Nectar Procession
Too late to love
Safe and sound
Intrepid
Should I?
Who were left?
Lost Money
Headwind
A forlorn string trio on a quest with inspired intentions are blown off course by rising winds… before regaining balance and poise on their melodic journey.
“Across the river and above the rails” painted with watercolors by Sanford R. Bender in 1981
I know the way
I just uploaded the original version of “I know the way” prior to having added the mandolin part posted last week. At that time, I had decided to let the mandolin part become more prominent. The guitar and concertina parts threaded in and out from the background with only intermittent assertions in accompaniment. Such richness of barely heard voices are revealed when a single dominating presence sifts into silence! SRB
She Runs Through My Mind Like an Apparition
Listen to my recent musical composition entitled, ” She Runs Through My Mind Like an Apparition” for guitar, concertina, and mandolin. My boxwood engraving of a vine covered oak is evocative of the haunted James River floodplain in Virginia. The musical composition is reminiscent of stories sung in ballads that migrated from Europe and Africa to the southern regions of North America. The diverse musical instruments express the fleeting polyphonic thoughts that run through my mind, forever changing in time. I fondly acknowledge my son, Adam Bender for assisting me with graphic layout and production. Sandy Bender