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SATURDAY 17 MAY A GOOD WORD
Where we all ought to begin is a good thought to help us all sing. Then a good word will be a fruitful seed to lift our world through a good deed.
How unthoughtful then to believe our future a friend, if not our thought be good, say not what we ought and do not know we should.
Verily, where we all ought to begin is a good thought to help us all sing. Then a good word will be a fruitful seed to lift our world through a good deed.

A good word, truly, a good world.



SUNDAY 11 MAY BIZET, FRUMERIE & HAYDN
Grateful to be a small part of  Karlskrona chamber orchestras concert under the direction of Jörgen Ådvall when music of  Bizet & Haydn as well as  Frumerie were performed with Katja Wisén as flute soloist.

Jörgen Ådvall CONDUCTOR
Katja Wisén SOLOIST
KARLSKRONA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

BIZET Carmen suite 1 & 2
FRUMERIE Flute concerto
HAYDN Symphony no. 103

Thank you warmly, Anders and all.


Grateful to be a small part of Gävle symphony orchestras concert under the direction of chief conductor Christian Reifs when music of Saint-Saens & Halvorsen as well as N. Stookey were performed. The latter composer invited all to solve a mystery in the orchestra.

Christian Reif CHIEF CONDUCTOR
Niklas Riesbeck HOST
C. SAINT-SAENS Danse Macabre
J. HALVORSEN Norska äventyrsbilder
N. STOOKEY The composer is dead

Thank you Glenn, Anders, Marcus and all.


SATURDAY 15 MARCH SILENCE BIRTH
An hour of silence birth, an hour of true worth. In its silent room we all bloom. The time in an hour of silence birth, brings the hour of true worth, whence two hours a week makes us all meek.


Gratuful to have been a part of Gävle Symphony Orchestras conserts under the direction of Christian Reif when music by Lopez & Trojan as well as Jancek were performed with Ksenija Sidorova as accordeon soloist in Trojans "Fairytales".

Christian Reif CHIEF CONDUCTOR
Ksenija Sidorova ACCORDEON
GÄVLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

J. LOPEZ Symphony nr 5
V. TROJAN Fairytales
L. JANACEK Jenufa Rhapsody (Arr: Max Schönherr, 1940)

Thank you warmly, Glen, Anders, Lucia, Markus and the whole orchestra.



SATURDAY 26 JANUARY HOPE
Napoleon Hill, an American author in the early 1900s, knew about hope.

In a chapter of one of his most famous books, Napoleon Hill tells about a boy who was born without ears and the doctor said that the boy would be a deaf mute all of his life. The boys father objected to this. "It can not be so and it will not be so," said the father when the doctor had given the parents this tragic information. The father was Napoleon Hill himself and the newly born boy without any ears was his own son.

Napoleon challenged the doctor´s opinion with reason as the boys father. At that moment Napoleon made a decision that his son will be able to hear and speak, but Napoleon expressed this decision only within himself, within his hearts chamber. You could give him a child without ears but you could not demand that Napoleon would accept this reality. In his mind he knew there were a way and that he would find it.

He thought of the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson; "The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word." The right word? DESIRE. More than anything else he desired that his son would be able to hear and speak. And from this desire Napoleon did not back down - not even for one second.


SATURDAY 11 JANUARY A GOOD WORD
Where we all ought to begin is a good thought to help us all sing. Then a good word will be a fruitful seed to lift our world through a good deed. How unthoughtful then to believe our future a friend, if not our thought be good, say not what we ought and do not know we should.

Verily, where we all ought to begin is a good thought to help us all sing. Then a good word will be a fruitful seed to lift our world through a good deed.

A good word, truly, a good world.

SUNDAY 5 JANUARY TWELTH NIGHT
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”

William Shakespeare from Twelfth Night



SATURDAY 7 DECEMBER INNER PEACE IS STRENGTH
On the farm where he grew up with all his siblings the elderly man sat alone after that his wife had died before him. He knew the farm, the village, and the community where he had lived his whole life. He knew when the swallows arrived during the year, he knew all the different weather shifts and he had peace; something he had been given from his parents and the environment he grew up in.

It was winter and he was now an elderly man that went out on the yard for an errand to the car when he slipped and fell underneath the car, so bad that one leg broke and there he laid.

