[Menvi-discuss] Someone wrote a short memoir about me!

[Sonja Biggs]

Chela, I would love to post your story on my personal website. May I? It is written so well and the tears were flowing as I could relate to every word, emotion, and thought felt by your instructor. I have had students who have touched me in a similar way. 

Sonja Biggs, MA, TVI, COMS
Vista Center for the Blind & Visually Impaired
2470 El Camino Real, Suite 107
Palo Alto, CA  94306
650-833-9766

"Dream the impossible dream...then live it!" --Brandon Keith Biggs, Age 19, Blind Performer, LCA-CRB1

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From: menvi-discuss-bounces at menvi.org [menvi-discuss-bounces at menvi.org] On Behalf Of Chela Robles [cdrobles693 at gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 8:19 AM
To: This is for discussing music and braille literacy
Subject: Re: [Menvi-discuss] Someone wrote a short memoir about me!

My facebook friend Doug Sprei is going to post that story with the
gramatical errors corrected by me, to Learning Ally's Blog see my
instructor way back when wants it to go viral, then once someone
actually meets me, and asks me to play that song if requested to do
so, he wants to be the first to know.

On 7/23/11, Bill <billlist1 at comcast.net> wrote:
> It was not until tonight that I was able to take the time to read this
> memoir.  It was well worth the time.
> This is a beautiful story which is beautifully written.
>
> Turns out that I too love that song, "I Can't Get Started with You",  and
> have performed it with a local bigband here a number of times.  But that's a
> different closing verse than I sang.  I took my lyrics from a record of
> Bunny Berrigan singing and playing the song.  I think the final verse was
> something like:
>
> I've been consulted by Franklin D.
> Greta Garbo has had me to tea.
> Still, I'm broken-hearted,
> 'Cause I can't get started with you.
>
> But mainly this wonderful story made me aware of how blessed I have been by
> teachers like this author.  They gave me gifts at a time when I did not even
> know I was being gifted.  They did their work because they loved me and
> loved doing their work.  What a precious thing it is to read about someone
> who did the work and lived to savor the fruit of his labors.  To quote
> another lyric from one of my other favorite trumpet players: "What a
> wonderful world!"
>
> You go, Chela!
>
> Bill
>
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> [mailto:menvi-discuss-bounces at menvi.org] On Behalf Of Chela Robles
> Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 5:57 PM
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> Subject: [Menvi-discuss] Someone wrote a short memoir about me!
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> Here is something someone wrote about me it is awesome and we keep in touch!
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"To me, music that breaks your heart is the music that stays with you
forever. It's one thing to be melancholy and one thing to be sophisticated,
but when you get the two of them together in a way people can relate to,
then I think you're on to something. You want the sophistication to lie in
the purity of the sound, the beauty of the arrangements, and the quality of
the performances."-Trumpeter Chris Botti
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