Sunday, August 19, 2018

Music, Music, Music

Fustrated by have to write and rewrite her musical compositions, Fio at some time started working on a plan for a music typewriter. There must be a market for something like this, but Fiorella can't quite decipher her scribblings.
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Did Fiorella ever tell you that at one time she taught music to children, voice to adults, soloed in church and at a few weddings, and directed a women's chorus?
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Older son's godmother was Fiorella's voice teacher, Edra Gustafson, whom Fio wrote about in the Austin newspaper.
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Fiorella was a soprano and her brother, who also studied with Mrs. Gus, was a tenor. Fio's older son has a very good voice and also plays the piano and guitar. Younger son is a karaoke standout. Daughter sang professionally for a while. Fio is thinking it's in the family. Husbands' and Fio's parents were musical. Husband's mother played the piano and his father played the ukelele. Both of Fiorella's parents had good voices and liked to sing. Her mother usually took a harmony line in the times when the family sang on their front porch in the evening.
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Fio would still be singing if she hadn't developed essential tremor in the vocal chords. On the other hand, that would mean she'd be pulled in more directions that she already is.

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