Around him came the neighbours, yes, and even some relatives that happened to pass by. All were worried for him that now lay there seemingly helpless and an intense discussion started about which way was the best to help him. One thought this, another thought that and it seemed like there was only one person that was calm; the man with a broken leg underneath the car.

"Let one of you go and get the broad plank in the barn, put me on that and drag me into the house while one other of you calls my son who will come with a first aid kit as soon as he has the time," the man declared from his supine position.

With that said and done the man came into the warmth on a broad plank and the son came with assistants, yes, and to the hospital eventually.

It went so bad that the leg had to be amputated and the man had to spend the rest of his life on crutches. Regardless of all this the man kept his calm and even when the forest were up for inspection you could see him with crutches make his way through the most miserable terrain.

The man knew the farm, the village, and the community where he had lived his whole life. He knew when the swallows arrived during the year, he knew all the different weather shifts and he had peace; with or without leg.



FRIDAY 29 NOVEMBER KORNGOLD, GLAZUNOV & DVORAK
Grateful to be a part of the Gävle Symphony Orchestras concert under the direction of Case Scagliones when Korngold & Glazunov as well as Dvorak preforms including Simone Lamsma as violin soloist.

Case Scaglione CONDUCTOR
Simone Lamsma VIOLIN
Gävle Symphony Orchestra

E. W. KORNGOLD Märchenbilder
A. GLAZUNOV Violin concerto
A. DVOŘÁK Legends op. 59

Thank you warmly Glenn, Anders, Markus and the Gävle Symphony Orchestra.

Organizer; Gävle symfoniorkester & Gävle konserthus.


SATURDAY 26 OCTOBER SENSE OF HOME - a sense of belonging
You know the feeling of coming home after a long journey, when you put the bag down and breathe out. Sure, the journey was nice, yes, even wonderful; nevertheless there it is as soon as you close the door - the sense of home.

You know that warm, good, calm sense that only a safely home can bring. We all know that not every home has that kind of sense, yet; still we know that this sense can be found - either way.

Think of it - where do you find it?
Or - when do you find it?

It is a more important question than you think. Let us say that you do not find it, how would that be? Do believe that we all have felt that from time to time, when the schedule has been full and we have driven ourselves too hard. It is probably more common today than ever before because of all the possibilities and impressions we all take in during just one day.

Did you figure out where you find it - the sense of home?
Or - when you find it?

What would happen if you were able to find the sense of home at least once a day?
Say that you get that sense when you just have woken up, rested, without an alarm clock in the weekend. Would it then even appear if you where able to get the same amount of hours of sleep during the weekdays as you get in the weekends - to get calm mornings even during the weekdays.

Or if the sense of home appears when the kids has fallen a sleep - with or without your spouse. Would it appear for a moment everyday if the kids where put to bed an hour earlier?

Maybe it is during the lunch walks as a student, acquisition worker or as a pensioner this sense appear.
Wherever you find it, it is real, important, yes, invaluable to build us up and even so our lives. In this state, the sense of home and comfort, we find good thoughts and makes good decisions. If we choose to nurture this feeling and daily moment, we nurture a good life, bit by bit, yes, seed by seed.

You nurture a healthy and clear perspective as well as a healthy life that like an olive tree grows stronger and safer, day-by-day, week-by-week, yes, year-by-year.

So, regardless how far you have gotten from yourself or even how homeless you feel, you can nurture your way back home again.



SATURDAY 19 OCTOBER A GOOD WORD
Where we all ought to begin is a good thought to help us all sing. Then a good word will be a fruitful seed to lift our world through a good deed.

How unthoughtful then to believe our future a friend, if not our thought be good, say not what we ought and do not what we should.

Verily, where we all ought to begin is a good thought to help us all sing. Then a good word will be a fruitful seed to lift our world through a good deed.

A good word, truly, a good world.



SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER SILENCE BIRTH
An hour of silence birth, an hour of true worth. In its silent room we all bloom and all can bear from month to year.
Verily, an hour of silence birth, an hour of true worth.





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2022, 2021, 2020, 2019.


SATURDAY 19 MAY UPCOMING RELEASE - STUDIES FOR SNARE DRUM released 25 august 2023
Grateful for all the teaching, inspiration & love of music who brought these studies for snare drum to life. Grateful for composers, teachers, colleagues, friends & most of all great musicians who have inspired them.
 
