Site last updated Dec 2009
‘It’s only with the heart that we can see truly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.’
(Saint-Exupery ‘The Little Prince’)

Music means many different things to different people. It can stir deep emotions inside us or make us smile or want to dance!

My mum was a musically gifted person but it was my Dad who taught me how to respond to music. For him it was a physical experience as well as an emotional one. He just couldn’t stand still - and I remember him in our kitchen on a Sunday morning furiously conducting the frenzied last movement of a Beethoven piano concerto or symphony with his hands, or a cooking spoon or whatever utensil he could find as he was peeling the potatoes. ‘You have to move’ he said, pacing up and down. And I believed him.

To this day I have this wonderful vision of a man in a red and black striped cooking apron conducting Beethoven with a ladle. And sometimes he would do something when he listened to music which was very un-British. Something rather strange for a rather traditional and ‘old school’ man – he’d sometimes cry. When moved by the particular beauty of a slow movement, tears would well up in his eyes.

I’ve never forgotten that wonderful lesson. That music can make us happy and laugh, but it can also be so beautiful that it can make us cry. And to cry sometimes is a good thing. Because it makes you realise what beauty is, and what being human is.

The ability to smile, laugh, weep and sigh makes us human and music leads us to all these places. Shakespeare knew this all those years ago and of the need to be wary of those with no music inside themselves:

The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils;
The motions of his spirit are dull as night
And his affections dark as Erebus:
Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music.
 (The Merchant of Venice)

Understanding and responding to music and seeing truly is something that needs the heart. It’s with these thoughts and reflections that I welcome you to this site. Mining for feelings and expressing the truth inside ourselves in all its honesty lies at the heart of my song writing. I hope you enjoy your time here getting to know some of my songs and music.

(Music © Peter Dulborough - Played by Peter Dulborough)

Simple2 Web Design © 2009