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When life happens, I put it into my art, my work. A lot of life has been happening lately. Some good, but the bad tends to outweigh the good and, while "at the end of the day I feel so blessed." It all sounds so cliche to me. My dear friend and roommate & I were robbed yesterday; our peaceful home ransacked. Diva and I have known each other 25 years, as most of you close to us and fans of my books and webisodes know. As much as the media talks about Detroit that never happened to us there. I guess I had to come down to sunny South Florida for this experience. So after salting the day away, counting our losses and blessings, I finished sweeping smatterings of debris off my bedroom floor and I slipped into the shower.
I received very sad news today of the passing of a very dear friend. We hadn't been as much in touch in recent years, but when we would talk we would always immediately start up right where we left off before and it was like no time had gone by at all. I spoke with her last early this past summer. While she had told me of some bumps in the road of her journey health wise, she was still the upbeat, vibrant, jovially spirited friend from days gone by. Ramona Miles passed away November 15, 2011. I had sent a Christmas card to her and her mother, per usual and got back a letter from her mother and her memorial program. To my fans, you may remember Ramona for her wonderful vocals in my dramatic, audio play Tears and Thunder (1996) where she sang with me on Amazing Grace for the funeral scene and did an awesome acapella version of The Lord's Prayer. Ramona was an amazing artist and I am so thankful to her now, more than ever before, because I will always have her voice as a gift to me, and her friends and family. I have included links to those videos later in this post, as well as a poem for and in memory of her.
Year by year, not much really, truly stands up to the classical music recordings. It is almost as though these artists are truly in a league all their own. Always very highly competitive and usually my picks are also my predictions. I allow myself this easy way out (lol) because a lot of these categories are too close to call. Some years are easy, as a lot of bloc voting seems to be the norm here. Sometimes it is obvious, like the one year the San Francisco Symphony won five awards. This is nearly impossible this year though, as there was really no one album with that many multiple nominations - and I haven't figured out if it is due to the scaling down of categories and rule changes or if it is the fact that the field truly is wide open.
I am proud to present the winners for the 2011 Cassone Channel Honors for Season 14 of the videos that premiered on my YouTube Channels during the eligible time. Thank you to all who voted. THE 2011 CASSONE CHANNEL HONORS
SEASON 14
BEST WEBISODE – SEASON 14
334: THE “GAYS”
Jennifer Diane, performer. Antonio Cassone, performer, director, producer, concept, sound mixing & editor.
Watch this award winning webisode at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vtkFZNfjFE
BEST SPECIAL CLASS VIDEO – SEASON 14
IN MEMORIAM: A LIFETIME OF LOVE, LOSS AND TRIBUTES
A.D., Paul Miller, Bob Drews, Pat & Carol & Brian Bragg, location producers/props. Doris Petroski, Alvin Davis, Marie Villapondo, Arva Thomas, Andre Streeter, Petronella “Grandma Anna” Cassone, Larry Vara, Donald & Sandra Cassone, Raymundo Guzman, Ophelia Prado, “Rose” Marie Gibbs, Danny Turner, Rita Southers, Kenneth Dix, Rosemary Conroy, Cecil Gibbs, Christy Philyaw Harrison, “Mother” Peggy Caldwell, Darlene Jones, Moldavia Ishtar, Melba Moore (a.k.a. Robert Brunner), Louise Fritschen, Doris Blackwell, Genevieve Jedro, Ralph Fritschen, Shawn Abraham, Reggie Thompson, Irene Fecko, Dennis Ashby a.k.a. Rita Porter, Sharon L. Cassone, Robert “Rocky” Cassone, William “Billy” Earl Gibbs II, Walter McCoy, Elizabeth “Liz” Patrick & Margaret “Googles” Dickensheet, honorees. Sia, song recording artist. Antonio Cassone, photographer, photo editor, video slideshow director, producer & editor.
Watch this award winning video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxrI6gwx1sM
BEST SUPPORTING PLAYER – SEASON 14
NANCY ROSS, “315: Don’t Leave Me Greyhound Bound” & 320: Power Ballad le Deuces”
Watch Nancy's award-winning performance in webisode 320: Power Ballad le Deuces at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQGNTQHKTmU - NOTE: I did have to swap the audio on this video, so as not to bare copyright infringement and to keep with the terms of use on the host site.
BEST GUEST STAR - SEASON 14
WALTER MC COY LIFE LEGEND AWARD – SEASON 14
DAME SHIRLEY BASSEY
Watch the video presentation for this category at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6vq8HQrKck






















