Williams and Stanley Clarke. Without Getz this band would go on to become Return To Forever. Getz returned to bossa nova and straight ahead jazz and would continue through that medium till the end.
In the 1980s, in addition to performing with the likes of Kenny Baron and touring India, Australia and Europe, Stan taught at Stanford University where he served as Artist in Residence. In 1986 Getz was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame. Getz recorded his last album in Copenhagen in February of 1991 entitled ‘People Time’ and passed away in June of that year at age sixty four. Stan Getz leaves a legacy as one of the greatest jazz musicians ever as his nickname would suggest, known simply as ‘The Sound’. Getz has received many honors and tributes and continues to influence future generations of musicians.
“A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.”
“Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice.”
“We made records to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records. I still feel that way. I put out a record because I think it's beautiful, not necessarily commercial.”
"It's like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn the sentences, which are the chords, and then you talk extemporaneously with the horn. It's a wonderful thing to be able to speak extemporaneously, which is something I've never gotten the hang of. But musically, I love to talk off the top of my head. And that's what jazz music is all about." – Stan Getz
ONLINE description of my Band:
UPCOMING CONCERT FEB.14 2012
Donald Wright Auditorium
285 east Walnut. Pasadena, Ca.
818 371 7735
Brilliant, elegant Jazz Quartet,hip fusion of Jazz/Classical Fifth stream improvisation spiced with some great standards for Valentines Day. Bring your main squeeze and dig us!!!
Suezenne Fordham, Steinway;
Charlie Domingo, Contrabass, Rochelle Coatney, World Drums
Mike Senzaki, Drums.
Strange day.... Piccolino to Dr Schwartz for checkup after his op. last week... he is "doing well" He kept trying to form words from little growls.... He had fun at the Barn widdling on his "Oracle Tree" I took care of my Barn chores and took him home so I could go out to do shopping, as cannot leave him in the car.... So I went to Albertsons and Tj's and looked for the Italian restaurant Fratellis in Montrose... i was going to have dinner there , but couldn't find it... so scooted on home to tend to practicing, FB, Piccolino eating and listening now to George Noory on KFI ! Interesting things... Resolved not to eat hamburger upon hearing about the "Pink Slime" made from cow feces and chemicals.... My God big agra!!! WTF is going on!!!
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Suezenne Fordham;
I LOVE the Marines from when I was a little girl and the US was facing WWII OMG were we scared as a Nation, and they played hitler's horrifying speeches [ in german] and the way he shouted and threatened. on radioo, then to see him on the news in the movie theaters as we were going to see Jane Withers or Andy Rooney!!! Then to read the astounding bravery as the war heated up! And as kids saving and collecting scrap metal, even peeling the metal off of cigarette wrapers from our parents!!! Brave Brave Men And so were all our military.... So ARE all our Brave Millitary to give everything for our freedom! Thany you!
Los Angeles Times
The New York Giants have won the Super Bowl, beating the New England Patriots with a score of 21-17. Story to come.
Actually I love New England, too... Lived in NY many years, and always Hiked with Maurice and daumants on Weekends on thr Appalagian Trali!!! Piecemeal.... All through Maryland, Delaware,New Jersey, New York state,Connecticut,Massachusetts!!!! OMG It was a great trail.... very well marked and no axe murderers!!! But everyone who we passed said hello in really polite manners!!! Really a beautiful respite from my fantastic job on PArk Avenue at the Doral Hotel as a self accompanying Chanteuse!
How Cool is That?
THE LUNCH FROM HELL, Fratelli's, Montrose, CA. - 10 stars
Lunch was: TV Blasting/Stereo playing old Crooner songs/ Mexican music blaring from the kitchen/Waiyress lied about the cost of my entree She said it was 10.50, It was 19.50 when the bill came/// Didnt bring breat til I was about to leave and NO Butter/ No water? they only had decaf coffee and espresso///Waitress called me "fancy" when I asked for a "Doppio Espresso"/// Soup was lukewarm and disgusting///
I really felt ripped off, and it was a totally disgusting experience. Fratelli's 2602 Verdugo Blvd, Montrose, Ca. AND the paper napkins were thin and reeked of bugspray...Damn, It is not often I get to relax... It was a ghastly experience AND the waitresses were trying to make out with two old faerts who were "regulars!!! BARF.... Rating -10 stars
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ONLINE description of my Band:
UPCOMING CONCERT FEB.14 2012
Donald Wright Auditorium
285 east Walnut. Pasadena, Ca.
818 371 7735
6:30 PM- 9:PM
Brilliant, elegant Jazz Quartet,hip fusion of Jazz/Classical Fifth stream improvisation spiced with some great standards for Valentines Day. Bring your main squeeze and dig us!!!
Suezenne Fordham, Steinway "D";
Charlie Domingo, Contrabass, Rochelle Coatney, World Drums
Mike Senzaki, Drums.
RUE STORY; Seeing Billies Carnegie Hall Concert Poster reminded me of this!!!
I was aat Billie's last concert She was going to have this concert after rehab.... I was with her and my Prress Agent Roz Mincer from Mike hall's Office. WE sat and sat and Billie didnt come onstage, her band was waiting, and still no Billie Finally the conductor , Val Greene, trombonist went backatage... Roz shot out of her seat to go backstage, and then Val kead Billie onstage.... Billie was obviously shot up with drugs, staggered to the microphone, the Band played the intro and Billie couldnt remember the words to the tune, OR the tune Roz went onstage, took Billie by the arm, led her off... that was the end.... they had to refund the entire audience's ticket money!!! A pusher had gotten to her and turned her on.... she was taken to the hospital, where she died of an overdose IN the hospital a couple of weeks later ... True story, I was there!!!
To McGuffee Kathey
Is it March? I have a Chamber Jazz concert in March.... the flyers are in the car, and I don't go outside of the yard after dark because of the 'Yoyes, cougars,and a neighbor'sfree running Pit Bull!!!Owls aren't too cool either... Rescued one from the roadway a few years back.... Great Horned OWL... And drove home one armed .... When I got here I couldn't rouse Mo to locate a cage.... finally found the Great dane Crate, put the owl in, and then rigged a perch for him! Next Morning he totally recovered !!!! OMG his claws and Beak were FEARSOME!!And he never closed his eyes!!!
Robert Thies>
Alexis Weissenberg in an interview had this to say about his unemotional stage demeanor: “You cannot lose your control physically and be precise as to what your hands do. Can you imagine a surgeon operating on somebody, and swooning and looking up at the ceiling and being very excited about it? The patient would die. That is what happens in music too. The patient dies, because there’s too much going on besides the actual performance.” Perhaps that explain why I can't watch (or listen to) Lang Lang, Olli Mustonen, or Andre Watts.
Suezenne Fordham
I HATE to be forced to watch LL! the Steinway Company invited me to a private concert of LL a couple years ago... Politically i really HAD to go, but when there I could not watch his gyraations[ remembering my illustrious Steinway Artist friends and teachers in NY] I just kept my earplugs in and my eyes cast down... Oh yeah... and they served store bought cookies and pepsi cola[loaded with high fructose corn syrup]n and potato chips, totally appropriat efor the "artiste"Barf!!! And later that day, he packed the Hollywood Bowl with 13,000 + hapless souls!
Cole Oorter... "Miss Otis regrets
Cole Porter
Miss Otis Regrets
Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch today, Madam.
Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch today.
She is sorry to be delayed,
But last evening down in Lover's Lane she strayed.
Madam.
Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch today.
When she woke up and found, that her dream of love was gone.
Madam.
She ran to the man who had lead her so far astray.
And from under a velvet gown,
She drew a gun and shot her lover down,
Madam.
Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch today.
When the mob came and got her and dragged her from the jail,
Madam,
They strung her from the old willow cross the way.
And the moment before she died,
She lifted up her lovely head and cried,
Madam.
Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch today.
Miss Otis regrets... she's unable to
Another Chanteuse' favorite is "Geuss Who I Saw"
lisse Boyd / Murray Grand) June Carroll (Broadway Production) - 1952 Eydie Gorme - 1957 Nancy Wilson - 1960 Chris Connor - 1960 Carmen McRae - 1963 Toni Tennille - 1988 Grady Tate - 1991 Holly Shelton - 1991 Loretta Holloway - 1996 Stephen Patric - 1998 Karyn Malone - 2000 Janis Siegel - 2001 Donna McKechnie - 2002 Also recorded by: Rita Moreno; Lezlie Anders; Laura Fygi; Rene Goodwin; Lena Ericsson; Gus Mancuso; Jim Roseveare; Jan Harrison; Michael Coppola: ............. and others.
You're so late getting home from the office Did you miss your train? Were you caught in the rain? No, don't bother to explain Can I fix you a quick martini? As a matter of fact I'll have one with you For to tell you the truth I've had quite a day too Guess who I saw today, my dear? I went in town to shop around for something new And thought I'd stop and have a bite When I was through I looked around for someplace near And it occurred to me where I had parked the car There was a most attractive French cafe and bar It really wasn't very far The waiter showed me to a dark, secluded corner And as my eyes became accustomed to the gloom I saw two people at the bar who were so in love That even I could spot it clear across the room Guess who I saw today, my dear? I've never been so shocked before I headed blindly for the door They didn't see me passing through Guess who I saw today? Guess who I saw today? Guess who I saw today? I saw you!
A Lot can be done with this song!!!
Dear Suezenne,
As you may remember, a few weeks ago pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk hired Food Network star Paula Deen to be their spokesperson. She’s promoting Victoza, their daily injectable drug marketed to help improve blood sugar levels in adults with diabetes. There’s so much wrong with this picture that it’s hard to know where to begin.
Deen actually developed type 2 diabetes three years ago, but she kept it under wraps as she continued to show viewers how to cook dishes swimming in butter and cream. Her deep fryer is her “kitchen essential” and few, if any, of her dishes should be eaten by someone with diabetes—or anyone for that matter.
As I mentioned on my blog, this is a new low even for Big Pharma. By using Deen as their spokesperson for their diabetes drug, Novo Nordisk is sending the message that you can eat as much junk as you want and then “fix” your health problems with a drug. While I addressed this a bit in my blog, the issue is so critical that I want to equip you with all the facts.
Drugs don’t cure diabetes, and can make the condition worse—far worse!
The first thing most doctors do when a patient develops high blood sugar is to whip out their prescription pad and write a prescription for a hypoglycemic (blood glucose-lowering) agent. But while these drugs may temporarily lower blood sugar, they do nothing to address the underlying condition.
The other mistake many doctors make is treating obese type 2 diabetes patients with insulin. Insulin is a lifesaver for people with type 1 diabetes who can’t produce insulin naturally. But when given to obese individuals with type 2 diabetes, insulin actually makes matters worse—by causing more weight gain, which makes it even harder to manage blood sugar.
Type 2 diabetes occurs when your body’s cells become resistant to insulin—usually as a result of being overweight. Type 2 diabetes is not an insulin deficiency. In folks with type 2 diabetes, the pancreas is actually already working overtime, producing two or three times the amount of insulin normally needed, but their cells are unable to use it. Since insulin is a fat-storage hormone, throwing more insulin into the mix only causes additional weight gain, which makes insulin resistance worse and blood sugar control virtually impossible.
This vicious cycle is so predictable that when I talk to heavy diabetics who are on insulin, I don’t ask them if they’ve gained weight—I ask them how much they’ve gained.
Here’s a far better way to treat—and reverse—type 2 diabetes
DR< Whittaker, con't—their type 2 diabetes. Here’s our four-step approach to treating diabetes:
1. We stop all oral diabetes drugs and insulin for obese individuals—practically the second a patient walks in the door. Instead, we put our patients on a program called the Mini-Fast with Exercise. Rather than ballooning up like the Michelin Man—which is the inevitable fate of insulin-treated type 2 diabetics—our patients universally lose weight. We’ve had men and women arrive at our doors carrying up to 100 pounds of insulin-induced excess weight, only to watch it melt away when the insulin was replaced with a natural program to control both their weight and blood sugar.
2. We give our patients supplements to help lower their blood sugar, including: chromium (200 mcg), vanadyl sulfate (100 mg), Gymnema sylvestre (400 mg), and purslane extract (180 mg).
Plus, there’s a new up-and-comer I’m very excited about called berberine that has been found to lower blood sugar as well as metformin (Glucophage), the world’s most popular diabetes drug. The suggested dose is 500 mg three times a day. Berberine is sold in health food stores and online, or it can be ordered by calling (800) 810-6655. I’m also working on an additional source for a berberine supplement of my own, so stay tuned.
3. Every table in our dining room is equipped with apple cider vinegar. When taken with or just before meals, vinegar inhibits the enzymes necessary for the digestion of starches and other complex carbohydrates, thus preventing them from being broken down into glucose and absorbed into the bloodstream. Take a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar with lunch and dinner.
Because vinegar is quite acidic, it should always be diluted. Add a little olive oil and seasonings and use it as a salad dressing. Or mix it in water, along with a healthy sweetener like xylitol or stevia—which dramatically improves the taste—and sip it slowly.
4. It’s also critical to replenish the nutrients that are flushed out of the body when you’re in a diabetic state. This is particularly true of the water-soluble vitamins like vitamin C and the B vitamins, which, coincidentally, are some of the same ones that diabetes drugs are notorious for depleting. That’s why every patient who walks through the clinic door is put on my Forward Plus Daily Regimen® multi-nutrient formula.
This approach to treating diabetes isn’t an overnight cure, and it doesn’t come with a celebrity spokesperson. It takes time and requires effort. But I can tell you from decades of helping thousands of patients that it works.
I remember one patient we had who came to the clinic with an alarmingly high blood sugar level of 525 (normal is less than 100)—but after following this plan for 6 months she was considered a non-diabetic. I don’t know of a single diabetes medication that can claim results like that.
To your health,
Dr. Whitaker
Julian Whitaker, MD
P.S. Recent research indicates that cognitive decline starts earlier than you may think—check out the March issue of Health & Healing for some new and proven methods to help prevent and reverse memory loss. If you’re not a subscriber, you can sign up by clicking here.
For the serious "Blues"
Best stuff for depression is to begin with: A HUGE shot[from your med dr] of Stress Vitamin B complex then daily a cpiple caps AM PM of B Stress Vitamins... it takes about a month to kick in so be patient and tell your M
Med Dr.
I used to suffer panic attacks then my meddoc found out I was diabetic, then when I brought my #####s under control, my panic attacks went away.... so they really were brought on my High Glucose !
