Tag: Musical Compositions

Here’s a study for piano and guitar. A bit chaotic, maybe, but give it a shot.

I hammered this one into something interesting, I think. You decide.

I have recorded this song, recovered from a discarded manuscript by Brahms, originally written for a choir of a thousand voices and an orchestra of five hundred instruments. I found it in a trash bin in Florence. So it might have been a work of Vivaldi. Anyway, here it is, along with the original lyrics, which read:

The translation is as follows:

You may comment to me or to Brahms or Vivaldi, as you feel appropriate. (And I have to reassure you that this is a joke, not a real manuscript. Sorry.)

The first one can’t decide whether to be sweet or silly. That guitar wants to have its way. But the second one is just pure sweet. See what you think.

Here’s a lullaby I wrote for Mimi when she was 90 years old and recovering from a fall.

And here is a piece I wrote at Dominican College in 1970 when a classical trio came to visit. I gave a terribly rough draft to them, and they actually tried to play it, bless their hearts. It’s much better this way. I call it “Rain.”