tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78047032117147007362011-11-02T12:48:21.971-05:00Some musings on selected songs written by me, "Annie in Austin", performed by "Annie" and her friends and with YouTubes made by my husband "Philo in Austin". These songs are copyrighted.Annie in Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14662139490401110432noreply@blogger.comBlogger91100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804703211714700736.post-27897962261596692542010-04-04T23:31:00.006-05:002010-04-04T23:59:05.960-05:00

A musical about gardening and Austin needs a song about wildflowers! This song is about wildflowers and is dedicated to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. It started when our flag flew at half-mast back in July 2007, written as a little farewell to Lady Bird - just two verses saying 'Adieu' to the inspiration and founder of this remarkable place. Then the verse became a song... one that

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The character named June gets this song - one I wrote in 2004 and put on YouTube in spring 2008. How could there be a musical play about gardening in Texas without at least one song that mentions deer? The genus Salvia deserves its own song - their non-sweet fragrance may keep them ranked as second rate for cut flowers inside but in the garden they guard and grow.This song is not about the Salvia

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More than a year ago I decided to add some dramatic tension by putting character Caroline through a breakup in late fall, giving her the opportunity to sing a very sad song as she faced Christmas without her love, and giving me the opportunity of writing a very sad song for her to sing. If this were part of the play on a stage it would be Caroline's song, and it would be about a broken romance.

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Although it's just me singing for this video, the song "My Austin Entomologist" would belong to a character named Loralynn in the play. In my imagination she's like some of Marilyn Monroe's characters - every male is a potential target, and while sometimes appearing to be a dumb blonde, when she allows herself to pursue knowledge as well as romance, the results can be surprising.This copyrighted

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I want to go to the water..... go to the ponds and to the streams..."The Pond Song" is meant for the hot days of summer, when humans and wildlife crave the many man-made ponds and streams that dot the Austin landscape.The Roots In Austin characters to whom this song belongs are a mature couple who are both gardeners. It would work well if they sang at least the final refrain together. I haven't

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"I Don't Want to Live In Texas When It's May" is a family collaboration - I wrote a poem which became lyrics once my son Ted set them to music. For the video the instruments are all played by Ted, Diane is in charge of images and your blogger "Annie in Austin" is the singer.But for my play Roots In Austin this song belongs to the character Caroline.I don't want to be in Texas when it's May ... no

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Dinah, the character who sings "Arizona Ash", also gets to sing "Spinning, Spinning, Spinning Underneath the Christmas Tree" - one of the Christmas songs I wrote for the play Roots in Austin.It's a sweet and simple tune about a pleasant Austin custom. Several generations of Austinites have gone to Zilker Park in the days before Christmas to spin themselves dizzy under a Christmas tree made from

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The song "Arizona Ash" was written soon after we moved to a house with 3 of these aging trees in the front yard.For Roots In Austin, this is one of the songs I've assigned to a mellow character named Dinah, a woman who grew up in Austin, left for a few years but once she realized she couldn't live anywhere else it was time to return. She was a kid when these trees first became popular and

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"A Transplantable Rose" isn't the first song that I wrote but as a tale of an Illinois-to-Texas gardener it seemed suitable as a name for my main blog, slightly changed to The Transplantable Rose.The character who sings this song is may have come from Illinois, but she's not me and a job was not the reason for the move. In the play, Caroline comes to Austin hoping for a new and different life

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