Good reh today with Charlie domingo... he assured me that he has been doing a LOT of contrabass playing using BOW.... And the rehersal was about as inspiring as watching grass grow... I'm sure it will be better in performance... And I threw a bunch of vrty challenging stuff Like "Oblivion" of Astor Piazzolla!
It's really tough being a band leader !!! aND i WAS STRESSED OUT TODAY,,, WHAT ELSE IS NEW.... THEN AFTER REHERSAL, CHORES AT THE BARN Then to the little French bakery to get CHILI, it was very spicy and great for a chily evening served with a bit of French Baguette... and my usual Doppio Esepresso! OK, then home to practice more, memorising the Piazzolla, and some improvising on one of my Chromatic Harmonicas! Hohner, German made! Lots of nice things on FB from McGuffee Cathey! Now to see if I can nail Oblivion on Chr. Harmonica! Hahah love learning new things!!! have temporarily put aside the Concertina as I am hung now on Steinwayys AND chromatic Harmonicas!!!
Reply to Julian Lennon on Whitney's death:
Suezenne Fordham
"Right, Julian but she chose her own death, I live with a self destruct alcoholic, and they choose their own paths to destruction! leaving piles of heart rubble in their wake.... "
Jes' trudgin' along singin' a song, side by side" sinsin' to Piccolino, Nudgie Nudgie!
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Never dismiss that voice that says something isn't right. Listen to the inner fortune teller inside you ... what's the message? Greatly appreciated
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alter: tuaitieThese stupid 2 word things really suck!!! Trying to share my life and this stops me!!!
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Very quiet tonight!!! No 'Yotes yet... Thank God!!! Great meal of cod soup more os a broth included Zucchini, fresh peas, carrots, sauteed onion/a tad of celery , and a bunch of fresh parsley!!! Like that.... ad a few whole grain crackers and a bit of "Pub Cheese" from TJ's
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What a beautiful Day in LA!!! OMG And a really great session at the "Y" for Meditation ... It was really relaxing anf I think it will be beneficial to join a group of meditators who meditate in the hills above the LA River... actually not.... somehow that's not what I have time to do.... but I do have time to learn .... So much to do! Horses are fine and rode L Suenita.... If ONLY she really liked other horses! Have to do the rest of the Brahms 51 .... bye for now!!!!
Drag putting those red ribbons in her mane and tail to warn other riders I am riding a "Diva" Hahah
Henry Miller's 11 Commandments for Creativity:
1 Work on one thing at a time until finished.
2 Start no more new books, add no more new material to ‘Black Spring.’
3 Don’t be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.
4 Work according to Program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time!
5 When you can’t create you can work.
6 Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers.
7 Keep human! See people, go places, drink if you feel like it.
8 Don’t be a draught-horse! Work with pleasure only.
9 Discard the Program when you feel like it—but go back to it next day. Concentrate. Narrow down. Exclude.
10 Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.
11 Write first and always. Painting, music, friends, cinema,
Great drippy day here in Turkeyville... I escaped to the LaCan"Y" and another taiChi class.... was able to stick it 40 mins again.. A Great class with Bobby!!! Good class, too...
Then for a few essentials from Trader Joe's , then Barn chores, then home, practice reading, and fixing cod soup with vegs Really lifgt and deelish and a Baked Potoat, yes with a little real butter. Some samples of Tj's coffe. and a cookie from The little French Bakery in Sunland and a "Red Eye" [double strength espressos and a splash of hot black coffee!
Gotta pick up Travatan tomorrow, forgot it today! ;(
Every Day is beautiful! TYL!!!
Cancelling my next concert next Monday... just not recovered enough, but feel confident that the April concert will be a Yes! Thank you ALL for caring..... suezenne
TYL for all my Blessings of Family [particularly my Son and his treasure, my Daughter in Law!!! And my beloved Friends both in real life and on FB, some of whom I feel as if I had known all mt life, thank you for your encouragement, as well as my band... Thank you!
APRIL 3rd Concert cancelled BUT!!!! The next one will be on May 29th!!!At the Donald Wright Auditorium 285 East Walnut, 818 371 7735
Suezenne Fordham, Steinway Concert Grand; Nate Light, Contrabass; Rochelle Coatney, Latin and World Percussion; Miles Senzaki,Drums and Percussion; and we all play Tibetan Percussion
REally great friend McGuffee Cathey arranges for her close friend and buddy from the Baltimore Symphony, on tour out here now Bassist Owen Cummings to meet for lunch yesterday!!! Malibu was really lovely,and he was gracious to ride in my 72 VW Bug Thank you Owen and McGuffee... Turns out that Owen was a classmate and party buddy of my brother-in law at the Peabody Institute and it was really a hilarious thing, I thought! Thank you for the great lunch and funny stories, Owen, and a great conversation with Mo, and Mc later last night !
SORRY, Friends, I am unable to Perform my concert next Tuesday at the Donald Wright Auditorium in Pasadena at the Pasadena, Ca main Library.... For sure, the concert in May as listed is on!!! May 29th same time and same place...
Brilliant, elegant Jazz Quartet,hip fusion of Jazz/Classical Fifth stream improvisation spiced with some great standards for Valentines Day. Bring your main squeeze and dig us!!!
Suezenne Fordham, Steinway;
Charlie Domingo, Contrabass, Rochelle Coatney, World Drums
Mike Senzaki, Drums.
Heartily invite EVERTONE to attend Rochelle's Jug Band appearance this Sunday Morning 10-1 on the 3rd street Mall Farmer's Market!!! She, Jimmy Cotrell's Jug Band is Authetic and really cool !!! Be prepared to have a feel-good Ball!!!
My profound personal tragedy made it impossible to really do my players justice.... The one concert we did play was ill attended, due to my really not being able to concentrate on getting the WORD out] and the cohesion in the group was non existent.... They tried, but that mind bending concentration was missing and I had to call the concert to a halt halfway through... And Yes, they were paid....
I have been treating myself well, and practicing WHAT and when at my discretion...If I feel like playing rachmaninov, I will, If it is Chopin, or Beethoven I will ... I am using the Great classical repertoire to retain and grow my tecnic.... Do I sound like Bill? No, but the hands are regaining their tecnic and Depth of thought ... I don't limit myself to Leschitezsky or the Brahms 51 OR the Chopin Etudes.... And I am giving myself the luxary of Rach for the first time in my life... It is essential that I be gentle with myself ... so I may recover totally in the shortest time possible, and draw my players or new ones close to once again perform my dreams and theirs!
I am even doing gardening walking my new old dogs and getting rid of a lot of things, clutter... but still not able to toss out his clothes... Can't get it through my head WHY he folded his underwear so meticulously before shooting himself! And he left hiis wedding Ring of 40 years on the Bathroomm counter!!! I don't think I will ever understand !!! My dogs are a source of Joy solace as is my great son Maurice and Daughter in Law, Lynn, AND my few but fabulous Friends both in person AND FB! Not to mention my Great Steinway that once belonged to Willie Kapell!!! A charming concert "B"...BTW, I don't wish this on anyone! I look forward to a continuing of my self healing, and look forward to many years of making music with the best possible Musicians.... Thank you for your Understanding! xoxoxos s
My profound personal tragedy made it impossible to really do my players justice.... The one concert we did play was ill attended, due to my really not being able to concentrate on getting the WORD out] and the cohesion in the group was non existent.... They tried, but that mind bending concentration was missing and I had to call the concert to a halt halfway through... And Yes, they were paid....
