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Hello Christina, Thank you so much for your in-depth review and critique of my song, "Find Your Way." I truly appreciate your input. Brenda
No problem! It's a beautiful romantic piece. I mostly write children's music ;) Best, Christina
Glad you liked the thrift store song! Thank you for the review! Will listen to your songs as soon as I can find time. On tour right now in Raleigh NC
Thank you! Have a great tour! I'll follow it on Facebook :)
Hello again Christina. Thanks for liking my kids Christmas song! Mrs Kate
Hi Christina. Thanks for the great review of my smile song. Love ya! Mrs Kate on tour in Atlanta
Wow! Thank you very much for the review of, "Ode to Doodle-Bug!" I dedicated this piece to one of my daughters. I was deployed to Germany, so a big, "Vielen Dank!" also.
Hi John, sehr schoene Musik!
Hi, Thank you for your nice and thoughtful review of my flute/piano duet, "Nightingale's Song"! You asked if I recorded it digitally. I recorded it with a Zoom handheld recorder; nothing special. But I'm a composition student, being played by instrumentalist students, so the recording quality is not comparable to a professional sound studio. It's the fun that counts :) Best, Christina
Thanks for the review of my song new creation my friend.
You're welcome! Another well-made song! I can recognize your music by now, too ;) Been on the road much lately, haven't you? Good luck and lots of success with the kids and travels!
Actually I have 2 weeks off. Meeting a graphic designer tomorrow and studio Friday. Florida folk festival coming up memorial day weekend. Last week I got to sing for 1000 kids. Praise God!
Wow, that's for a lot of kids! :) Hoping the weather will be nice. Or is it inside? I'm getting ready to record new songs with the students in June, when they're back from their vacations...
Hello, thanks for your very constructive feedback on my "English" song, "Little Swedish Clogs"! I'm on soundcloud, if you want to check out some of my other music. It's mostly classical children's instrumentals, and a few art songs. https://soundcloud.com/christina-ly ons-7 Best, Christina
May has come and the flowers bloom, will the music come soon now school is out? Birthe the impatient lyricist.
I hope so! This is the last week of the semester, and next week starts finals week. The pianist will have time from then on; the singers are ready. Waiting for the kids to give me a date....
Can you send me the leopard gecko link again please? thanks Kate
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Hello Christina, Thanks for the review of Secret Agent 4 Jesus. I wrote it as a theme song for a spy camp. Glad you liked it. I told my roadie about you. Let me see if I can find that link to your leopard geckos to share with her. Loveya,Kate
Wow, a spy camp! That's cool ;)
Hi Kate, Thanks for your review of "Munchkin" :) You guessed right -- it was from me ;)
Hi Christina, thank you very much for your kind words in your review of my song "Diamond in the Snow."
You're welcome! It's a very beautiful song. Good luck with your projects! Best regards, Christina
Hi Kate, Thank you for your review of "Little Pony"! You're right, it was very complicated, especially for the pianist. We don't have live videos of us on YouTube, alas, just still images. I'm more on soundcloud now, anyways. We have at least one live recital on SIU campus every semester, though, if you travel through Southern Illinois one day :) Have a happy and successful 2016! Best, Christina
Thanks you are a gracious good sport.
My Mum put it shorter: "Good gracious!!" :)
Hi My Three Kids, Thank you for your great review of my children's instrumental, "Little Swedish Clogs"! I mostly write children's pieces for flute and piano, but also have some voice/piano arrangements of poetry by Anna Akhmatova and Percy Bysshe Shelley. You can check them out here: https://soundcloud.com/christina-ly ons-7/tracks Happy New Year! Christina Lyons
Hallo Christina, I am looking forward and finding it childishly hard to wait for the Nisse song........ Hope all is going swimmingly well. Best from Birthe
Hello Christina, How are you doing? Thanks for reviewing baby nap song. I did re-record this song for my most recent CD, Lightning Bug Lullabies. Take a listen to the new version and let me know whatcha think. We added cello! http://www.broadjam.com/artists/songs.php?artistID=24409 1 Your friend in FL, Mrs. Kate
Hi Kate, I couldn't find it under the link you sent me and went through all your files until I found the Nap Song for adults! That one is cool, too! You're right, adults need a nap some time, too ;) I just spent great winter vacations with my husband's family. We're back to recording coming Monday. I'm cooperating now with a lady I got to know on broadjam -- she writes lyrics (beautiful children's texts, but for adults, too), and I wrote the music to one of her poems. We want to make a CD together, recorded by students from my university. I'm very excited! Hope you got well over the holidays! All the best, Christina
It's called NAP TIME and here is the correct link: http://www.broadjam.com/artists/songs.php?artistID=24409&mediaID=658858&play=true&pg=4 1
Which BJ artist are you collaborating with? I wish you the very best in your new project. I will be glad to hear it when you get it up on BJ. Mrs. Kate
It's Birthe Noer Myers! I finally found your Nap Time and like it very much with the cello! All the best, Christina
Oh I know Birthe, she's a good BJ friend of mine. :) Glad you like the redone nap song.
