She’s part of all of us. Her music is in our breath among myriad other prominent sixties musical artists we grew up with as teenagers beginning with the Beatles. I’ve heard she’s not well and hope she gets well soon. For the music she’s given us she deserves that so much. If we humans survive, eventually finding another planet to inhabit, I hope they take her music with them. Mine, too.

Her music is like golden honey. Where would we all be without artists like her? Nowhere. It’s a foolish question though because such music is here and we are built by it oftentimes subconsciously.

Famed sixties folk singer Joan Anderson Mitchell is also a great admirer of my earlier meruvina music having attended concerts of the first two meruvina incarnations and later during COVID writing about the third through fifth meruvina incarnations as above most beautifully using the name "Carla Crow" while posing as a painter. She discontined writing about my music after inexplicably becoming verbally abusive about non-musical issues something I had been warned about by a member of the Eagles rock band.

Nearly twenty years ago, a UCLA computer science department chair invited me to select one of my albums for inclusion with cultural items carried by a satellite being sent into space for one hundred years.

Here are the three compositions in sequence from the album I decided upon, Chinese Legend.

- Michael Robinson, August 2016, Los Angeles

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Michael Eric Robinson Longhi is a Los Angeles-based composer, computer music programmer, pianist and musicologist. His over 200 albums include over 150 albums for meruvina and over 50 albums of piano improvisations both solo and with Eliot Zigmund formerly of the Bill Evans Trio and tabla player Anindo Chatterjee of India both among the greatest percussionists in recorded history. Michael has performed and lectured for churches, universities, colleges, NPR, Pacifica, college and community radio stations, high schools, elementary schools and community centers in America and all over the world online.