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Snowflakes on the Windowpanes is an image I can only imagine, because it cannot possibly happen here, in Hot, Texas. Down in Hot, Texas, the leaves will begin to turn sometime in December, if they aren't quick-frozen by some freakish Blue Norther that happens through in mid-November--once a decade or so. Down here in Hot, Texas, the double pane glass is to keep the hot out and the cold in. One time we drove to Dallas on Christmas Eve to be with my mother and sister. By the time we arrived, mother had taken a bad step into the unexpectedly sunken living room of my sister's new investment property and everybody was off to the emergency room to receive some shoddy medical treatment. I stayed behind and taught my niece and nephews how to cut snowflakes out of white printer stock. When we were done, we taped our work to the front picture window of that dangerously-designed rent house. I still have pictures of those flakes. It was a cold day in Dallas.

Robert Way's Snowflakes on the Windowpanes, on the other hand, is meant to evoke the image of actual snowflakes falling against and creating little drifts on actual windowpanes, in some snowed-in lodge in the northern Rockies. His selections provide comfort to folks congregating around the fireplace and contemplating whether to put on a pot of Chrysanthemum tea or to go with the hot chocolate instead. Well, cocoa for sleeping, I say, or tea for sessions of philosophical discovery entending far into the night. Way's brand of elevator music is even good with coffee, if one awakens snowed-in and fretting over having to take a snow shovel to the driveway so somebody can drive to the Asian market and pick up more Chrysanthemum tea.

But here in Hot, Texas, we can eighty-six that shovel: those flakes are fakes! But the delightfully mellow sound of Robert Way's Snowflakes on the Windowpanes is the real deal.

--Richard Banks
(Reviewed in 2007)

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All music was arranged and orchestrated by Robert R. Way, BMI

The Robert Way Orchestra and Chorus

Snowflakes on the Windowpanes

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