The first ten of these studies are based upon classic snare drum parts from the symphonic repertoire whilst the latter two are free compositions. All the studies are ment to be studied as exercises. To strenghten as well as inspire the classical snare drum playing to new personal hights.

Dedicated to Hans-Erik Grandin, Lennnart Gruvstedt, Perry Dreiman, Joakim Berg, Martin Orraryd, Glenn Larsson, Bo Håkansson, Anders Nilsson, Andreas Påhlsson, David Kangasniemi, Jonas Blomqvist & Tom Nyby for your teaching, inspiration & all the wonderful musical memories.

SATURDAY 13 MAY HAVE YOU EVER HAD A DREAM?
In times of change the learned find them self beautifully equipped for a world that do not longer exit - while the learners inherit the earth.

Changes, we all pass through in life, either we like it or not, and sometimes changes come to us all collectively - like today. If we all could learn to know that we are here to grow - we continually enhance, regardless of age, gender or colour.
 
Someone said; "Without vision, people perish." Which means that we have to have a dream - a direction forward, always. You know, like the Kings do, they pass on the crown immedtially after their death to the next generation, so that continuum never ends - and are we not all Kings and Queens, in regard to an eternal perspective.

Like Chuck Mangione wrote;
"Without dreams of hope and pride, a man will die
Though his flesh still moves, his heart sleeps in the grave
Without land, man never dreams cause he's not free
All men need a place to live with dignity.
Take the crumbs from starving soldiers, they won't die
Lord said not by bread alone does man survive
Take the food from hungry children, they won't cry
Food alone won't ease the hunger in their eyes.
Every child belongs to mankind's family
Children are the fruit of all humanity
Let them feel the love of all the human race
Touch them with the warmth, the strength of that embrace.
Give me love and understanding, I will thrive
As my children grow, my dreams come alive
Those who hear the cries of children, God will bless
I will always hear the Children of Sánchez."

Yes, take the crumbs from starving soldiers, they will not die. Take the food from hungry children, they will not cry. But take the dreams from little children (in all ages) and we all will die.

Have you ever had a dream - please do so now.



FRIDAY 5 MAY BAROQUE & RENAISSANCE
Grateful to be a small part of Gävle Symphony Orchestras concert under Paul McCreeshs direction, when music from the baroque  to the renaissance is performed with mezzosoprano Anna Hellenberg as soloist. Grateful.

J. HAYDN Symfoni nr 6 ”Morgonen”
J. HAYDN Arianna a Naxos
G. ROSSINI “Assisa a piè d’un salice” ur Ottelo
G. ROSSINI Wilhelm Tell, ouvertyr
G. ROSSINI ”Cruda sorte” ur L’Italiana in Algeri
G. DONIZETTI “Fia dunque vero … O mio Fernando” ur La Favorita

CONDUCTOR Paul McCreesh
MEZZOSOPRANO Anna Hellenberg
GÄVLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA


SATURDAY 22 APRIL BEAUTIFUL SIMPLICITY
Imagine; the sun shining, the ferry filled with people and out to sea it goes. The wind increases and the water splash up onto the ferry.

The tempo slows down already on the way on board and all seem to be pleased, yes, a calm like a soft blanket lays over the whole trip and its travellers.

Well arrived people walking pilot first, then cyclists, some moped riders and last the motorists off the ferry and a land on an island where calm is given, yes, anything else would be silly.
And see, there is someone you know and there is the beautiful fortress, the old wooden as well as the newly built houses all framed in the most beautiful archipelago nature one could ever imagine a sunny day in June, yes, and the two swans of course with their five nestlings.

Imagine; the sun shining, the ferry filled once again with people and out to sea it goes. Well on board on the ferry again the shoulders have dropped and the smile broaden just by being allowed a small part of this day in beautiful simplicity, thank you.


SATURDAY 15 APRIL CLOCK BLUE
Just when the outing was to be enjoyed the clock said quarter to two – which changed the plan.

On Saturdays at two the clock nearby starts to knell, as it has since immemorial times. A signal that the time has come to go home for the acquisition worker in a town built on islands.

