Terry Gomes: Blog & News

Dear Friends,
I have been away from music for awhile now due to family priorities, which have to come first. I’m slowly getting back into it.
I am in the process of trying out some new features for my website. It's not finished as of yet but I wanted to have you take a listen to a new song that I've added. When you open my homepage, a flash player is now installed there. It will instantly begin playing a rock instrumental version of the song I wrote for my school last year entitled, St. Anne Spirit. It’s short and sweet. I hope you like it. There are other songs on it as well and I plan to vary it from time to time.
I’m also hoping to get back to Youtube soon and this song will probably be the next one I add.
I hope all is well with you and yours.
Best,
Terry

It never fails to amaze me how few people notice the writers of music.It wasn't always this way. When we speak of famous composers -- Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Debussy, Stravinsky, and so on -- we consider them more important and relevant than those who interpret and perform their music. But we don't seem to do this with contemporary pop or rock music, especially when a singer is not the writer and the performer.Personally, I always try to focus my initial attention on the musical work itself and on the person who created it. For example, I’m more apt to say that I really like the descending bass line and the rising melody that Percy Mayfield wrote in “Hit the Road, Jack”. I’m not as apt to say that it’s a great song by Ray Charles. Why? Because Ray Charles didn’t write it. He was only an interpreter. Certainly a brilliant one, but still, an interpreter.In the case of the famous Christmas carol, “O Holy Night”, I might reflect upon how Adolphe [...]