A new tune for piano arose in my head this week and I dedicated it to the people of Yola, a big city in North East Nigeria, because Yola was in the news with two suicide bomb attacks. Those people deserve our support and protection against terror as well as…
Critical republican patriot song I made in September 2014 for the celebration of 200 years Kingdom Of The Netherlands. Lyrics 1 O Holland is my little green land A lovely place to be With a big black Pete and a little dumb King And people that…
In 2012 when the financial crisis in Greece was fairly new, I wrote this song. The chorus is based on a Dutch saying “when the drink is in the man, the wisdom is in the can” (Als de drank is in de man, is de…
Thanks to The Great War Explained for posting this old Australian anti-war poem, written by W.R. Winspear and drawn by Claude Marquel from Sydney, issued during the anti-conscription campaign in 1917. When I read the poem, I couldn’t help getting a melody in my head and here it is. I hope you…
This song I found after I read about a young Catholic boy, Theodorus Schrama, from Hillegom, Holland, who went to Rome in 1867 to defend the Church against Garibaldi. He became a Papal Zouave and died a few months later at the age of eighteen. When Pope Pius IX called…
Did a little MuseScoring again tonight and called it “Dreaming Of Special Treatment” because of the story I just read about the hassle many people have to get their fragile goods safely at the other end when they fly over.
Here’s a new little tune, documented and exported to mp3 using MuseScore. Great free software and the far more intuitive successor of my good old Melody Assistant. At first my idea for the title was “The Crazy King Of Thailand”, but I decided not to risk an imprisonment of…
This morning I had to go up early for to go out cycling with my friends, but when I looked out the window and I saw the rain, I got an instant depression and went back to bed. Because of my new telephone, I couldn’t…
Story in Dutch about an old Indian who teaches his grandson about good and bad using the image of two fighting wolves In zijn karakteristieke houding zit de oude wijze indiaan voor de ingang van zijn wigwam. Iets verderop doet zijn kleinzoon een wolf na….
Today, it’s Good Friday 2015. This day one thousand and one years ago, is said to be a turning point in Irish history, because Brian Boru, the first High King of all Ireland, kicked the Viking invaders out during a terrible battle on the Irish East…