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Longineu and Joanna Parsons are both faculty members at Florida A&M University.  Longineu is a jazz trumpeter and Joanna is a classical pianist \u2013 and they enjoy making music together.<\/a> Both began playing as young children.<\/p>\n

Joanna started playing the piano as a six year-old in Warsaw \u2013 because her older sister started playing and Joanna always wanted to do whatever her older sister was doing.  She started going to music school and according to Joanna, everything else after that was \u201cpracticing, practicing, practicing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Longineu’s musical education was a bit different.  \u201cI started with piano when I was small, but that didn’t last very long because I was in third grade and piano lessons were on Saturdays, hanging out with a bunch of girls instead of being out playing ball with the boys\u2026\u201d  He stopped playing piano, but later, in seventh grade, he joined the school band and took up the coronet.  \u201cAnd that’s how all of this madness started for me,\u201d he sums up.<\/p>\n

So how did this pair become professors at Florida A&M Univeristy? <\/p>\n

Joanna says \u201cI came here from South America, from Columbia, where I was working and playing in the orchestra.  I started studying at FSU and then did my doctorate \u2013 and I found a job at FAMU.\u201d<\/p>\n

Longineu tells his story\u2026 \u201cAfter performing for quite a few years out in the world, I decided to go back to school.  I was in grad school at the University of Florida and my alma mater, FAMU, wrote me a letter saying it’s time to come home.  So I came here, expecting to be here for a year or two\u2026 and eighteen years later, I’m really happy and I have no intention of leaving.  And I met my darling wife (of eight years) here and we’re happy as we could be, right here in Tallahassee.\u201d<\/p>\n

Longineu and Joanna Parsons are inspired to practice and play together because they feel that it’s a great expression of love.  Says Longineu, \u201cIt’s all about life.  It’s about the life that I live; the life that we live together.  And that just inspires us to make music.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joanna adds \u201cFor me, in every piece of music that I play, I hear music in colors \u2013 so for me, it’s an incredible experience to play.  And when I perform with my husband, it’s even better because I have double the colors in my imagination.  That’s a very rich experience for me.\u201d  She continues \u201cIt’s so very vivid, so I think the more music I know, the more music I have in my inner memory, the more colors I see.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you’re interested in hearing more music from Joanna and Longineu Parsons, you can visit their website at TribalDisorder.com<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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