Mauriat (1925-2006) was a French orchestra leader, songwriter, and arranger. Its melody, the use of what appears to be an amplified harpsichord, and the 101-strings sound are-to me-seductive. You could not turn on a car radio that spring without hearing Love Is Blue, and my tennis partner Jim Howard and I would find ourselves driving every afternoon to different tennis courts, trying each one out-and all the while, hearing Paul Mauriat on the radio.īut I would have loved the music regardless of what memory I associate with it. I know I’ll always associate the music with playing on my high school tennis team in 1968. I’m mentioning this because Paul Mauriat’s “Love Is Blue” is what was going on in my mind-stereophonically-when I woke up today. I often ask Tiraje what’s playing in her mind at a given moment, just to compare what we’re hearing, what our present states of mind are. This phenomenon, which I later discovered was just part of being a musician seemed very cool. I had woken up in the middle of the night for some reason, and the Beethoven Third Piano Concerto was playing-in my mind’s ear. I think I was 14 years old when I realized that there was never a time of day when I did not have music going on in my mind.
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