Every Saturday at two, spring, summer, fall and winter, year after year, it knells like a weekly base. A fine, almost devotional moment, that only occurs once a week. A firm place in time to relate to, yes, even hold on to when existence seem unsure.

At Saturday at two,
the clock strikes you,
as the small clock blue,
shines on even more true.

Yes, when time seems to fly by so,
time stops and though your thinking sore
- there is hope evermore.

Clock knell - bring peace and hope galore.



SATURDAY 8 APRIL S E R E N I T Y
"Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought.

A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being, for such knowledge necessitates the understanding of others as the result of thought, and as he develops a right understanding, and sees more and more clearly the internal relations of things by the action of cause and effect, he ceases to fuss and fume and worry and grieve, and remains poised, steadfast, serene.

The calm man, having learned how to govern himself, knows how to adapt himself to others; and they, in turn, reverence his spiritual strength, and feel that they can learn from him and rely upon him. The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Even the ordinary trader will find his business prosperity increase as he develops a greater self-control and equanimity, for people will always prefer to deal with a man whose demeanor is equable.

The strong, calm man is always loved and revered. He is like a shade-giving tree in a thirsty land, or a sheltering rock in a storm. “Who does not love a tranquil heart, a sweet- tempered, balanced life? It does not matter whether it rains or shines, or what changes come to those possessing these blessings, for they are always sweet, serene, and calm. That exquisite poise of character which we call serenity is the last lesson of culture; it is the flowering of life, the fruitage of the soul. It is precious as wisdom, more to be desired than gold—yea, than even fine gold. How insignificant mere money-seeking looks in comparison with a serene life—a life that dwells in the ocean of Truth, beneath the waves, beyond the reach of the tempests, in the Eternal Calm!”

“How many people we know who sour their lives, who ruin all that is sweet and beautiful by explosive tempers, who destroy their poise of character, and make bad blood! It is a question whether the great majority of people do not ruin their lives and mar their happiness by lack of self-control. How few people we meet in life who are well balanced, who have that exquisite poise which is characteristic of the finished character!”

Yes, humanity surges with uncontrolled passion, is tumultuous with ungoverned grief, is blown about by anxiety and doubt. Only the wise man, only he whose thoughts are controlled and purified, makes the winds and the storms of the soul obey him.

Tempest-tossed souls, wherever you may be, under whatsoever conditions ye may live, know this—in the ocean of life the isles of Blessedness are smiling, and the sunny shore of your ideal awaits your coming. Keep your hands firmly upon the helm of thought. In the barque of your soul reclines the commanding Master; He does but sleep; wake Him. Self-control is strength; Right Thought is mastery; Calmness is power. Say unto your heart, “Peace be still!”

James Allen

Wish all a Happy Easter.





SATURDAY 1 APRIL FOCUS & IMAGINATION
Weakness of focus and poverty of imagination is holding all of us back. Strong focus and a wealth of imagination will put us back on track.




SATURDAY 25 MARCH MIND THE FERTILE GARDEN
Our mind is a fertile garden spot in which weeds will grow in abundance if seeds of more desirable crops are not sown therein.

One´s dream as a child surely was big, beautiful and brave. Our imagination did not have an end. We could be anything, do anything and create everything; and we did, in our imagination.

We played things and dreamed that we had all we ever wanted, whatever. We were firemen, musician, mother or father, author, police officer, artist, nurse, conductor and everything else we even knew we could become and we acted as if we already were.

Yes, we sow seeds of that desirable crop in our mind through our imagination and we acted as if our dream already was a fact.
Some forgot their dream as they grew older and some never stopped dreaming.

Regardless of where we are today our dream can take us further, yes, forward toward the dream we dream of.

Our mind is a fertile garden spot in which weeds will grow in abundance if seeds of more desirable crops are not sown therein and our dreams are worth sowing, all through life.



SILENCE BIRTH
SATURDAY 11 MARCH
An hour of silence birth, an hour of true worth. In its silent room we all bloom from month to month, year to year. The time for an hour of silence birth, brings the hour of true worth.



SATURDAY 18 FEBRUARY FAITH
"When you come to the edge of all the light that you know. And you are about to step into the darkness of the unknown. Faith is knowing one of two things will happen for you. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught how to fly."

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross