“Love at first sight” is what I dare to say you feel when you watch and listen to Rachel Flowers interpreting this excerpt from “Memoirs of an officer and a gentleman”. This music was written by Keith Emerson back in the 70’s for the album Love Beach by Emerson, Lake & Palmer. And the title of that excerpt [...]
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Rachel studies at the Hueneme High School in Oxnard. They are raising funds to help Rachel’s family out. If you care to help them out, please e-mail the family atrachelflowersangeles@gmail.com. This video was recorded by FoxLA yesterday at Rachel’s house:
Teen Prodigy’s Musical Instruments Stolen: MyFoxLA.com Michael Thallium Alice Herz-Sommer is a 107 year old lady with an extraordinary optimism. She was a prisoner on a German camp during the II World War and music helped her survive the holocaust and kept her alive over all these years. “Alice dancing under the gallows” is the title of a documentary on her life. On this [...] Today is the International Women´s Day and my best wishes go to you all women in the World. Below you can watch and listen to some videos of some friends of mine who inspire me because of who they are, their dedication and talents: Rachel Flowers, from California. Mónica Monasterio, Argentinian living in Madrid. Robyn Stapleton, from Scotland. “Stella”, [...] I feel so much respect for who she is and what she does… Here you can see Rachel Flowers playing with Arturo Sandoval and some other great musicians. Don´t miss the end when Arturo calls her name and she has an standing ovation from the audience. What a girl! Thanks to Steve Brant for the video. Michael [...] (Text originally written in Spanish by orchestra conductor Victor Morales. The fact that our present Spanish music educational system includes the orchestra as part of the curriculum has allowed hundreds of young music students to gain access to this activity, essential for the personal development, which can turn into their [...] Today I would like to congratulate Rachel Flowers for all the efforts she made to achieve one of her dreams: to win the Ventura Music Festival Jazz Student Competition 2011. Rachel is a musical prodigy, but there is a lot of hard work and dedication to music behind every performance of hers. Very early this [...] Just a couple of weeks ago, one of Günter Raphael’s granddaughters surprised me with a really nice present: a CD with symphonies by German composer Günter Raphael (1903-1960). I had never heard of him before. Raphael died in 1960, forgotten by most people. I was surprised twice, namely: I got to know about [...] Hello Friends and Fans of Rachel Flowers!
We have lots of very exciting news to report – and I’ll begin with the [...] Rachel Flowers is blind. She learnt to play piano by ear since she was two years old (presently she is 17). Then she started to teach flute herself when she was around 10, but soon her mom thought it would be wise for her to learn how to read music, that is, to be music [...] |
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