where will it lead...... and till when

We musicians are being humiliated. Yes humiliated and we're doing nothing about it. Or we're trying but nothing is working out. Oh and please let me clarify what I meant with musicians according to dictionaries:

I'm not going to bore you with all the details..Only headlines!!!!

Music is a form of entertainment or other human activity that involves organized and audible sounds and silence. It is expressed in terms of pitch (which includes melody and harmony), rhythm (which includes tempo and meter), and the quality of sound (which includes timbre, articulation, dynamics, and texture).

A musician is a person who plays or composes music. Musicians can be classified by their role in creating or performing music:

• A singer (or vocalist) uses his or her voice as an instrument.
• An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument.
• Both singer and instrumentalist can be improvisers, who create real time music.
• Composers and songwriters write music.
• A conductor coordinates a musical ensemble.

According to Alfred Alexander, "a singer is a person of adequate musicality, who is gifted with a voice of such power and beauty that competent judges can recommend singing as a career"
i.e. please don't compare "musicians/singers" you see on T.V to us, we read notes and know music theory, not to mention if we know how to sing, we sing in tune and know what were doing, at least we know what a demihemisemiquaver means,!! They're not even worthy of being called artists (fanan/fananeh) why do WE waste our time in studying music theory, harmony, counterpoint, analysis, and conducting, this is only a short list of what we go through in our music knowledge process and many of us might not even succeed in them what makes those people better than us?? I guess we know: they can sing out of tune easily, they have money, and female singers can dance and sing out of tune at the same time!!! Great that's excellent now i understand and actually now I can see the future or music!! I wonder how Beethoven and Mozart didn't see it!! what a waste of time and talent if i may say!!!!

Our music, Our Jordan

The other day I was asked by a bunch of extremely important people about my field of study in university, I answered with all the pride in the world glittering in my eyes and voice “ I’m a 3rd year Music student Trumpet major at the National Music Conservatory.’’ And they all had the same reply music in Jordan and a Conservatory in AMMAN???
What are you talking about Hind this is nonsense don’t waste your time and your money go study something descent in a university!!!! People here don’t deserve art, they’ll never learn and never will understand and develop (3omorhom ma bet3alamo wala beseeru)
Oh hell yeah that’s correct and so true. If our beloved country is filled with people like you we’ll never be and never learn!! I calmly replied to defend everything I stand for and believe in my MUSIC: “What do you want me to study in university? English, marketing, business…etc our country is filled with those majors and graduates can’t find work; they don’t need me to add to their unemployed citizens list!!! If you only knew your country and culture well enough you’ll know what I’m doing in studying music.” Deep inside I thought why am I wasting time on such ignorant people with money in their pockets and nothing in their brains! But then it came back to me… those are exactly the people that need to understand that music isn’t what’s seen on T.V in video clips, music is in a sense a summation activity for the expression of values, and the psychology of a culture is exposed in its music. A great philosopher once said that “if you want to learn about the culture of a certain civilization listen to its music.”
Our Jordanian/Palestinian traditional music reveals a lot about our culture and life during the time this music has developed and evolved, but its our duty to keep it alive, unfortunately if we don’t two or three generations from now all of this music will be buried under the ground! Or God forbids history will repeat it self and what once happened with our knowledge and science will happen to our music, another civilization will come and steal it from us, and we‘ll actually do nothing about it and they say that its theirs and add it to their list of achievements and repertoire. People from all over the world come to learn Arabic music here in Jordan; they find it very difficult to understand and perform yet so nice and touching.

I’m not asking you to start buying Jordanian music and listen to it day and night, its only about knowing your Jordan, your culture, for its all in our music, teach it to your children and one day hopefully your children will teach it to theirs. This way we’ll keep it alive, clean, and maybe spread it every where, but most important of all keep it ours let it not loose its identity and be affected with what you’re calling now a days “music” for it’s a shame.
This is our music, our Jordan: yesterday, today, and Tomorrow……

HAPPY EID Y'ALL

Happy Eid to everybody all the best wishes to you and your families!!!

VACATION AT LAST!!!!! WOOOOOWWWW

MY CAR

STICK AROUND
I May need someone to BLAME

Thats a GOOD one

-A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory
-Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
-A pat on the back is just inches away from a kick in the butt.
-Light travels faster than sound.This is why...some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
-Nurses have a lot of patients.
-If you'll regret it in the morning.... sleep late !!
-If your nose runs and your feet smell...you're probably built upside down.

RAMADAN!!!

Honestly I thank God it only happens once a year!! People drive me crazy during this month and worst of all they drive around town like I don't know what!! I don't deny that this holy month adds a unique sense of warmth that bonds family and friends together, but it shouldn't affect your mood and life!
people are angry all the time screaming, yelling and then they tell you excuse me I'm fasting!!! People you don't fast for me or people around you leave it between you and God, that's the way it was and that's the way it'll stay!

I bet some of you (if you live in Amman- Jordan) saw a Silver Honda Civic that is hit on the right back corner with a sticker on top " Stick around I may need someone to blame" well if you did yeah that is MY CAR and the dude who hit me at 5.00PM said sorry I'm fasting and I could smell alcohol in his breath!! It was 5:20 when the police man came to do the legal traffic paper work when he told me "I have to go and break my fasting sorry I cant do that thing now wait for me at the station"..... The (excuse my French) ASS-HOLE made me stay till 10:30 in the station! WHY coz he wants to break his fasting for 4 hours!!!! What the hell was he eating for four hours!!! I hate peoples attitude in RAMADAN its no longer humane its something else! be careful people what you do to other people when you "fast"

Head lines

Well I guess everybody have a room in side their brain that they can lock their selves in and think for ever, or maybe even look at the past, remember your life, or even remember everything that has had a profound impression on you no matter how small it was!! For me when I got to this room I see sentences and words!!! All had or will have a part in forming my future and it makes me realize and remember actually that I do think and I do exist!! Interesting is what I've found the last time I entered..... Large sentences huge meanings, great words and massive affects:

**Do everything for the glory of God.
**Attitudes are caught not taught.
**lead, follow, or get out of the way.
**Music isn't a universal language its a universal form of expression.
**I'd rather be optimistic and a fool rather than pessimistic and right.
**life's a journey not a destination.

and many many more these might only be sentences to many people but for me I learnt at least one thing from every point..... Its funny how I cant remember any more but I'll always remember who taught me every thing about me, my life, what will I be, and what I am!!
Our Band Director Miss B. Johnson

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