{"id":11014,"date":"2014-06-02T21:57:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T01:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=11014"},"modified":"2014-06-02T21:57:47","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T01:57:47","slug":"monday-night-clear-melodic-tone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2014\/06\/02\/monday-night-clear-melodic-tone\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday night &#8211; Clear Melodic Tone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_9817.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>This morning was the Mount Mansfield Union High school Awards ceremony. and just as in the last 7 years, we awarded the <a href=\"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/?page_id=31\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Cohn Musical Soul Award .<\/a>\u00a0 ( i came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevendaysvt.com\/vermont\/wish-you-were-here\/Content?oid=2132686\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a> about Sam and his music from 2007)<\/p>\n<p>Our Sam loved music.. He was as happy playing head banging music on the drums as he was playing Ibeniz on his classical guitar.\u00a0 (here&#8217;s Sma&#8217;s guitar teacher James playing that piece at Sam&#8217;s memorial .. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samstones.org\/music\/05%20Asturias.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">take a listen<\/a>)\u00a0 I used to love hearing him play ..\u00a0\u00a0 To celebrate Sam&#8217;s love of music, we give\u00a0 away a guitar or bass of the winners choice through a generous deal with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advancemusicvt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Advance Music <\/a> . a teacher or a peer can nominate another person.. for the award. They write up a short paragraph to say why the nominee has a musical soul.. We then put all the names in a bowl and pull one out at random. It&#8217;s a way to give Sam a chance to vote \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Todays&#8217; winner was Colin H..\u00a0\u00a0 here&#8217;s what his nomination said..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_9823.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I love that &#8212; &#8216;clear melodic tone&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_9820.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_9821.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Colin was really psyched. He willingly accepted the conditions on the award.. which is that the guitar can not be used to play billy joel or elton john&#8230;( since Sam didn&#8217;t like their music )<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I left from the ceremony happy and sad&#8230;\u00a0 often happens like that<\/p>\n<p>nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning was the Mount Mansfield Union High school Awards ceremony. and just as in the last 7 years, we awarded the Sam Cohn Musical Soul Award .\u00a0 ( i came across this article about Sam and his music from 2007) Our Sam loved music.. 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