“The best creative endeavor tells a story that becomes another’s experience, and in so doing, reveals the universal through the particular. This experience can move, provoke, and inspire in ways that strengthen our most fundamental connections to each other and ourselves- to that most true and wild nature of our hearts.
Maxim Langstaff
In The Raven’s Shadow Novel Prologue
Equinox I never knew my grandfather until he was dead. Today I do. He didn’t take his secrets with him. He left them for me. My name is Mallory Pingree. The story I tell is a strange one. I find myself doubting what I know now to be true. I suppose as long as it made sense it didn’t matter. I simply needed to believe what I thought I knew. I understand now the puzzle
Wildlife Conservation Magazine
Wildlife Conservation Magazine – September/October John Denver’s voice–and face–were everywhere in the ’70s, when the back-to-nature movement became mainstream. Today, the pop music superstar works harder than ever, spreading the conservation ethic. At 49, John Denver is no longer America’s “Country Boy.” Along with the environmental movement that he gave his voice to, John Denver has grown up. Though he is one of the five most successful recording artists ever, the private Denver contradicts the
The Soundtrack Of Our Lives – Simple Gifts – Excerpt
Chapter One Excerpts: SIMPLE GIFTS America was an untrammeled place, a land of virgin forests and high-mountain peaks whose mirror lakes reflected back the heavens. It was place where wild rivers tumbled to the sea-. It was a place of flowing prairies and hidden valleys, a place of miraculous abundance. This was a new world- a world whose music was a symphony of natural sounds heard in the rhythmic drumming of the Ivory Billed Woodpecker,
The Wildlife Concert – Liner Notes
The week of February 20 at Sony Music Studios was unlike any other. Although film and music history had often been made at the legendary studio complex (the former Fox Movietone Studios), this was the first time a double “live” CD, two-hour television special and home video had ever been undertaken in a single session. It simply hadn’t been done. The demands such a project would put on an artist made the idea utterly ridiculous.
Editorial Philadelphia Inquirer (Syndicated Nationwide)
John Denver was a personal friend. As one of his creative collaborators, and the Co-Creator and Executive Producer of his last completed, original work in both television and music, The Wildlife Concert,(1995) and The Best of John Denver Live,(1997) I often heard that John Denver’s music was no longer “hip”. John Denver’s songs never were “hip”. They are timeless. In an era obsessed with throw away music and pop stars, John Denver traveled a different road, and
Written from Max’s Interview with Joni Mitchell
ON LEARNING TO PLAY MUSIC When I was a child we didn’t have a lot of records, but my father was a trumpet teacher, and he played in small local swing bands. My mother loved nocturnes, so she had “Clair de Lune” and “Moonlight Sonata* and every romantic piano piece. Then there was the radio, which was pretty mixed broadcasting at that time. There was a lot of country and western music. I didn’t really
