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Anita Brown: Guestbook
steve finkelstein
July 30, 2008
anita-
what a pleasure checkin out your band last night at cachaca. your music is thick and juicy, layered, deep, serious, and demanding. you've definitely got your own voice. being a nature boy, i especcially loved the "waves" at the end of 27 east...and the way you conducted them...very realistic.
you write with great use of dynamics- what a pleasure it must be to have a band that can actually PLAY those dynamics!
great show- brava!!!
Rebecca
July 17, 2008
Congrats on recent press!
Pat Sullivan
July 3, 2008
Hi, Anita,
It was a pleasure meeting you this past weekend at David and Jackie's wedding. I'm enjoying reading all about you! I've not had time to listen to the music yet, but will log on later tonight or tomorrow. I look forward to listening!! Will email you again soon.
Take care,
Pat (David's aunt)
Kostroff Family
June 19, 2008
Anita has been teaching our daughter Piano for 3 years, and Clarinet for 1. She looks forward to Tuesday's and her lesson and her conversations with Anita. She has always loved music, but Anita brings in out in her. Anita make her work, and she makes sure she takes it seriously, which I think makes Anita a good teacher. We look forward to another year starting in September.
Alex Gittelman
June 16, 2008
Hey Anita! I really enjoyed your master class. I feel like I learned a lot about being a musician as well as ideas for composing. I can't wait for the next class and to get into more of your music and new thoughts on writing music. Also, the Vanguard trip afterwards was an incredible experience! I'm glad that we were able to hear your piece performed...Oatts' solo was ridiculous and it was a great work of art. Can't wait for the next master class! I'll probably see you tonight at the Vanguard.
Marsha Bowe
June 7, 2008
Hi Anita!
I just wanted to let you know that I REALLY enjoyed the lesson/lecture session this past Monday! It definitely helped me as an aspiring writer to really dig into your own original (and very eclectic!) tunes and observe your techniques, transitions, musicality, etc. etc. I've been working your assignment with a huge sense of clarity this week. Not only that, but on the drive back home to Philadelphia, Alex and I talked about how your teaching us "composition" makes sense-- it's creative AND methodical...
We are looking forward to more sessions in the future for sure... I'd recommend them to everyone :). I hope others join next time if they're not on summer vacation!
P.S. It was also definitely an honor to be present at the Vanguard on Monday when they performed your piece written for Oatts to play. I think everyone also definitely felt the spirit of Dennis Irwin in the room. It was great to see one of my teachers conducting it and the other teachers playing it. Definitely surreal. I'm definitely blessed to be able to study with you guys.
Thanks again for everything this week, see you next lesson! :)
~Marsha
Matthew Makuch
June 4, 2008
Hi Anita, I think your music really great. What is your favorite song that you made?
Curt Jacques
May 28, 2008
Does "the little farm boy from Vermont next door on Gemini Circle mean anything to you?...................... Can't belive I stumbled across your website! What an accomplishment you have become! I have listened to a few of your clips and WOW! ...................
Curt
Anita Brown
May 12, 2008
Timmy,
You are such a sweetheart! Thanks for chiming in on that one!
Perhaps what we could say to Jack is, "1...2...3...WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!"
LOL
--AB
Tim Horner
May 11, 2008
Well Anita Brown ,
All I can say about this cat Jack that says your writing is boring him to sleep is for Jack to go ahead and sleep . That's right , just sleep while the rest of us dig the music and enjoy what life and great musicians like Anita have to offer .
My dear , keep writing your beautiful music . I love it and you . Peace and Thank You so Much for You !!!
Timmy
Anita Brown
May 1, 2008
Please send communications regarding NJ IAJE State Jazz Band Finals via e-mail to jlesser@njiaje.org. Comments regarding same made to this guestbook will be deleted. Your comments will be answered as swiftly as possible.
Thank you.
Anita Brown
Anita Brown
April 28, 2008
Dear Jack,
Thank you for your feedback. I am happy that you got some rest while listening to my sound clips.
In fact, I am not trying to "take music in another direction." I aspire only to express myself in my chosen genre. Some will like it, some will not know enough to understand it. This was also the case with Stravinsky, so your comment reminds me that I'm in good company. Thank you!
If you do not like my music, I would prefer you not listen to it, as I wouldn't want to do anything to make you unhappy.
Your response is, however, fascinating. As you can see from the other comments on my guestbook, there is a multitude that does not share your opinion.
