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Do you pay atten­tion to the Grammy Awards?  I must con­fess: I don’t, not espe­cially.  Sure it’s fun to watch the yearly fash­ion show, and see the lights and glit­ter and lip-syncing played out… and we chuckle at all the win­ners’ bab­ble, and then laugh at the com­men­tary about the bab­ble, and then at the com­men­tary about all the com­men­tary!  But, when it comes down to it, frankly, most of the time I’m left with the feel­ing of where’s the music?  Where’s the real music?  Read the rest of this entry »

I was pretty young at the time, in ele­men­tary school.  And I remem­ber we had these weekly vocab­u­lary tests…ugh, not my favorite thing.  The teacher would give us a new list of words each week, and we had to learn the spelling of each word as well as the def­i­n­i­tion.  Read the rest of this entry »

It is always amaz­ing to me how every indi­vid­ual brings their own unique sparkle to the expe­ri­ence of music.  I mean, you can sit down thirty peo­ple in a room, give each of them a sheet of paper and a box of crayons, put on some music for them to hear, and say “Lis­ten closely, and draw what it sounds like…”.…  And despite the fact that all hear the exact same music in the same room at the same time, and all have the same col­ors of crayons, each per­son comes up with a totally dif­fer­ent and pre­cious gem of a pic­ture!  Now, isn’t that kind of remark­able?
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We posted about this video a while back on our news page, and finally we’re able to post the clip for you.

This trailer ver­sion is an excerpt from Bill Judge’s film Micro­Grav­ity, released through his Bodhi Leaf Pro­duc­tions com­pany. This doc­u­men­tary looks at the cre­ation of my Colum­bia album, focus­ing on the track enti­tled Micro­grav­ity.

Hope you enjoy it!

(this intro is from the liner-notes to my CD Colum­bia: We Dare to Dream)

I didn’t know them.  I didn’t know their names, or that they had been in space for six­teen days, or that they were called the “STS-107” crew, or even what “STS” meant.  But I was sit­ting next to my piano on the morn­ing of Feb­ru­ary 1^st, 2003 when I heard the news… the awful news that the space shut­tle Colum­bia had just bro­ken apart upon reen­try, 200,000 feet high in the skies over Texas, and that the entire crew had undoubt­edly per­ished.  Read the rest of this entry »

(liner notes for track 1)

There must be a day, I imag­ine,
when a great ship is finally
born to the world…
a day unlike all the others.

The sound of horns is in the air,
call­ing all the peo­ple… Read the rest of this entry »

(liner notes for track 2)

Got to keep going
got to keep going
keep up the pace
what’s the next step to do
look at the check­list
look at the check­list
check it again
all must be per­fect. Read the rest of this entry »

(liner notes for track 3)

They speak of it
reluc­tantly,
the astro­nauts of few who admit
to the sen­sa­tions
and frus­tra­tions
of the first days
in weight­less­ness:
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(liner notes for track 4)

Born from hum­ble roots in Kar­nal, India, Kalpana Chawla trav­eled one of the longest and hard­est roads to become an Amer­i­can astro­naut.  Though small in stature, she became hugely known the world over as “Kalpana” or “K.C.”, the Indian girl who against all odds wanted to become an aero­space engi­neer, the Indian girl who wanted to fly and explore and who per­se­vered to make it hap­pen.  Read the rest of this entry »

(liner notes for track 5)

They were com­ing home.

They were com­ing home to us,
where we were wait­ing
so proudly and assuredly.
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