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This rendition of “Songbird” is a cover of the Fleetwood Mac song, closer to the style of Eva Cassidy’s version. This version combines the piano from the original and folk genre of Cassidy’s cover. The result is a light folk rendition with intense emotional depth and a little smoothness from soft cymbals and soprano saxophone. Keep reading for the original blog. Full story: The tenth track on my SoundCloud Playlist is "Songbird" by Annie Karto. This song is from Annie's CD, "Refuge" released in 2009 and was dedicated to her husband, David Karto. "Songbird" was written by Christine McVie and was featured on Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album in 1977. This song was later covered by Eva Cassidy and my arrangement for Annie is more like that version. The main accompaniment instruments…

“Danza de las Hachas” is the third of four movements from Joaquin Rodrigo’s “Fantasia para un gentilhombre,” a concerto for guitar and orchestra. This piece was arranged for Karen Marcello on the flute, with a twenty-piece chamber orchestra by orchestra.net in Prague, recorded in New York over video conference. Keep reading for the original blog. Full story: The seventh track on my SoundCloud Playlist is "Danza de las Hachas" by Karin Marcello. This recording was included on Karin Marcello's "Vision" CD, released in 2010.  Karin is a flutist and composer from Long Island. "Danza de las Hachas" is the third of four movements from Joaquin Rodrigo's "Fantasia para un gentilhombre," a concerto for guitar and orchestra.  Rodrigo's orchestration was for piccolo, flute, oboe, bassoon, trumpet, guitar and strings.  Karin asked me to…

Victoria Faiella’s version of War Pigs taps into middle eastern themes and instrumentations. These changes reflected the song’s lasting relevance when it was recorded in 2011, and expressed Faiella’s sorrow around the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Black Sabbath intro was replaced with floating middle eastern melodies.Keep reading for the original blog.Full story:The third track on my SoundCloud Playlist is "War Pigs" by Victoria Faiella.This can also be heard on YouTube:In her feature on Limelight's now extinct Song Clearance website, Victoria explained why we included a cover of Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" on her Wild Butterfly CD:The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were weighing heavily on my heart & mind. Like so many people, I too was often debating the issues with family and friends. One morning as I was having a cup of…

The goal of “In Mary’s Arms” was to put the listener at the “foot of the cross” in Jerusalem, in a cinematic style. This piece features solo duduk (a double reed instrument from Armenia, and in this case, a virtual one), and strings by the FAMES orchestra in Macedonia, recorded remotely through a video conference. Keep reading for the original blog. Full story: The second track on my SoundCloud Playlist is "In Mary's Arms" by Donna Cori Gibson. "In Mary's Arms" is from Donna's CD, The Way of the Cross.  In my blog about her song "She Was There," I presented some background information and details about the CD.  "In Mary's Arms" is about the thirteenth station, where Jesus' body is taken down from the cross.  This may be Donna's most moving song ever. The…