I wish you the best of luck in composing and producing your music for jazz orchestra. When your clips are up please let me know.
All the best,
Anita Brown
Jack McNeal
April 28, 2008
Anita- Your music is very boring. I fell asleep while listening to your MP3 files. I understand that you are trying to take jazz into a new direction, but for the sake of the jazz, please turn back!
LauRha
March 24, 2008
Beautiful Site Beautiful Woman....
Beautiful Maker of Magic!!! Thank God for souls like you!!!! Love Rha
aisha ahmad
March 22, 2008
hi miss brown its me aisha ahmad from last year i miss you so much umm if you dont remember i helped you with ur voice at the end oof the year and i have a sqeaky voice miss you
Joyce Lyons
January 25, 2008
Anita,
It was a great meeting you at the Nola party on Monday night. Loved your music as well!
Would love to chat more as you mentioned you were looking for a mezzo for that arrangement!
(Home) 860 927 4666
(Cell) 917 282 9438
All the best,
Joyce Lyons
Tom Bowes
January 10, 2008
'Nita Brown... YOU are GOOD!
Darren Denman
January 10, 2008
You are one of my favorite composers of all time. Next to Debussy, Gil Evans, and Frank Zappa. Never stop writing and put a new cd as soon as you can! Thanks for all of your help with college.
Darren
George Brown
January 8, 2008
Anita,
I finally got around to looking at your entire web site. Very Impressive!!
Hope you have enjoyed your college teaching experience the past year. Colleges need teachers with real world experiences. You certainly have them.
Best wishes for a Happy and musical New Year. Look forward to seeing you again in the near future.
George Ann
Ann St. Cyr
January 5, 2008
Thanks I listened to the mp3 player. /////very nice
Rae-Ann Murphy
January 2, 2008
Hi Anita!!!
I just wanted to say thank you for coming out to Vegas and putting the inspiration towards music back in me.
We played together at the LVA Jazz Winter concert, and Jo Belle sang your tune. I was the bari player infatuated with you, your composing, and everything you had to say. I felt that I learned a great deal from you, and in playing with you conducting I feel that I grew as a player.
So thank you!
brian kinder
December 4, 2007
Jack Goodwin gave me your web site I have been a fan ofv your fathers for many many years and now there is a new release to obtain and your site to nog onto Saturnally Brian Kinder
Gene Weed
November 28, 2007
Wonderful works. Keep the Big Bands alive Anita
Arvin Levine
November 20, 2007
Met at Fairlawn Band -- Trumpet
Just saying hi!
Joe Cox
November 18, 2007
Buena suerte con la musica suya, y, recuerdes: No hay rosas sin espinas.
Jose
donjose2@gmail.com
Rich Eldridge
November 15, 2007
Hi Anita, played our last rehearsal with you last night with the Fairlawn Diamond Jubilee Band. It was an honor and privilege to get to know and work with you. I am really impressed with you knowledge and accomplishments in the music world.
Rich Eldridge/1st Alto/Diamond Jubilee Band/ Fairlawn, N.J.
Bob Brown
November 10, 2007
Anita, my son both took some time and listened to some of your music, we both liked the big band sound, keep up the great work..Bob
margaret Bernhard Lyons
October 20, 2007
hi anita, I was looking through classmates.com & wanted to look you up. I was visiting andover in may & went by your old house. I am very proud of your accomplishments. I am an artist in new mexico.,married no chidren.Love your music very soothing! hope to hear from you margaret
Al Tatarunis
October 8, 2007
Hi:
After reading your web page you don't have to write and tell ne what you're doing.
Dr. Al Tatarunis
Dean Chongris
October 5, 2007
Anita! I am so proud of you!!
I can't believe it took me this long to find you.
You look great and you look so happy. Good luck to you. Love Dean
Mark Tonelli
October 5, 2007
Website looks great! Hopefully see you soon.
Best,
Mark
ann
September 25, 2007
Great web-site laShada!
tag.
Bill Mobley
August 29, 2007
hi bebebe my wife ad I want to have you over for dinner sometime..............what do you think? I think we could dream up something great......
Richard
May 31, 2007
Hello, I love your site! You might remember me from coming to my school and teaching everyone how to become a composer just recently.
Mrs. McConnell's Class
May 30, 2007
Thanks for teaching us. You ROCK OUR SOX!
Julia, Thalia, Melanie, Lucy, A.J., Richard, Donald, Altin, Joey, Andy, Dylan, MacKenzie, Kristen, William, Joseph, Nick, Mirella, Dana, Rebecca.
