| Frank Savidge On Music, Poetry and Life | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Marie and Me |
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| Â | Hello! My name is Frank Savidge.I live in London, England. I was born in 1942 but got married for the first time on 17th June 2006 to a sweet lady called Marie. We are both members of Major Road Baptist Church I am a musician there, playing electric guitar and keyboard. She sings beautifully so sometimes she sings solo or along with others with my accompaniment and occasionally I sing with her. For 8 years Marie led the choir at another church. When, through circumstances beyond her control, the choir there was disbanded, she moved on and came to Major Road, where she is very welcome, particularly by me! We both love Country music. I have loved it ever since I was a child and did not know that the songs I loved such as "My Heart Cries for You" came into the category of Country music. She got to love it when young by listening to American radio stations in her native St.Lucia. It was when each of us became aware that the other also loved this same music that we realised how compatible we were, although we had been attracted to each other before that. Country music was the straw that broke the camel's back in a very nice way. That was in August 2004. I proposed to her in the closing minutes of 2004 at a New Year's Eve party and we got engaged in front of the whole church on the 9th of January 2005, just after I, in my capacity as Church Secretary, had received her into membership. In May 2007 we had the privilege of broadcasting on The station can be heard in London on 94FM as well as internationally on their Website Towards the end of 2009 we purchased second hand a portable battery powered amplifier which has inputs for Marie's microphone and and my electro acoustic guitar. We can now sometimes be seen outside in East London doing hymns and Gospel songs. Marie finds singing therapeutic and I love playing. Another of my interests is Poetry, which I used to write. Consequently this site has a Poetry Page, which you can access from a link right at the bottom of this page. It includes a poem about Marie, written soon after we realised that we were in love with each other. I now have a page on Depression because my wife has suffered from this most of her life and I would like to try and help make life easier for depressed people by educating those who are not depressed and make it worse for those who are by their inappropriate reactions. There is a link also below to the depression page.But as far as this page is concerned I want to go back now to the theme of music. EXCITING NEW WAY OF LEARNING PIANO Before the advent of radio and television, computers, video games etc., the wooden piano in the home was an important part of family entertainment. The polyphonic music it produces gives it a great advantage over many other solo instruments. Right up to the present day there are entertainers who use it and it is still popular in the home, either in the same form or more sophisticated electronic versions. As a small boy, I liked to listen to the boogie woogie of Winifred Atwell and the party sound of Mrs Mills. If we look at the 1950s when Rock and Roll came in, despite the preponderance of guitar based groups, we heard Fats Domino, Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, playing piano along with their vocals. When I was at school, a boy named John Lill played for the hymns in our assembly. He was to become a famous classical pianist performing all round the world. Later on we heard on records pianists Russ Conway and Bobby Crush. As we know Elton John, another accomplished pianist, famously sang at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales. Today, my wife and I enjoy hearing on TV the anointed playing of evangelist Jimmy Swaggart, cousin to Jerry Lee Lewis. We non professionals who do play have varying amounts and areas of skill. My father only played on the black notes. My mother could play anything, provided the sheet music was in front of her. She could however only play slavishly according to the notes on the printed music. I cannot sight read music like her but can play tunes that I know by ear and improvise in a way that she could not. I can also, where necessary, use guitar chords in the music to guide me as to what to do with my left hand. Some of us would like to consolidate our skills to make us better all rounders whilst others would love the opportunity to learn to play but fear it would be too tedious. Wherever we come on that spectrum, there is an exciting and relatively inexpensive new course called Rocketpiano which I would like to bring to your attention. It can teach you right from scratch or hone the skills you already have to take you further on right up to professional standard if you wish. It uses helpful videos and sound files. To find out more, please click on the link. Click Here! If you wish, you can send me an If you have a Web site which you would like to submit to search engines, you can use the following service. free search engine submission service
Poetry Page Depression Page |
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