I have been treating myself well, and practicing WHAT and when at my discretion...If I feel like playing Rachmaninov, I will, If it is Chopin, or Beethoven I will ... I am using the Great Classical repertoire to retain and grow my tecnic.... Do I sound like Bill? No, but the hands are regaining their tecnic and Depth of thought ... I don't limit myself to Leschitezsky or the Brahms 51 OR the Chopin Etudes.... And I am giving myself the luxery of Rach for the first time in my life... It is essential that I be gentle with myself ... so I may recover totally in the shortest time possible, and draw my players or new ones close to once again perform my dreams and theirs!
I am even doing gardening walking my new old dogs and getting rid of a lot of things, clutter... but still not able to toss out his clothes... Can't get it through my head WHY he folded his underwear so meticulously before shooting himself! And he left his wedding Ring of 40 years on the Bathroomm counter!!! I don't think I will ever understand !!! My dogs are a source of Joy snd solace as is my great son Maurice and Daughter in Law, Lynn, AND my few but fabulous Friends both in person AND FB! Not to mention my Great Steinway that once belonged to Willie Kapell!!! A charming concert "B"...BTW, I don't wish this on anyone! I look forward to a continuing of my self healing, and look forward to many years of making music with the best possible Musicians.... Thank you for your Understanding! xoxoxos s
My profound personal tragedy made it impossible to really do my players justice.... The one concert we did play was ill attended, due to my really not being able to concentrate on getting the WORD out] and the cohesion in the group was non existent.... They tried, but that mind bending concentration was missing and I had to call the concert to a halt halfway through... And Yes, they were paid....
I have been treating myself well, and practicing WHAT and when at my discretion...If I feel like playing rachmaninov, I will, If it is Chopin, or Beethoven I will ... I am using the Great classical repertoire to retain and grow my tecnic.... Do I sound like Bill? No, but the hands are regaining their tecnic and Depth of thought ... I don't limit myself to Leschitezsky or the Brahms 51 OR the Chopin Etudes.... And I am giving myself the luxary of Rach for the first time in my life... It is essential that I be gentle with myself ... so I may recover totally in the shortest time possible, and draw my players or new ones close to once again perform my dreams and theirs!
I am even doing gardening walking my new old dogs and getting rid of a lot of things, clutter... but still not able to toss out his clothes... Can't get it through my head WHY he folded his underwear so meticulously before shooting himself! And he left hiis wedding Ring of 40 years on the Bathroomm counter!!! I don't think I will ever understand !!! My dogs are a source of Joy solace as is my great son Maurice and Daughter in Law, Lynn, AND my few but fabulous Friends both in person AND FB! Not to mention my Great Steinway that once belonged to Willie Kapell!!! A charming concert "B"...BTW, I don't wish this on anyone! I look forward to a continuing of my self healing, and look forward to many years of making music with the best possible Musicians.... Thank you for your Understanding! xoxoxos s
What a great day today!!! Call from Mo.... Concert at St Cyril's... Durfley Requiem.. Orch and Chorus led by that Great James Beck!!! Zip I was there with Max in tow to keep me company and stay in the car afterI found a great shady spot, de pottied and depeed him, fresh drinking water then on in to hear that great tearful Requiem! A tribute Concert for a much loved priest who had Died a while ago .... Great tribute.
Afterwards, i invited them for early dinner at my fave Italian Restaurant, "Farfalla" in Encino.... Really great food ! I had Zuppa di Pomadero, and a Cesare Salad... The Zuppa was awesome, the best I've ever had, AND really great Crusty Italian Bread with a little bown of the BEST Olive Oil with finely cut Garlic and a touch of Italian herbs1 "\Pelegrino with a twist of Lemon... The Zuppa had towsted Bread on the bottom of the soup bowl and was thoroughly sopped with the thick Tomato-y Zuppa!!! The waiters were really cool and a good time was had by all!Then off to rehersal for Mo, and off to the Barn for Max and me!!!
Hello to Jara and La Suenita... a toss of Grain Hay, and scrubbing of the water buckets, and a quick clean-up of the stalls then give the great Rodeo Horse KD her carefully measured supplements as per Anne's instructions.... She gets betterand better! [KD] under the watchful eyes of Anne, who is a brilliant horseWoman! Then on home, greetings for mt PitBulls who are incredible guards and on to an evening of hassling around with this stupid computer as I have ben blocked from my own emai;l!!! And the way back to it is a neverending loop that goes nowhere.... I really think I have been hacked? Oh, well TOMORROW is a nother adventure filled day! See Ya!!! Hang in there, to quote Myrna!
Grand and Glorious Monday RedTail Hawks are out and soaring and the Black Crowsare loudly proclaiming their territory!!! Time to tell the three Pits to take care of business and head to TJs!!But first to Barn to get rid a a busload full of discards!
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Grand session with my ChiroHealer, Dr. Simmons today! TMJ adjustment[ It's [jaw] about 90% better AND the Graston Tool treatment for Duperton's Syndrome, The bane of Hard practicing Concert Pianists [ 6 Hrs a day and over] Then to the Barn, chores, then home Dinner and more learning time, and fun reading the Handmacher Schleper Catalogue....Now some cheese and crackers!
and perhaps a splash of Pellegrino, with ICE that I got yesterday! !!! Max was a fun companion today!! Sit! Stay!!!
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Wishing Rochelle Coatney, my Latin Percussionist of four years a safe trip with her father to Savannah Georgia, and a great relocation there!
She is looking forward to living there and continuing making great music! GodSpeed Sistah!!!!
We went many places musically that no one has attempted before, and our great sidemen,Darren Ross, Noah Garabedian, Mike Senzaki and Nate Light!!!!AND ICON Don Littleton and his great bassist Brother Jeff!!!
Just now Listening to some stuff we did and it's amazing!!!
GodSpeed and See you!!! Loved your mallots on the strings of the Concert "D"Steinway!!!
Forever the group will not be the same.
Thank you for staying after concerts to help me schlep the Tibetan Percussion section back to the infamous red VW Bus!! Will miss you, my Sistah!!! You did Great!
jazz,billEvans,tibetan music, Fusion, elegant Jazz, Classical fusion Avant garde,
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Wishing Rochellr Coatney my Latin Percussionist of four years a safe trip with her father to Savannah Georgia, and a great relocation there!
She is looking forward to living there and continuing making
g great music there! GodSpeed Sistah!!!!
We went many places musically that no one has attempted before, and our great sidemen, Darren Ross, Noah Garabedian, Mike Senzaki and Nate Light!!!!AND ICON Don Littleton and his great bassist Brother Jeff!!!
Listening to some stuff we did and it's amazing!!!
See you!!! Loved your mallots on the strings off the Steinway!!!
Fantastic gigs well done! Thank you for being willing to go into th uncharted!!! xoxoxos suezenne
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I plan to resume Concerts with my Trio or Quartet in October or November in a venue I have not chosen... I amhoping my Drummer will be Mike Senzaki, and that my Bassist will be Nate Light! Havn't called them yet, so we'll see! This time has been very difficult for me... but I realise I have to gather strength!!! Hold your positive thoughts that the Spirit will flow as easily as it once did!