Mrs. Bell's Class
May 29, 2007
Thank you for coming to our school, and for teaching us how to compose great music.
From, Danielle, Lexi, Roberto, Eric,Jon, Alexis, Megan, Nick, Don, Jack, Anthony, Jessie, Carly, Danielle, Martha, Ben, Natalie, Stephanie, Naba, Edrion.
Mala Waldron
March 2, 2007
Hi Anita,
I wanted to let you know I was at your IAJE performance in January. You & your band were amazing! Your compositions came off with such passion and great emotion - I was deeply touched. Sorry I wasn't able to stick around at the end to congratulate you in person. Sending best wishes & hugs - Always, Mala.
John Blair
January 31, 2007
Anita,
Still basking in the glow from your successful perfromance at IAJE??
Congrats on another great performance. Wonderful energy...talk to you soon
Be cool,
The Shadow
Connie Crothers
January 25, 2007
Your concert at the IAJE Conference was really great. Everything came together. Your compositions were outstanding and the musicians in the band obviously inspired. You were dynamite. And the room was packed. It was one of those great moments. I was thrilled to be there.
Bart Noorman
January 18, 2007
Dear miss Brown,
At the IAJE 2007 I joined your clinic, bought your cd and listened to you concert. I was the guy who asked you about the chaconne bass.
I want to let you know that your music touches me deeply. At the concert I couldn't keep my tears at all songs except for the last one. When I played your cd at home the effect was similar, especially at the Shifting tides of Montauk. I listened together with my girlfriend (also a music lover) to The lighthouse. We simply had to stop the cd to take a break after hearing such intens concentration and power.
There is something in your way of using harmony and instrumentation that is really special. I hope when your new album is coming out you will let me know, because I'll buy it unheard.
Your orchestra deserves many complements as well. You simply work with excellent players. I'm a trumpeter myself. Those notes from your lead player as well as from the soloist evoke my deepest respect...
I also like the fact that the music is recorded without overdubs. These days in studios everything can be fixed, but what we hear here is honest.
Keep on writing!
Best regards,
Bart Noorman
Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Dr. Jeffrey Kunkel
January 16, 2007
As always, great to see you at IAJE. As much as I enjoyed your clinic on "The Lighthouse", your concert blew me away even more. Congrats to your band. It was definitely one of the highlights of the conference in terms of performances for me. The musicc really came to life, representing a great variety of emotions. You are quickly becoming a master of tension and release, and after all, what more is there to great music?
JK
Jack Cortner
January 15, 2007
Anita,
Congratulations on a terrific concert Saturday. I wasn't able to stop by after the concert so I'm sending this email. It was interesting to hear your band live...as good as the recording is, it doesn't convey the intensity and the "wall of sound" the band delivers in the big tutti sections. And, much to my chagrin, on the end of "27 East" where I thought you had dialed in a recording of waves breaking on shore, I see (and hear) the players blowing through their horns with fluttering valves, etc. Obviously, I don't always listen as closely as I should.
I like the way the concert started, developed and ended...I think they call this good programming. Whatever you're doing Anita, keep on doing it.
All the best,
Jack
Tony Hyde
January 15, 2007
You have a wonderful concept and ability to "tell a story" with your music. Full of rich textures, energy and spiraling harmonies. It is very evocative music and it is very rewarding for the listener. I came away feeling very uplifted and content with the world. What more could you ask of one's music?
Dr. Judith Schlesinger
January 15, 2007
It's no coincidence that your Web site is the color of passion. Watching you conduct your gorgeous music is to witness the ultimate artistic fulfillment: highly personal, completely original, and intensely joyful.
Onward and upward, kiddo! BRAVA!!
Rebecca Monroe
January 10, 2007
Looks great - you've really added alot to this - love your "header" drawing of you conducting, too.
See/hear you soon.
Philomena Satchell
December 13, 2006
You are a very talent young lady and wish you all the best and more success in your career.
Jack Cortner
December 2, 2006
Anita,
You have an authentic and original voice in big band jazz.
Congratulations on your ASCAP award. Sometimes the good guys win!
denise (liszewski) young
November 30, 2006
hi anita!
loved the web-site. You did a great job putting it together-very informative.
loved the fact that you could listen to excerpts from your album (oops CD!!)you are an extremely talented artist that I am proud to know, love and call my true friend.
stay well and keep smilin!
luv ya denise :o)
Natasha Padilla
November 27, 2006
Intelligent, uncompromising music from a talented, exacting woman overflowing with passion for her art. Music = Life = Anita Brown. Best of luck to you always!
