Tag: Mandolin

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Nectar Procession

“Tulips in bloom” photographed by Sanford Ross Bender on April 20, 2024.
“Nectar procession” composed and performed with guitar and mandolin by Sanford Ross Bender on April 27, 2024.
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Too late to love

“Sun glow dialogues” photographed by Sanford Ross Bender on April 3, 2024.
“Too late to love” composed and performed by Sanford Ross Bender with mandolin and guitar on April 2, 2024.
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Safe and sound

“Safe and sound” composed, performed, and recorded with guitar, mandolin, banjo, and concertina (Original title “They were left”) by Sanford R. Bender on March 31, 2023.
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Intrepid

“Autumn tree” drawn with colored pencil by Sanford Ross Bender 2023
“”Intrepid” composed, and performed with guitar and mandolin by Sanford Ross Bender on November 1, 2023
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Should I?

“Should I? ” composed, performed. and recorded with guitar, mandolin, and concertina by Sanford Ross Bender on July 13, 2023
“River reflections” painted with water colors and ink by Sanford Ross Bender
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Who were left?

“Two goats” drawn in sketchbook with colored pencil by Sanford R. Bender on April 2, 2023
“Who were left?” composed, performed, and recorded by Sanford R. Bender with guitar, mandolin, banjo, and concertina on March 31, 2023
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Lost Money

“Upstream” photographed by Sanford R, Bender in Tyler Park, Pennsylvania on March 26, 2023.
“Lost Money” composed, performed, and recorded with guitar, banjo, concertina, and crash cymbal by Sanford R. Bender on March 27 & 28, 2023
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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.

“Headwind” composed, performed, and recorded with guitar, mandolin, banjo, and wind” by Sanford R. Bender on December 2 -3, 2022

“Across the river and above the rails” painted with watercolors by Sanford R. Bender in 1981

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I know the way

” I know the way” painted with acrylics on canvas board by Sanford Ross Bender In June, 2001.
“I know the way” composed, performed, and recorded with concertina and guitar (rearranged without mandolin) by Sanford Ross Bender on September 17, 2022

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

“I know the way” composed, performed, and recorded with mandolin, concertina, and guitar by Sanford Ross Bender on September 11, 2022

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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