A GREAT NOTE for today, August 18th 2012... Reflections on the new place for my horses at "Rancho Tujunga" nestled in the Tujunga Wash between really beautiful mountains very tall ans craggy!
Spent some quiet time at the new Ranch where I now keep my horses!!! It is Mountain quiet!!!! NO FWY noise!!! very hard to take [ I have Tinnitus, and silence roars! The girls have fag difficulty as they were at the other Barn for 20 years!!! It has been very difficult for them!!! but the Mountains are very tall and beautiful and there are maybe a hundred huge sycamore trees.... providing deep sha
de ... It will be a great place to sketch and space out!
The owner is polite, and all in all, it will be fine... The other place looks awful by compaarison... the new owners have really let it slide into the toilet!
I am already spoiled at the new place they feed threeX a day, and Muck 2 X a day!!! HUGE Where-as I don't have to scrub buckets and make trips to feed!!! Really good! plenty of space! Ellie came today to start getting the girls acquainted with their place! They were freaking after being at the other place for 20 years!!! [ a huge slice of my life!
Will keep you posted! PTL!
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What to do? Know WTF you're +really voting for! and get rid of slackers in congress and the house...Demand that they have to pass drug and alcohol tests before they get their salaries and they have to pass written exams before they are allowed to vote on bills to prove they understand what they are voting for1 [ Nancy Pelosi quote " We have to pass this bill so we can find out whet's in it"
This is hilarious if it isn't so tragic! ! And NO, I am NOT a repub.... but "Non Partisan" Tis whole corruption thing is sickening. Clean House and when they need to be voted out next time, get out and vote them out til the water runs clean!
AND don't fall for the bit they are trying to pull.... like dividing us and spreading hatred1 We need to demand people are responsible and not allow the "open border" mess that is happening on our southern borders!
And btw we in LA are totally broke trying to maintain the
welfare state.... We build state of the art schools and 75% dont even grace the taxpayer with bothering to graduate1 75% don't!
BTW do you know who the richest person in the world is? The Queen Mother of England! And she and the Rothchilds own most of the US!
And have you seen the signs in our scenic areas that are now property of the UN? [ take a ride up the
Mojave Desert ans Sierras!]
A 65 mile strip of parkland is designated NO tourists as it is now occupied by drug cartels!
We are the taxpayers we have to be strong and demand that this and a lot if other stuff is all rectified, and that the constitution is adhered to !!!
Hooray!!1 lost 1 lb of the 4 I had put on with the use of insulin!!! My endroconologist pit me onn Glucophage last week and that stuff really works!!! And way less expensive that Ceylon Cinneman!!! [on Amazon] going to tell the radiologist all the suppliments that are recommended for this procedure.... There is a canadian protocal that they double up omn radiarion and it halves the time it takes.... I want the experience of the full procedure... I'm not in a hurry
Most of the securing tabs holding the wound together have fallen off except the one in my armpit thay was a sentinal node [ It was negative=no cancer
Tomorrow I will do something really fun in the glorious Ca Sunshine Got a really good call from Mo late this afternoon as he and Lynn were out Dog-Walking!!! My Opthamologist said it would be possible to do my cataracts while I am undergoing radiation, and that it may help with the glaucoma pressure in my left eye, hough I am on Travatan!!! Stay tuned!!! Just remember sometimes we have to repair our vintage cars if we want them to keep rumming!!! Hugs and TY for all your Prayers and positivity!!! God Bless us ALL!!!
oTay today was the appointment with my Radiologist!!! Not at UCLA... but nearer to where I live... at Glendale Adventist Cancer center... she will give me 5 minutes of Radiation to the area where the tumor was.... essentially irradiating the whole left Breast[ considerably smaller after Dr. Chang's excellent surgery... the radiation will go on for 6 1/2 weeks 5 days a week ... she will check me frequently for burning of the skin... she is an excellent Radiologist and encouraging and I agree that this is my best chance at life along with the 5 years of pills [ NOT Tamoxathin which gives blood clots in many instances] And so tomorrow I have an appointment with them the forst of tree preliminary tests, then we begin the irradiation of me a week from next Monday!!! Yes I believe in alt stuff... but when you ur life dangles, you get down to taking care of business, as Maurice puts it!!!Thank you for your White Light, Don... and your Love, Yves.... When you are in town lets have lunch if you can stand bopping around in one of my '72 VW Bugs!!! Lots of fun!
Cant believe tomorrow ends the fitst week and a half of Radiation treatments for my post surgery Breast Cancer.... At the beginning of last week, days 1/2 and 3 were spent with the Radiologist and her team carecully measurung everything and getting me over my terror of the huge maching and her souncs... Her name is "Agatha" because she always gets the bad guys... So the test run was last Wednesday, and we began in ernest... The team was caring and understanding and gradually my fears subsided and last Thursday and Friday went smoothly... then Sat and sunday off and Monday through today just flew by and I am at ease and after each treatment The oncol nurse and staff told me to use "Aquafor" a moistening cream so the skin will be more comfortable from the radiation.... I was already starting to itch... It is really fine that I go closer to where I live for treatmaant.... I drive there mysrlf and this gives me a sense of control... and I find that prayer is very comforting when faced with Agatha and her scary sounds!!! I so much comforted byt the team and joking with them,,, anf after this week there will be 5 more weeks... I have not had reactions yet... so am thankful!!!Keep your fingers Xed!!! XXXsThank you all my friends, and special prayers to those suffering from the Flu and all ailments!!!
Still with trepidition I know the 1st year anniversary of my Brilliant Architect Husband, Daumants us quickly approaching... He did this selfish and horrid thing on Valentine's Eve!!! Really ghastly!!
i am still reeling from it!!! What an insidious thing alcohol is and all it's ailments, pain and sorrows!!!
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Doing great!!! Radiation going well.... Breast is slowly turning very tan... and They insist I use "Aquaphor" to moisturise.... Cot ocanut oil as it will cause burns" so here I am I think I am into my 3 1/2 week of 4 1/2 weeks... I will miss the very upbeat , understanding and kind staff... the great Doctor Sara Kim... carecully intense... And the free parking.... and treating myself to something as a reward... And in keeping optimistic, I always wear good clothes and take time for makeup to present smiles to those I see... The Center asked me to participate in a sort of Beauty presentation in which the top cosmetic companies come in and present their products and how to use them... hahah!!! sounds strange, but is a woman feels good about herself her spirit will be in a more healing mood!!! I feel a sense of community here and wish all the patients a
Sat Night Feb 23, 2013 Thank you Maurice for more treasured Memories!!!
I'm still on cloud 9 from the great performance of the LACO tonight with Their conductor -Pianist Jeffrey Kahane!!! He lectured dissected and then Starred as Soloist in the Beethoven 4th Piano Concerto!!!I Loved his performence even more than the one with Dame Myra Hess and the NY Phil at Carnegie Hahh in the early 50's!!!BTW Myra used Music and the Concert Artists were all abuzz and indignant the next day!!!!
