Sharon West

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We are just starting to get into the first glimpses of spring here in the Midwest….the birds are starting to chirp a lot every morning, building their nests and the grass is starting to look a little bit greener after the long and cold (but not super snowy) winter here.  I am looking forward to warmer weather and getting back into shorts, and getting some time out in the sun!

It’s been a very busy past couple of months for me….working on a lot of what is…

Summer 2024

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We are just starting summer here in the Chicago area, and the summer is already off to a very hot start (as it is in many parts of the world)!  Let’s hope for some relief on that front so that we can all be safe wherever they are in the world.
Music classes and composing, composing, composing are keeping me very busy these days!  I continue to learn a great deal through all my composition classes and immediately work on incorporating that knowledge…

Welcome to Spring (at least here in the northern hemisphere) - but I have to put a large caveat behind that as it was very cold and snowy here today, so I would have to say that Spring is still a little ways away from here in the Midwest!  

So I know I had shared that I had a rather large surgery last October (for a female reproductive cancer surgery, that was caught early, thank God!) and seemed to be making a fine recovery for the first month or so.  And then I started noticing that my heart rate kept…

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Welcome to Fall (at least here in the northern hemisphere)!  

Like I had said in my summer post, I am a huge advocate of continuous learning….and I am continuing to take a number of online classes currently in Film Scoring, Music Composition and Production Music….I am very pleased with how a number of my new songs are sounding so will keep you apprised of progress with them and when I might be able to produce a new CD (hopefully by spring 2024).

I recently…


Hi and Welcome to Spring (at least in the northern hemisphere).  I hope the weather is as nice by you as it is here in the Chicago area….the birds are chirping early every morning, the buds are slowly emerging as if from a long slumber, and the flowers are starting to break through the ground to search for the sun once again.  The circle of life continues endlessly…..  

I have been keeping myself very busy over the (long) winter by working on a number of new pieces, and studying all kinds of new music….I…

Hi there....Since I have wrapped up descriptions of all the tracks from latest CD, Lake of Dreams, last month I thought it might be kind of interesting to actually write something more truly blog-is this month!   

As I have described on my Home Page in the past, I am taking quite a few online music courses these days along the lines of actual music production as well as true composition courses (more in the cinematic composing vein).  I thoroughly enjoy these courses as we study a number of scores from…

This month’s discussion of tracks from my latest album, Lake of Dreams, is discussing what I was thinking about while composing Tracks 11 (Room for Hope) and 12 (Wherever You Go)!  In writing this blog today, I find both of these tracks have a common theme of Hope for the future and being Optimistic.  In today’s world, that may seem somewhat naive and far-fetched, but we do have many things to be grateful for, even in the worst of times. 

Track 11, Room for Hope, is a song about sometimes feeling a sense of…

This month’s discussion of tracks from my latest album, Lake of Dreams, is discussing what I was thinking about while composing Tracks 9 (Elegy and Hope) and 10 (Travels in Time)!  In writing this blog today, I find it a strange twist of serendipity that I am talking about these 2 tracks that have some things in common with the Elgar Variations that I discuss on my home page this month, at least from an emotional standpoint. 

Track 9, Elegy and Hope, is about dealing with loss in our lives (Elegy) and yet…

May 2022

This month’s discussion of tracks from my latest album, Lake of Dreams, is discussing what I was thinking about while composing Tracks 7 (The Language of the Soul) and 8 (Meditato)!  I would call these 2 tracks my most “spiritual” on this album, as they encompass some truly esoteric but introspective ideas. 

Track 7, The Language of the Soul, draws on the idea that our souls, who we are in our deepest selves, really doesn’t convey information in the same way we communicate to others in our physical…

April 2022 

This month’s discussion of tracks from my latest album, Lake of Dreams, is discussing what I was thinking about while composing Tracks 5 (Angels of the Night) and 6 (On Wings of Love)!   

On Track 5, Angels of the Night, I was thinking about a couple different things….one particular area was the selfless and kind service of all of our courageous and compassionate doctors and nurses helping people who have gotten ill during the Covid epidemic, all around the world.  In many ways, they truly are…