mikedesousa

Composed and performed by Mike de Sousa

Piano · Strings · Woodwind

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A Place Of Life We Sense

The idea of a garden is complex, yet so easily experienced...

I ponder on what defines a garden, the gardener, on our need and love of gardens, and my experience of them, near and far.

Two gardens have shaped me. The garden where I live in Southern England, and a garden in Tuscany, Italy where I spent three months in late summer and autumn...

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Enjoy the music together with accompanying artwork and my thoughts:

http://www.100artworks.today/IlGiardino.html

To discover more about Mike visit his site at:

www.mikedesousa.com

Composed and performed by Mike de Sousa

Piano Improvisation

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As I hear I become. For all the words I write, music needs no thought.

To be well: to be healthy in body, mind, and spirit.

Caring at its most beautiful is for something or for someone other than myself.

With music, if I am open, I hear, I feel, and I become.

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Enjoy the music together with accompanying artwork and my thoughts:

http://www.100artworks.today/Be Well.html

To discover more about Mike visit his site at:

www.mikedesousa.com

Composed and performed by Mike de Sousa

Solo Violin, Strings, Woodwind, Brass, and Piano.

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Tide: the rise and fall of sea; a change of state, physical or emotional; a period of time.

I ponder on the beauty of the rise and fall of water, our contact with the force of moon, the spin of earth, and pull of sun.

I think of how love can be as endless in its movement dependent on another, of how I feel as creature of the shore, by nature washed between the land and sea.

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Enjoy the music together with an accompanying artwork:

http://www.100artworks.today/RisingTide.html

To discover more about Mike visit his site at:

www.mikedesousa.com

For Piano, Strings, Oboe D'Amore, Bassoon, Piccolo, Trumpet, Woodwinds, and French Horns.

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The wren is a tiny bird and frequent visitor to my garden. As a child, my favourite coin was the farthing worth one quarter of a pre-decimal penny, and with a beautiful depiction of a wren on one side. That it was the lowest unit of currency that ceased to be used in the year of my birth made it all the more valuable.

The Rights of Living Things is a declaration that seeks to encourage thought about how we act with all kinds of life.

The music 'The Wren in Winter' supports the fifth article that asserts all life has the right to be regarded as important and potentially beneficial to the world.

http://www.therightsoflivingthings.earth/music.html

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Enjoy the music together with an accompanying poem and artwork:

http://www.100artworks.today/TheWrenInWinter.html

To discover more about Mike visit his site at:

www.mikedesousa.com

For strings, piano, oboe d'amore, bassoon, trumpet, and percussion.

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With Life, Love

Life, this moment of our here and now,
This place of all we ever are,
The time we share in this our touch of present near and far.
With peace revere this treasured place of sudden sound and light,
As once we play upon this earth with all that is with love unite.

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Enjoy the music together with my thoughts and the artwork:

http://www.100artworks.today/WithLifeLove.html

To discover more about Mike visit his site at:

www.mikedesousa.com