OK the Weekend..."free from the Radiation treatment and the greasy Aquaphor... but missing the other patients and the staff.... listening to some coolJazz on KJazz LA!! Hearing friends who have passed!!! Icons... Thinking about it I never thought-realised that guys like Cal Tjader, Teddy Charles, Milt Jackson< Bill Evans,George Shearing,Billy Taylor, Great Iconic musicians and in my clique... and Gerry Mulligan whom I tried my level best to save froom his Junk habuts... spending heaps of money on great food I'd cook for him to keep him healthy.... He eventually married a countess ... he was totally addicted to glam Hollywood types.... and she was able to kind of straighten him out sort of, before he goe a leg infection and died of it.... He was a boozer,too... but hat a great Baariton Player.... Never thought he'd go.... or any of tthem... they had too much talent to just kakaway...Oh well, he spent a few years studying Piano tecnic with me.... he had a "Pianoless Quartrt, but it really wasn't as he would always wend his way to a piano and play a few stumbling choruses on piano.... If he didnt like the music on my Steinway, he'd pick it up and teaar it into small pieces!!!o, he didnt pay me for the stuff he destroyed....Milt Jackson AKA Bags] also studied Piano tecnic with me??? ....In Italy he was famous not only as a vibes player, but as a piano playing singer!!! Hahah! Betcha you didn't know that about him....And did you know he loved to present friends with fresh Peach Cobbler he made? Still warm from his kitchen in his multimillion $$$ 2 story home in Scarsdale, NY... a VERY fancy area..... but he constantly whoned about being discriminated against, yet he was at the top!!! We had many heated public arguments about who was more discriminated against... Him or ME... a white chick making a living as a
Jazz Pianist... In case you wonder what dinner was tonight.....It was great... healthy and filling:.
Strange dinner: Hand sliced Roast Beef Sandwich on Whole Grain Bread with German Mustard/Onion?broccoli sprouts,arrugala,tomato,//Salad with Baby Greens, arragala,sugared walnuts,Red Oinion,tomato,spinach greens///Later on: NF Yogurt with Mango,Pistacios, tsp Strawb Jam!!!! Healthy??? Love Sprouts... great prices esp on meat!!! XXXs later a square of TJ's chocolate bar with Hazeknuts!!!
AGATHA HAS MAJOR BREAKDOWN..The beloved Radiation Machin o important to our Cancer revoveries has had a total breakdown....She is the Radiation machine delivering to hughly specific sites of potential microscopic mastases sites sighed her last sigh and will undergo vast highly tecnical renovations to recover her former prowess in the destruction of cancer...Her reconstruction will take at least a week, and in the meantime the patients undergoing therapy will go th another hospital to use their radiation facilities.... hoping for the same positive results... and remain full of hope optimism and trust...AGATHA is nick named for thte skilled British Detective who always gets the bad guys.... a very approproate name for an entity who eradicates cancer at the mo;ecular level... Bless you, AGATHA And Dr. Sara
Kim!!!
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Everyone prayers for Agatha's recovery or the location of the new Radiology machine!!!
My Radiologist said she will keep me posted tomorrow!!!She is a great Radioligist....[ I HOPE] hahah!!! what an adventure!!!
A totally great Easter!!! Maurice and Lynn took me for brunch at a new Hollywood seafood place " The Hungry Cat" They were rushing between gigs, but we had time to enjoy some really fine unusual seafood!!! /kinda depressed today... Tomorrow is my last radiation treatment.... being hauled over to a sister hospital as the Radiation machine at Glendale Advantist broke down last week, but they provided a comfortable Shuttle van and fine Chauffeur to tale the group of 7 to the Sister Hospital with a similar machine..Varnis Acceleratot Clinnic #???? so many ID #s... But tomorrow is my last day... I am sad over saying goodbye to these people, as we all have the same problem.... but I am loaded with the right amount of Radiation to fight mt cancer and get back to life in Music, and with my Trio or Quartet!!! These have been tense times but I know I have had great advice and I trust the people who are tending to me, and The support from people has been heart rending...So hopefully... life will go on, and I am Thankful for every bit of help, and Dr's genius, and His help in getting me through this.... so far.... I know I have frightened some friends and they really don't want to bother with me any more.... but there are others to lean a bit on! I am still the same person I was just slightly altered... And those who can see that will remain my friend... and if I lose a friend .... so what? The longer we know someone the closer we are to really knowing them!!!I thank God for my Son and Daughter in law, and all my friends and Volpino Assn people who sent prayers and all the other prayers, and thank Him for answering my prayers about getting through the "Treatment" W--O--W!!! What a great experience!!!
Yes... True today was my last Radiation Treatment.... 36 in allAftr the treatment at our sister Hospital [ Agathais still under repair] Lynn and her Assistant came into our waiting aresa singing silly songs and bringing to me my signed Document saying I had completed my Radiation Series, and a gift of a beautiful Key ring declaring me a Breast Cancer survivor.... All this bringing tears to my eyes.... I was the only one "graduating today..... I felt very down..... I really became atached to the staff tthere and the other Cancer fighters.... I was happy to complete this task of survival... but I will miss the Medical Attention, and the company of others who are in the same battle...But we all went from entering the reception area tand just stateing at the walls to being ab very friendly and gregarious group.... filled with optimisn and hope and really being encouraging to each other... Many jokes were told and many silly pranks in the Radiation Room..
it really for me was a very profound experience.... and I have shed many tears today and this evening over this hols thing...It was sad to say goodbye and to thank the great Limo Driver who got us speedily and safely from hospital to hospital.... And out Oncological Nurse who accompanied us and who was so concerned when she read my pulse was 34.... and she wanted to send me to the ER.... [no I didnt go} I think it was low potassium....Mixed feelings.... Oh well I see my Radiologist again in 6 weeks then again in 6 months to make sure the shin is healing Right now I look as if I've visited a totoo parlor for some serious Tatoos!!! Gross...
It actually looks like aurreal Art, I think....Now to get my Bone Density thing done and see my Med Oncologist to start my Vitamin D3, AND the 5year regimen of pills. Will try and sleep... Been giving Thanks and Blessings to all who have prayed and helped.... Bless you ALL!!! Tears...
So today I took myself to Bloomies for lunch.... Had the usual.... half Tuna on WW bread and Bowl of soup.... good Mushroom and Barley and hot cup of coffee.... Then back home really lonely... missing the other routine.... Made appt for the Bone Density scan soon... This evening hanging out with my dawgs... and practicing and listening to KUSC Classical Music and a bit of talk radio!!! Mike Mitacek, my Equal Interval Composition Professor called me after a couple of years... totally knocked me out... He's getting a group together for further studies ould I be interested??? Heck yes!!! On and way great!!!
So finally it seems I can keep my "Bone Density Scan Appointment at UCLA in Santa Monica [ their Osteo campus} I understand it will take about a half hour and no radiation to speak of... Then off to my fave Santa Monica Fish place for lunch... then the long drive back.... But I get to see and smell the ocean ... and pray the little N Korean Dictator can keep his fingers off the Nuke trigger.... really a scary thing... even scarier that O isnt rattling some sabers, too...How stupid people are always loving wars... while people starve all over including here... So, Pray, Everyone.... And have a meeting place to get back to your families... and put in some supplies.... The cab thing is to be hit with a nuke exploded in the atmosphere...knocking out our entire power grid for years.... WAKE UP everyone!!!
Todat was a good day to get a salad and sandwich from Sprouts.... really good quality and good prices!!!
