Bill Craig I won't be in your dreams this morning...
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The Choir held out
for a long time to get Bill Craig. We wanted him in the Choir so much
and at last he started coming to practices. A wisp of wind almost passed
us by but there he stood light and airy.
His
tenor voice was so perfectly clear and unbroken. I wasn't used to that
kind of voice but craving after anything that neared perfection I
welcomed it into my life with thanksgiving. His own compositions were so
beautiful that I always listened to them almost in a trance and would
give dirty looks to anyone who might suggest a distraction from my
intent listening.
Today William Craig is an award winning photojournalist and poet, a musician,
composer of music, songwriter and lyricist. He was called “one of the
North Bay’s finest musicians,” by the Marin Independent Journal. His
music has been praised by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Los Angeles
Times. He was given the 1994 award for best narrative poetry
by the California Federation of Chapparal Poets. He was given a
certificate of achievement in 2008 by the California Newspaper Publishers
Association and he has had several poems and articles published in the Napa Register, the
Chronicle, the Petaluma Argus Courier, and others. Born in Walla
Walla, Washington, his first articles were published in the Walla
Walla Union Bulletin shortly after high school. He was educated at the
Monterey Language Institute, the College of Marin, and California State
University, at Sonoma. He is a former Air Force linguist, former Island
Records recording artist, and lives in Napa, California.
Here's to you Bill
The rain has come and gone
as the small buds open
there comes to sound a note
In the still morning, a Lark
The sound of a thousand monks chanting
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