Twigs ~ Brown and white ~ Straight ~ Narrow ~ Against the ground ~ Pushing up stones ~ To lift and point ~ Twigs back ~ Up ~~ G. Stevens Here is a new Jazz Folks piece called “Twigs and Stones”. Another tune preparing for the vesper service this coming March. Melvana Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273) [...]
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Twigs and Stones
Posted in Notes on gigs and recordings, Random poetic nonsense, Uncategorized, tagged Twig on January 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Breathe
Posted in Notes on gigs and recordings, Random poetic nonsense on January 1, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Sit ~ Meditate ~ Play that horn ~ All night ~ Breathe ~ Deeply ~ Breathe ~ Breathe ~ Exhale ~ Sometimes it is the breath that is all there is……….so Exhale G. Stevens All I Was Doing Was Breathing By Mirabai (translated by Robert Bly) Something has reached out and taken in [...]
Still Playing, just not writing.
Posted in Notes on gigs and recordings, Uncategorized on December 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Something new? Here is some new material: Holy Crap! It has been a long time since I visited let alone wrote something for this site. So in lieu of a thoughtful insightful post here are a couple of new songs that I have been working on. Enjoy! Glenn “Reflections” is an instrumental piece I wrote anticipating my next [...]
Vespers service March 18
Posted in Notes on gigs and recordings on March 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“The Heart At Peace” A multi media event celebrating the mystic poets with music by Glenn Stevens. Don’t forget the free musical service with Glenn Stevens, Christopher Reba, Sarah Heath, and Lydia Smith on March 18th at the Unitarian Society of New Haven. This is a Friday night vespers service, part of the Unitarian Society’s [...]
The radio show was fun.
Posted in Notes on gigs and recordings on February 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Yes I have finally dug out from the mountain of snow and I’m back stirring the musical pot. We had a great time on Valerie’s radio show on WPKN on Tuesday February 15. The “Lucky Dogs” played a few tunes and chatted for about an hour. Thanks to Valerie for having us. Thanks to Jim [...]
Upcoming events
Posted in Notes on gigs and recordings on February 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We have been out of the picture lately, resting and digging out from the snow. Hope you all are well. I wanted to let you know of some music coming up in the next month or two. On Tuesday, February 15 around 5 PM, a few of the Jazz Folks crowd will be playing some [...]
Playing in Church
Posted in Notes on gigs and recordings, tagged church music, double bass, mandolin, Miles Davis, Music, percussion, Steve Reich, unitarian on October 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I am fortunate that my church has an adventurous music director. We have heard everything from Bach to Miles Davis to Steve Reich as part or our Sunday service. I recently read an article about how much church choirs are a part of the ministry. I am happy that our music director is adventurous enough [...]