Two more weeks then I start the 5 years of Pills, including D3... to rebuild my bones after the destruction the radiation has presumably done.... The Oncologist will also know tomorrow whether or not I can ride [ horses] due to my bones being too fragile... Amazing to go through all of this... really a fantastic experience!!!.... BTW My mentor and Professor of the Equal Intervan system of composition called me today, inviting me to join his new class ... A new foorm of Composition and of course I said YES!!! MX Mitacek.... a genius.... Love Brilliant people!!!
OK here I am in the middle of the night and suddenly I understood why the dangling twigs from the Chinese elm dragged through my haid as I walked past it...so I go out to check it and sure enough it is slowly collapsing tp the sideand when it is finished it will take out the doghouse designed to look like Frank LLoyd Wright!! AND part of the fence surrounding the yard!!! Darn.... just what I need another Huge Bill!!!
OK... here is a phenom!!! When there is a natural catastrophe in my yard... for instance My huge Chinese Elm developed aa faatal crack running vertically up the Trune.... the hummingbirds become very alarmed and land on my shoulders briefly and im a very distressed manner fly very close to the trees dangling twigs as if to share it's agony... This happenned when that tree split in the other side... but sittib=ng a distance from the ree I noticed this empaathy between the tree and the two hummies... and when I approached the tree with the trunk split and at about 3:00 position they both buzzed me and landed on my shoulder excitedly for a few second then flew back to the distressed tree... the tree man comes tomorrow... tyhere is no way to save the tree, alas.... This hurts.... she has been there since we moved in in 1973, and was huge then!!!
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I need your help!!! Does anyone know how safe "Fossamax " is for osteo Porosis>I heard a couple years agi it could cause thinning of the jaw bones rendering them crippled!!1 My oncologist wants to put me on it as I have to take a chemo pill for 5 years to help stave off s return of my Breast Cancer... I am in a real quandry tonight... just hat I need... another sleepless night!!! I appreciate your help!!! hugs, suezenne
Great Website!!! Healthy Holistic Living Sorry Suezenne
This is what Dr. Weil suggests:
"Bear in mind that medication isn't the only available approach for strengthening your bones. If you smoke, stop. Weight-bearing and strength-training exercises can help maintain bone mass. I recommend taking 500 to 700 mg of calcium citrate in two divided doses with meals, for a total daily intake of 1,000-1,200 mg from all sources, plus 2,000 IU vitamin D3 daily to promote calcium absorption. Cut back on your caffeine intake and soda consumption, and avoid excessive protein in your diet, all of which can promote calcium loss."
Have you considered the Gerson diet?
Great day today.... after fretting about the cancer pill I was invited to lunch with Anne Frankel, Extraordinary Show Jumoer Equestrienne wjo had a serious horse related accident in Feb..... I met het at her house and we weht to a really fun Italian restaurant, and had a really delicious lunch and shared a Tiramisu for desert!!!It was so good to get together with a lovely person and friend... Picked up my whole day and evening... I even brought part of my food home and had it for dinner!!
Thank you, Anne...I was honored
Suezenne Fordham Funny that before anyone was starting to figure it out everyone I knoe-knew felt something was terribly wrong but couldn't begin to unravel it!!! it felt as if the carpet was slowly being pulled from 'neath my feet.... My suicided husband felt that too, but he hid in alcohol and pain from physical disintegration... while I worried and threw myself into Jazz fusion Concerts... and got Breast Cancer... It's all so surreal~~~
One early morning after a great Party,I was a well known Pianist in NY,[ I was bringing my Beau at the time Saxist Gerry Mulligan And Actor Jason Robards Jr after eating escargot at an all night really hip restaurant... At one stop light I Looked in the rear view mirror of my VW Bug and Jason had a gun to my head... I freaked and he told me to "step on it" I did ... and after revving the car as fast as it would go, I looked in the rear view mirror at him again and he grinned evilly and put the gun to his mouth sideways and pulled the trigger and LIT HIS CIGARETTE!!! OMG!!!The gun was shaped like a small pistol.
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I once raised 3[!!!] baby hummingbords who were abandoned in their nest by their mother [ probably prey for a red tailed hawk.... they have to be fed every 15 minutes day and night!!! When they were ready to change food, I took them to a wildlife preserve and they were flying and briefly perching on my fingers!!! The wildlife people threatened me as an individual you are not allowed to do this...
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I once raised 3[!!!] baby hummingbords who were abandoned in their nest by their mother [ probably prey for a red tailed hawk.... they have to be fed every 15 minutes day and night!!! When they were ready to change food, I took them to a wildlife preserve and they were flying and briefly perching on my fingers!!! The wildlife people threatened me as an individual you are not allowed to do this...
Major problems again with this stupid computer... Dell cant grt FB or my email!!!
Suezenne Fordham I think my WORST Blues line when I had my Underground Rock Band was "It's hard to find a Po'k chop in this cold and windy cit-all time was "It's hard to find a po'k chop in this cold and windy cit-ay"" Well after all we were starving as a band, but I supported us with my really cushy gig as a Park Avenue Chanteuse, singing in three languages and accompanying myself on Piano@@@ hahah Those were great days!!!
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Pracyiced til 7 AM slept in then went grocery shopping... funny then to pick up uhe babes to go to the barn.... took Neener's fly mask [ with ears} and a nes "SWAT " for ear nasties ... black flies etc... but didnt really walk around really bothered by people who don't keep their dogs on leashes A woman in California was attacked by 4 pitBulls and killed and the police cant locate them !!! Drag! They just tore her to pieces she was 62, and out for a hike
I don't care what you say.... those dogs go off without warning and a human doesnt have a chance!!1 really sick people who owned them and removed them from their property when they saw what they did!!!
Suezenne Fordham NY was Great!!!Wwent to the Juilliard in "48 and loved it so much... then met a genius Architect... we moved to california and after 40 years of marriage he succombed to alcohol and suicide by shotgun... for all his genius he had many dark sides...
Suezenne Fordham Lena was a treasured and beautiful Neighbor when we lived at 230 iverside Drive in NYV for many years!!! She alway smiled and greeted you as if you were her best friend!!! Really a treasure!!! Harry Belafonte was a neighbor, too but he was really stuk on himself.... spoke to NO ONE!!!
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Suezenne Fordham She loved to walk in the rain.... and wore a really elegant Brown Trenchcoat.... and a simple Bandana... and NO makeup... But her complexion was perfection!!1 Duke ellington lived a few blocks up Riverside Drive in a HUGE Penthouse Apartment.... he was another neighbor who wlways brightened your day with huge grins.... He also wore A trenchcoat and on really cold days a Cashmere overcoat and Fedora!!!
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One of the most stupid things I ever dud!!!!! was give Jory Bushkin my treasured copy of the Schumann Piano Concerto when he was performing at the "Embers" a fancy east Side Boiterie for Jazz Piano trios... This was before I Goot my break to perform there... I paid for my Juilliard Schooling by working at the Embers as a Hat-Check Girl!!! [True}
Hi!!! google Duo Pianists " Anderson and Roe" they are totally stunning!!! Cant believe my eyes and ears!!! They are totally unique!!! Listen to their teaser for " The Rite of Spring" Gasp!!!
Ran across an old buddy from the NY Jazz Days.... Bassist Bill Crow who is a FB friend of Bev Getz, daughter of Stan getz and 2nd blood cousin to Mo!!! Well he rememebered the Hickory House days when I played opposite the Trio he was performing with--- Marian McPartland!!! It is great to see thtat he is alive and cookin... he recently performed with Ray Mosca Drummer who used to plat with my ex husband Alex Kaallao!!! Small world!!! Hi, Bill1 Great to see you on FB
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"The passion for music is already in itself a confession. Know more about a stranger music enthusiast that of someone who is insensitive to the music and we meet every day."