Hi Christina, Thanks tons for the review of Go Lucky. A fun one that one! I'm so envious of your skills and abilities with your training and beautiful sounds throughout your pieces. Beautiful stuff over there for sure Christina. You take real good care, Billy
Thanks! I just listened to your "Bad Guys" and "Camp Sight," and liked both! You don't create your own lyrics, either? I just found a poet on broadjam who gave me some poems to write music for, and our first children's song will be recorded in the next few weeks. It's fun! I'm more comfortable as instrumentalist, but I definitely have a lot to learn matching syllables to notes... There's nothing to be envious about -- my music training consisted in six years of piano lessons when I was a child. I've only been composing since winter 2011. I'm taking music classes now, but most is intuition and learning by doing. Go lucky! :) Christina
Hi Christina, I snagged a couple piano lessons when I was 6ish and wish I'd have stuck it out longer. The whole music-reading, theory-thinking kinda stuff I musta missed?! But we use what we have and as you said "learn by doing". I ended up playing music full time for over 15 years in a few road bands and loved every single minute of it! Enjoy the new year Christina, and I wish you all kinds of successes. Smile tons, Billy
I don't think the theory-kinking stuff is that necessary. The classics didn't have that, either. Of course, if we want to teach it, it's a prerequisite, but just to work as autodidact and have some fun, we can probably get away without it. It's probably more important to stay ahead of the technology of sound editing nowadays. I used to play the guitar with one other guy in the streets in my early twenties and miss it. Never was in a band; that must have been fun! Happy New Year to you, too! Christina
Hej Christina, You can probably guess my joy when I saw that the wonderful,new review of 'Conquerers" was written by you!!!!!! Such a good review, and such good advice means a lot coming from you since you did not know that it was mine. It is so good to know that ayou really like it. Looking forward to hearing Nisser, all the best from Birtje
Hi Birthe, This was a very teachable, good song! My husband and I discussed whether we would give it the title "Conquests of Men" or "History of Mankind"... BJ always asks for a "title" :) I especially liked your sentence that the invaders took the land from "the crew that was already there." This song should be mandatory on the curriculum of ES, MS, and HS history classes, because kids of all ages should learn that Columbus wasn't maybe that great hero they all were taught to believe, and that every conquest also has another side. Coming Monday, I'm starting recording again!! We'll begin with a Russian song just with Altynay and Allison, and as soon as the other singer comes back from her vacations, we'll record Nisser!! Can't wait, either. The break was good, and the snow in Michigan was nice, but it's also great to be back home at the piano :) All the best in the New Year, Christina
Hallo Christina, Well, I have listened to all of your pieces and they are as intriguing as the names you have given them. I like the humor, I like the 1700 c. sounds, I want to dance gavotte and minuet to them, they are delightful. I wonder if your formal music would be singable with lyrics like my formal poems/songs................At any rate, your music is wonderful and rare. Birthe
Hi Birthe, Thank you very much for your nice comment! All the best with your music; looking forward to hearing more from you in the future! Christina
Hi Birthe, Six of my pieces were just performed at SIU's composer recital! You can hear them here: https://soundcloud.com/christina-ly ons-7/tracks They say "live at composition recital" behind them :) I've started a fundraising campaign, in order to pay our music students a little for their recital performance and their CD recordings: https://www.gofundme.com/nwce5qh8 I would be happy if you could help me spread the word... Happy holiday time, Christina
Hej Christina, I should love to help you, and I wish I could attend your recital, but alas, I am not able to do either. I am 77 and rather hampered by Parkinsons. I started late writing lyrics and my music connections are few. I hope you have luck elsewhere. However I should like very much to send you new lyrics on the chance that one might inspire you to set it to music. If you have read the texts of my songs you will know that the style is rather formal, but the content is usually fun. I will quite understand if this has no appeal to you. Great good luck with the recital and a very happy holiday to you too, Birthe
Hi Birthe, that would be very interesting! I'll give you my email for sending lyrics to: christinalinda.lyons@gmail.com I'm teaching, and this is our last week before Christmas break, so I'll have some time to compose. I'm an "emerging composer" and have been writing music only since 2011, and my notation is not perfect, but I'm full of fun melodies and quite creative... I've never had lyrics for my children's instrumentals, have worked with very few classical poems, and would be thrilled to try it with one of your texts! I'll keep you updated on the process and will give you credit for the lyrics, of course. I'd be happy to get some of your texts! Until soon, Christina :)
Hi Birthe, getting close to finishing up "Nisser"! Will send you email updates... You're probably celebrating with family already... or preparing for that ;) All the best, Christina
Hi Birthe, Hannah Cook is back from vacation and is practicing the Nisse song now, too! Soon, we will meet for rehearsing with the alto and pianist, and find a date for recording! School starts tomorrow for me, so it's getting busy ;) Have a great day, Christina
