Today is the first of January 2010. Like many of you, who are around my age, I recall being a kid thinking about the distant future. "2000!!! I'm going to be 22!!! I'll be OLD". Now, ten years after "D-day" and I still feel like a teenager.
My father, Joel Kass, had a birthday two weeks ago. Just a day before Christmas. For his birthday I wrote a short piece that I named "Regrets".
Why regrets? Like many of you, I was given a life that could lead in many different ways, depending on my choices. some of my choices, inevitably, carry regrets within them.
Happy birthday dad.
Happy new year to us all.
Ben Ben- this is your best piece yet..very nicely done! It washed away my regrets instead of reminding me of them....your melody has many deep moments of reflection...wishing you an amazing year, and happy belated b-day to abba! ox
Ben, you have done it again, this is perfection. You have managed to capture the essence of regret but in a way that it doesnt only hold the pain of regrets but also its acceptance in a certain way. Simply beautiful, thank you for this.
Thank you everyone for your wonderful comments! It is nice to know one can express ideas with music that words cannot speak. All of your insights were correct and it's such a pleasure to read what you all wrote.
I guess it is impossible to leave without regrets...and because of this it is possibile to leave within the possibilities..
I find it very tender. Thanks for sharing. :-)
Gorgeous piece brother...especially loved the strings. Thanks for sharing.
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