This message seems to have been more than a simple note of gratitude.
There's a simple note of uplift in the title track, and a slightly less simple one in the opener, "In the Meantime," which has her declaring that "the greatest days we've ever known/Are the ones we're livin' in".
A simple note of thanks will suffice.
You don't have to take every gig, but a simple, note of "Thank you, but I will be unable to perform.
And make a note — a very simple note — of where the documents were acquired and on what date.
Little wonder, then, that, after Vikram Seth's novel "A Suitable Boy" failed to be short-listed for the prize, Seth's agent sent one of the judges a simple note: "May God and literature forgive you".
On a simpler note, once all of this stripped away, white flour is a starch and your body is likely to store these refined carbohydrates as fat, contributing to obesity.
"Folk Music," which Greenstein wrote in the summer of 2004, is one of the freshest pieces I've heard so far this year: a Ravel-like kaleidoscope of intertwining figures built up from the simple notes of the B-minor scale.
The first half ends on a breathtakingly eloquent, simple note with a solo, "State of Dis-Ease," performed by Ms. Garrison and set to music by the jazz composer Jimmy Garrison, who is her father.
Sunday's performances were dedicated to Mr. Rauschenberg by way of a simple program note; such matter-of-factness is in keeping with Mr. Cunningham's art, which, if solemnly received, is never preciously presented.
"He was not as flashy as Ravi Shankar, but he had the ability to play a single note, or a simple passage of notes, and draw out such amazing depth," said John Schaefer, the host of "New Sounds" and "Soundcheck" on WNYC-FM in New York.
