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Beth Schenck

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  • Genre: Jazz

    Location BROOKLYN, New York, US

    Profile Views: 20486

    Last Login: 5/14/2010

    Member Since 11/12/2006

    Website bethschenck.com

    Record Label Unknown Indie

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    Those who arrive at Thekla can see little of the city, beyond the plank fences, the sackcloth screens, the scaffoldings, the metal armatures, the wooden catwalks hanging from ropes or supported by sawhorses, the ladders, the trestles. If you ask, "Why is Thekla's construction taking such a long time?" the inhabitants continue hoisting sacks, lowering leaded strings, moving long brushes up and down, as they answer, "So that destruction cannot begin." And if asked whether they fear that, once the scaffoldings are removed, the city may begin to crumble and fall to pieces, they add hastily, in a whisper, "Not only the city." If, dissatisfied with the answers, someone puts his eye to a crack in a fence, he sees cranes pulling up other cranes, scaffoldings that embrace other scaffoldings, beams that prop up other beams. "What meaning does your construction have?" he asks. "What is the aim of a city under construction unless it is a city? Where is the plan you are following, the blueprint?" "We will show it to you as soon as the working day is over; we cannot interrupt our work now," they answer. Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say. "Invisible Cities" by Italo Calvino
  • Members

    New Record soon! with: Eivind Opsvik, bass Jeff Davis, drums Matt Wrobel, guitar Bill McHenry, tenor saxophone
  • Influences

    de Kooning, Kline, Still, Pollock, Rothko, Ernst, Italo Calvino, Murakami, Olena K Davis, Vladimir Horowitz, Glenn Gould, Blonde Redhead, Nels Cline
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  • Michael Ray

    Hello Beth Schenck.

    Is Your Week Productive?
    Are your Creative Juices Flowing?
    We Sure Hope So!!

    My Brother Stephen and I just Recorded a
    Brand New Song that we wrote
    Entitled "PIANO BLUES".

    It is the Root of What we Steve and I Do

    We Love Playing with Other Musicians, but
    Steve and I have Been Performing Together
    since the ages of 7 and 10. We Just Feel
    Comfortable Jamming Like this.Just Me
    and My Piano and Steve and His Drums.

    Beth Schenck, Please take a Listen and
    Comment us if You Like it. All of YOU
    Friends are so Faithful to Check out our
    Tracks, Over 10,400 plays this Week.
    My God We Appreciate YOU Soooo Much.

    Rock On! Life is GOOD!!!

    Your Friends,

    Michael Ray and My Brother Stephen.

    ..

    2 years ago
  • David Franks: Walkabout…

    After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem sung on MySpace...

    Poem cum song 5 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (see my Blog for details):
    STATE TO STATE

    (TUNE:

    C F G F
    C F G F
    C F G F
    C F G F
    F G F C
    F G F C
    F G F C
    C F F F)

    From Sydney Town,
    In uni. break,
    I drove out west
    To earnings make
    Onion picking,
    On the fields
    Of Echuca,
    That year’s yields.

    After day’s work,
    From Y.H.A.,
    A group of us
    Would not delay
    To walk on down
    To the dirt rim
    Of the Murray,
    For a cool swim.

    On one such day,
    I do declare,
    Some three of us
    Had a big dare
    To swim across,
    From state to state,
    The wide Murray -
    I took the bait.

    Yes, foolishly,
    I took the bait -
    A choice that I
    Would come to hate,
    For I almost
    Did drown that date,
    Making the swim
    From state to state.

    (C) David Franks 2003

    2 years ago
  • 4mx

    Great! tnx 4 add

    2 years ago
  • David Franks: Walkabout…

    After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem, & some songs, on myspace...
    Poem 187 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse
    (see my blog for details):  
    A SOUTH SHIELDS WALKABOUT - AUTUMN 2001 

    Out of the museum-and-gallery 
    (Wiser on Cookson and the local way), 
    Down Ocean Road with, to the right of me, 
    Its eateries and, left, neat places to stay; 
    Before, on either side, Marine Parks - 
    The southern-one a most beautiful place, 
    Teeming with moorhens, swans, grebes and mallards 
    In a small lake at a scenic-hill’s base. 

    Then (holding chips from the parade’s cafe 
    And, thus, a flock of gulls squawking above) 
    Onto the South Pier I made my way: 
    Seeing seaweed over rocks - like a glove - 
    And high-and-dry sands held from transgression 
    By growth of grass and the weaving of wood, 
    Plus, in the dim light of a sleepy sun, 
    Fishing boats returning to Tynemouth’s hood. 

    (C) David Franks 2003

    3 years ago
  • Studio Salta Vindarnas …


     

    Welcome to the instant of the life
    “Chanson Lyrique” (my songs)
    By and with me and my friend Sharon Selman, London
    Göran  S. Jonasson

    3 years ago
  • Zvukom

    Thanks for the add. Happy & creative New Year

    3 years ago
  • Luis Hernandes

    I wish you a great Christmas holidays!!!!
    Thanks
    Luis Hr

    3 years ago
  • David Franks: Walkabout…

    After you've finished here, you may like to hear this folk-carol on myspace...
    Poem 230 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse
    (see my blog for details): 
    CHRISTMAS SUNG SIMPLY

    As gospellers have said,
    Beneath signalling skies,
    On land dusty to tread,
    A trough in a stable
    Was the strawy first-bed
    Of a divine baby -
    The forgiving Godhead.

    A season for new hope -
    There then and here now;
    The yuletide of goodwill -
    There then and here now.

    In respect of this chance,
    Beneath bright or dark skies,
    Faith's the star that we glance
    Attending Christ's churches
    And trying to enhance,
    With singing and ritual,
    Our God-loving stance.

    A...

    (C) David Franks 2003

    3 years ago
  • S�bastien Paindestre

    Album TRIBUTE TO RADIOHEAD by Amnesiac quartet available on Itunes.com and cdmail.fr

    3 years ago
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Bio:

Those who arrive at Thekla can see little of the city, beyond the plank fences, the sackcloth screens, the scaffoldings, the metal armatures, the wooden catwalks hanging from ropes or supported by sawhorses, the ladders, the trestles. If you ask, "Why is Thekla's construction taking such a long time?" the inhabitants continue hoisting sacks, lowering leaded strings, moving long brushes up and down, as they answer, "So that destruction cannot begin." And if asked whether they fear that, once the scaffoldings are removed, the city may begin to crumble and fall to pieces, they add hastily, in a whisper, "Not only the city." If, dissatisfied with the answers, someone puts his eye to a crack in a fence, he sees cranes pulling up other cranes, scaffoldings that embrace other scaffoldings, beams that prop up other beams. "What meaning does your construction have?" he asks. "What is the aim of a city under construction unless it is a city? Where is the plan you are following, the blueprint?" "We will show it to you as soon as the working day is over; we cannot interrupt our work now," they answer. Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say. "Invisible Cities" by Italo Calvino

Member Since:

November 12, 2006

Members:

New Record soon! with: Eivind Opsvik, bass Jeff Davis, drums Matt Wrobel, guitar Bill McHenry, tenor saxophone

Influences:

de Kooning, Kline, Still, Pollock, Rothko, Ernst, Italo Calvino, Murakami, Olena K Davis, Vladimir Horowitz, Glenn Gould, Blonde Redhead, Nels Cline

Record Label:

Unknown Indie

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