Thank you, Christina, for your wonderful review of Chocolate. I am very glad it was given to you to critique because I might not have found your music - but I have now, and I am looking forward to listening to your songs - they have intriguing titles. Best from Birthe
Hey Christina, Thanks for the Review of Daddy-O. You are right, it was written with a Christian world view in mind. I thought your comment about making kids cry was interesting because I have had 2 differing experiences with this song. In one case (absent father), it made a kid cry. In the other case (abusive lousy father), it was the girls' favorite song because it showed them that "really good daddies" truly exist in this world. At any rate, it's a vintage recording. It's quite popular w/ the conservative Christian crowd, and makes a good Father's day song. However, we rarely sang it in our church because of the reasons you mentioned. I originally wrote it for MY kids to sing to THEIR daddy. And he is STILL awesome! Your friend in FL, Mrs. Kate
Oh, how cool! I didn't know it was from you until I had completed my review. I still think you should write a song about yourself as a mother, and all the mothers out there! My church people would love it. It's nice that a kid with an abusive father could see her wish daddy in it. I had problems with my father, even before my parents divorced (he died young, and we kind of never got to resolve them), but I could relate a bit. Do you have a soundcloud or YouTube channel with your works? Best, your friend from IL, Christina :)
Hi back. Christina, I actually do have a Mommy Song. Here is the link: http://broadjam.com/player/player.php?play_file=24409_392681&sessionID=56EDC2430C744A45A21EB9B463B5A902&sessionINDEX=17079 1 This song has had a good amount of download action and is PERFECT for Mother's Day. Sadly I have know some moms who have deserted their children, but it seems to be less frequent than the daddy problem> I am sorry you had trouble with your dad. I do not have a soundcloud but I have quite a few youtubes up. Wish I had more good ones. I need to get some more of my tv show appearances up. Time time time....that's always what I need more of! And motivation for the computer stuff. It always gets relegated to the last thing on my list cuz I don't enjoy the computer stuff. At any rate, send me your email and I will get you on my list. Thanks. Mrs Kate
Nice!! "My mom's the best, too" :) I followed you on YouTube. My channel is https://www.youtube.com/user/wwwlzr dgrlnet/videos , but since I discovered soundcloud, I've neglected putting new stuff on YouTube. I love your Anhinga song!! This summer, I taught gifted high school kids how to make bird symphonies with Internet bird sounds (they're here: https://soundcloud.com/christina-ly ons-7/call-of-the-birds-3rd-hour-mu sic-class-challenge-2-excellence ). I came across the anhinga, too. None of my kids chose this bird to integrate into our symphonies, though... Maybe next time ;) You have a missionary daughter; how interesting! My uncle Horst Goldstein was a missionary in Brazil. Here is his last book, Enjoy Life Every Day (in German): http://www.amazon.com/Genie 1 %C3%9F-Leben-befreiende-Theo logie-Wohlstandes/dp/3786723699/ref =sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1447784190&sr=8 -1&keywords=geniess+das+leben+alle+ tage%2C+horst+goldstein Alas, he died young in a car crash in 2004, one year before my father. He lived in Berlin. He also translated religious books from Portuguese into German. My email is: christinalinda.lyons@gmail.com Would be nice to hear from you some time. Best, Christina
Hi Kate, Six of my pieces were just performed at SIU's composer recital! You can hear them here: https://soundcloud.com/christina-ly ons-7/tracks They say "live at composition recital" behind them :) I've started a fundraising campaign, in order to pay our music students a little for their recital performance and their CD recordings: https://www.gofundme.com/nwce5qh8 I would be happy if you could help me spread the word... Happy Christmas time, Christina
link wasn't working Merry Christmas, Christina! Mrs. Kate Here is our family Christmas poem for your reading enjoyment: http://www.mrskate.com/# 1 !the-rest-of-the-story/c1hz
https://soundcloud.com/christina-ly ons-7/tracks Now, the link works, "little tornado" ;) Have wonderful holidays with your family!!
OK, I see -- every time I insert the link, it spells my name "lyons" like "ly ons." Just put the letters closer together and the link works. It's probably on purpose by broadjam, so that people don't promote themselves??
No, they don't do that. But honestly, with it being Christmas, I am swamped right now. We just worked on our Dec/Jan/Feb Calendars. With the holidays, company, and a busy performing/touring sked, it'll be "keep it simple" so I won't be able to listen to or do much, I'm afraid. Merry Christmas!
Hello Christina, Glad you liked the Potty Training Song! Hope I get to review some of your music soon! Mrs. Kate PS this song has been downloaded all over the world and is gaining popularity...I am thrilled!
It's really cute!! I also write children's music, but only instrumental. Your text is a hit!! You should make an accompanying picture book for potty training with it, and include the CD in the back cover ;) With createspace.com, you can create cheap and nice looking books (and CD's with matching covers). Best, Christina
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Thank you so much for your kind review of our song B-17. Spark Hartman and Rusty Newcomer (Signal 30)
hello Wray music...what happens next with selected songs?
Hi, Thanks for your review of my flute/piano piece, "Valentine's Day" ;) It was in broadjam's Top Ten last year. If you want, you may use it in your show. Email me if you want the score: christina.voss@gmail.com If you want to use it as it is, please indicate that the pianist is David Lyons, the flutist is Joshua Armbruster, and the composer is Christina Lyons. Best, Christina