Maggie Patterson
November 26, 2006
Hi! I like your site a lot, especially the photos. I remember the summer you were choosing a cover for that album, I was taking piano lessons from you then. By the way, Mom loves the picture on the postcard you gave me.
--Maggie
Andrew Dark
November 26, 2006
Delightful as you are!
Jackie Gaspard
November 22, 2006
Anita-
I LOVE the website!! Everything looks great. Congratulations and keep moving foward with your dreams!!
XOXO-
Jackie
Rich Germaine
November 11, 2006
Hey Anita !!...I bought 27 East last year and still blast it around the house !! You GO GIRL !! How's your Dad and Mom?...We moved to Denver for a new job in May and love it here. My kids play Piano,guitar, bass and drums. I have 3 boys, Ricky, 14, Aaron 12, and Jesse 8. I still play Trumpet, mainly in church. I also play guitar, bass and drums on my worship team. When's the new CD comin' out? Ever gig out west?
We will try and see you when we visit the fam in NY...Old friend, Rich Germaine
JARED SIMON
November 9, 2006
Hi you're right next to me ahahah kool trumpet lesson today!
Ann St. Cyr
November 7, 2006
Again, Congratulations I am so proud of you.
Brenda Martenson
November 7, 2006
Hi Anita!
Congratulations! Awesome web site. I love the pictures.
xoxo
Brenda
Dr. Al Tatarunis
November 6, 2006
Great web site. 27 East has gotten a rave and a thumbs up from my retired musician friends - some from guys who played with your dad when you lived in the Andover area.
Linda & Michael McKenzie
November 5, 2006
Way to go girl !! We are proud of you !! Love Linda
Dave Frank
October 17, 2006
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Kris Hutchigs
October 14, 2006
I hadn't heard your music before -- it's terrific!
Matt Rappaport
October 13, 2006
This is great.
Robin Hutchings
October 9, 2006
Unbelieveable!! Not only in your accomplishments, but in the way you pass on the love of music to so many!!
Fancy Nancy
October 7, 2006
Anita Banita,
Web site is awesome!! You Rock!
I still can't "contoncentrate"
I love Garfield with legs!!
Hugs
Karen Bartholomew
September 23, 2006
Love the pics! The site looks terrific. Best of luck with your endeavors. XO, Karen
Salshutz Family
September 22, 2006
We love the website. See you Friday.
Tim Horner
September 20, 2006
Yummy !!!!!!!
Nick Zagoreos
September 18, 2006
Wow!!! Very impressed. Great website. I hope to catch up with you soon. Maybe you should organise a gig in London????
Chris McNulty
September 17, 2006
You are too clever!! This looks great....I am out on the road, and back at the end of next week, sorry not had time to re-connect, but hope to soon - No time to do anything but post production on Whispers the Heart release which came out this week. Will send you a copy soon. Very glad indeed to hear/see that things are going so well. Very best of luck, mon ami!
Carol Buchanan (your cuz)
September 17, 2006
Great site! Congratulations my dear. It seems, at least for you and I, the older we get the better we get and know what we want. I will write you soon to share with you.
Love ya cuz,
Carol
Andy Campbell
September 17, 2006
Hi Anita -
Nice web site! Way to go!
Rock on with your bad self...
Andy
louis chugranis
September 17, 2006
anita,
i want to sing with you sometime
did i tell you i traded fours with donald byrd for at 4 minutes?
lou
Mark Wechsler
September 17, 2006
Brown,
Congratulations, website looks good.
Good luck with it.
Love ya, Wechsler
Mala Waldron
September 17, 2006
Hey Anita,
Congratulations on the new website! I'm so happy to see things are going well with you & your music. Your compositions are wonderful. They evoke the most vivid pictures -- wow. I honestly love all the audio clips you've posted here. If absolutely pressed to pick a favorite, it would probably be between "Alexander's Lullaby Waltz" or "27 East." But as they say -- it's ALL good :-) I'm glad we've reconnected. Best wishes with everything. I look forward to catching you in concert ... hopefully soon!
luis D. Bonilla
September 17, 2006
Great looking site, Anita. Glad to see everything is moving forward as planned. I love the pics with the composing kids! Big kiss and hope to see you soon.