Good Afternoon, Ernesto, I wanted to take a little time and tell you about my introduction to your father's music. October 25, 2007 would become a very important day in my life but at that time I did not know that. I received a beautiful power point entitled Forest Walk. The music that accompanied this beautiful video of scenes from the forest impacted me so hard but I didn't really know why. I felt the need to play it again and this time I paid more attention to the music. This melody reached me to the depths of my soul and I played it again and again and did not watch the video but just listened again to the music. Oh, what peacefulness, what beauty and it was indescribable. No where in the video did it give even a hint of whose music this was. I sent it to friends and asked them about it and none had even heard it before but thought it was beautiful. So I just continued a daily habit of listening to the video and would even hold my little dog and rock her to the music. I played it so much she even began to recognize this music and would come up to me when I was at the computer and sit up and beg; meaning she wanted me to hold her. How spoiled she was (I have since lost her). Another wonderful day in my life, very unexpectedly, December 18, 2007, another power point was sent to me from a totally different person than the one that sent the first power point. It was entitled Thousand Islands and I began watching it and just a little bit into the power point show I began to think the playing of the music was familiar and I stopped it and began again and immediately I picked up on the playing of the piano and it sounded so familiar and it dawned on me that's the same pianist playing this song that played for Forest Walk. Something about the touch, the feel of the music. Now you know as well as I do that 'Two Candles For Two Hearts' doesn't even sound like 'Lonely Island'. Go back and listen, but it's your father playing and you know that feel and passion of his. . . .it's there in whatever song he is playing. He feels the music. At the end of the video there it is . . . .Music by Ernesto Cortazar. . . . . . . .Lonely Island. Wow, jackpot! I was so thrilled you would have thought I had won a great prize (which I did,finding out the Composer of the music). I had finally found what I was looking for and then I began that search on the Internet and found MP3 and eventually your web site in December of 2009 and I have been blessed ever since. I very rarely listen to any other music but Ernesto's but I have not completely cut myself off from the music world; just as he never locked himself into only his music. He passionately sought out the music of other composers that he liked and loved and played and recorded their music also. But you know what? No matter what or whose music he played, he played it how he felt it and he reached to the depths of your soul. Oh, how fortunate for you to have been given such a legacy. How fortunate your Mother was to have someone that loved her so much and would compose such beautiful melodies for her. How fortunate he was also to have been blessed with such talent and with such passion. Thank you, Ernesto, for taking the time to read this and to know of another person that was touched by your father's music. I do hope you will take the time to view the power point "Forest Walk" and see what it was that set my heart and soul on fire for Ernesto's music. Love and Blessings, Suann