Notes on Gregorian Chant:OVE authentic Gregorian Chant!!! Learned it since 1st grade beginning in "37!!! Above: Miserere nobis, Agnus Dei qui tolis pecata mundi Agnus Dei Qui tolis pecatamundi,dona nobis Pacem.... Oh I do Midd the REAL Gregorian hant!!! The recordings now are so wrong!!![ like using all voices except 1 with no vibrato, then having ove voice doing a vibrato as others sing W/O.... Vibrato in real GC could never be used as it was considered a devil's voice if there was any vibrato!!! Also NO harmony at all,,, that was also sacreligious till way later when harmony was limited to 4ths and 5ths
Suezenne Fordham Wont bother you with this stuff!!! BTW... I am NOT anti gun.... It was simply his choices!
Suezenne Fordham No... It was his way out He was alcoholic and fortified himself with a half botthe of a fine Bourbon I was going to use in Baked Beans!!! I am happy he didnt take me, too....Fortunately he left a lengthy note in an envelop on his computer... It took a while to actually see it And when the police read the note they stopped questioning me.... I thought he had fallen on a rake that caused the hole in his neck.... cant believe how naive I was... He hadnever taken that shotgun out of the bag even to clean it to my knowlledge!!!
Suezenne Fordham Duh,,,, I know nothing of guns.... I thought the night my husband offed himself that he used a can grabber to grab the trigger, as I saw a shadow on the ground from a small light.... Just came to realise that shadow was the reflection of the trigger on the ground caused by the litt outdoor light... The police kept telling me there was no can grabber out there.... but that shadow still haunts my memory!!!
Suezenne Fordham AN sets you up for what you really love to do in Life... develops your Musical Passions if you are to survive in Music... If you love it above everything thenn you will not only survive, but Thrive, babe!Don't look at me I wasted lots of my time trying to fix D!!! to my own health's detriment!!! and to a loss of valuable time... It passes so quickly, but you can't see this at your time of life!
Wake:Don't forget PeeWee the Doorman!!! hahah!!! you are way too young to remember him!!! My first gig in my coming to go to Juilliard was a hatchick at Birdland... after 2 nights, Mo Levy took me ti the eastside jazz club gave me a gig as hatchick there as he said I wasn't right for Birdland!!1 BTW the first night walking down the stairs i heard my first sax player.... It was Charile Parker!!! hahah I had never heard that kind of music before
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Yes I remember you very well with MMPAnd also Joe Morello!!! W--O--W!! was she ticked when Joe left her Trio!!! I moved out here to LA in the early 70s and it really sucks as far as music goes... I sidestepped the clubs and formed my concert group... 4th Stream Avant GardeFun!!! [Including 8 gongs... My Son is a Studio and free lance Cellist That's interesting.... My Trio was on the road a lot out of NY for Glaser... I love your writings .... It reconnects me so clearly with NY.... I have never been back.... I hated to leave but married a brilliant young Architect wjo became a Theme Park Architect for Disney... Alas!!! he killed himself a year ago Valentines eve.... I still ride horseback, and have my own Paso Fino Gaited horses, doing all the work myself and sometimes teaching tthat discipline.... Still practice 7 hours a day starting at about 11PM.... hahah!!! Still into small cars have 4 VWs 72 s..... I am so tickled when I see your name!!! Bev is a long time FB friend,,,, turns out she is second cousin to my som [ the cellist.... in his long genealogical pursuit!!! Have a Ball.... Tickled to reconnect with you And really tickled at the thoughts of the HH!!! Remember Mr Popkin chasing a waaiter around that Bar with an ashtray raised overhead after a costomer complained about the steak>>> OMG How funny was that!!! Remember Bessie, the lady's room attendat and the really cool Musicians' table where everyone hung out??? Wwell I better not bother you .... please do Frind my FB as there are loads of grreat musicians and others there!!! Hugs from Ca.... [ gotta get to the Barn and take care of chores!!!
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Your group with M. Napoleon and Ra7 sounded good you really cook!!! Chops ae great!!1 Ray, too give him my Hi's and I send him a hug Does he still live in Garden Grove?? I was really saddenned by Telly Charles passing... we were friends for years!!! No one told me I just kept trying to get him on the phone for our usual conversations!!! Wonder what happenned to all his dogs??? !!! I am a bear with Bassists and I was really happy to see and hear you on the computer [ at the Regency} hahah!! Terrif!!!
Suezenne Fordham On Mamo's farm where I spent a lot of my childhood... there was a storm cellar that she used to put her home canned goods from her bountiful garden.... Just a hole omn the ground with a sort of top on it covered with earth at ground level.... One time my cousin and I were home alone when a bad twister hit and my cuz had the sense to get us and the dogs in there and get thte horizontal door closed... the tornado hit bad taking ALL the ois away ti Neverland!!! We never saw or heard about them from that time.... It was a somple thing maybe 6 ft X 10 feet .... homw done but it really worked as it was below ground with the door horozontal levey with the ground and a MILLION Black widow Spisies!!! EEEEEKKKkkk!!
Great!!! Just got a LONG telephone call from a NY Icon Drummer I knew many years ago!!1 RAY MOSCA!!! Played Drums with my first husband Alex Kallao RCA Victor recording Artist!!! We had a great visit... He lost a lot in Hurricanesandy and just now got a new roof.... and will redo his Music Room!!! He said he never saw anything like it!!! He's doing lots of playing ...Jazz Festivals recordings!!! He come to LA to record sometimes!!! Wow it is good to hear he's OK... though Bill Crow [ NY Bassist posted a gig from the Regency with RAY and Marty Napoleon!!! Bill and ray's rhythm section was "cookin'" really good feelings....
OK so here I sit after a lot of hours spent practicing and I STILL can't locate how to get the stupid toolbar on so I can see facebook !!! Arrrrgggghhh
OMG Its all hitting me today... Maurice went to NY a few days ago, and Lyn told me he went there to bury daumants D's ashes were at Mo's apartmany months as they couldnt find the right size urn that would fit in the Wall where his parents are buried... D didnt want this he just wanted to be scattered in places,,, but Mo, Lynn and I thought it would be better for him to be beside his parentsAt rota Latvian compound in Upstate Ny... And so it was that Maurice went to NY to see his Brothers , retrieve the ashes tthentake them upstate.... from what Lynn said... they had a candlelight ceremony, though it was raining And a couple of other people were there...AAnd it is hitting me about the whole of time that D and I were married... The first 20 years were really ... though nothing for me in my field here in LA!!! But through hard work... Mo developed into a stunning Cellist and ultimately married a marvelous young Lady,,,, Brilliant AND a Violist.... they had no children asMaurice developed Cancer Hodgkins and they were then only married 5 years.... they grew even closer and defeated that disease with Fine medical treatments from Cedars Sinai... They both became valuable Playere in the Studio Scene here... also in the Symphony, and Chamber Music areas....And for tthe first 20 tears D. was very successful as a Theme Park Architect- Imagineer at Disney... Alcohol had been a part of his life and as the years spun on it became moore of a problem... to be continued
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