My 2023 setting of The Lord’s Prayer
My 2023 song about toddler Hannah Suzanne
Weidenbachers’ Romance-
A 2021-
My 2019 song about the town I love living in, and why.
My 2022 re-
My 2017 song about Girlfriend #1 way back when, 60 years later.
Words, Words, Words
Link to the Cincinnati Museum’s PDF 23-
POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord?
HAMLET: Words, words, words.
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“Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise.”
(Proverbs 22:17)
Sources can be found on Google
Uber orchestration — having fun with my music writing app, MuseScore.
Not as musical as a real live perform, but in a pinch a computer can do the job.
Baritone Lawrence Indik regularly performs as a soloist and recitalist throughout the United States. He has performed a wide range of repertoire including oratorio, chamber music and solo song repertoire and has also appeared in numerous operatic roles. An active member of the Philadelphia music community, he performs often in the area’s new music venues and has premiered over seventy new works by contemporary composers.
Dr. Indik is also an active author and pedagogue. His articles have appeared in the National Association of Teachers of Singing “Journal of Singing.” He is currently an Associate Professor in the Voice and Opera department at Temple University.
Dr. Cong Fan earned both a Doctor of Music Arts degree and Master of Music degree in Piano Performance from Temple University. Dr. Fan has won many prizes, awards and fellowships. She made her Carnegie Hall debut after winning the first prize at the Frinna Awerbuch International Piano Competition in New York, the first of numerous awards since. In 2004 and 2006, she was listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities & Colleges.
Her orchestra soloist experience began at the age of sixteen with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. Since then, she has performed with leading orchestras in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vienna, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Slovakia, Turkey and several orchestras in America. She is an active soloist and has collaborated in chamber music performances with multiple artists, in Europe, Asia, and the United States. She performed for Philadelphia's Kimmel Center opening day ceremonies, and later as a soloist to commemorate the 150th Year Steinway & Sons celebration.
Dr. Fan is currently an adjunct Professor at Temple University Boyer College of Music. The Music Teachers National Association has designated her as a Permanent Professional Certified Teacher of Music in Piano. In 2008, Dr. Fan’s new CD albums “Yellow River Piano Concerto” and “Piano Solo” were released by TianXuan Recording Company in China, and her performance was awarded “the best piano performance of the year.”
Uber orchestration — having fun with my music writing app, MuseScore.
Tish Colombi served as Haddonfield Commissioner for 28 years, 12 of them as Mayor.
Here, Tish gives renewed meaning to the Power of the Spoken Word.
Music here is computer generated.
Idyll Notes
Like many Haddonfield residents, the longer I live in this lovely little New Jersey oasis, the more I come to appreciate and love the untold genteel amenities of halcyon Haddonfield. That certain feeling of safe haven and comfort quickened the dormant poet in me to give air to just a few of my favorite things, in the form of an air I call “A Haddonfield Idyll.”
The Idyll as metaphor Like many poems, my Idyll is a kind of travelogue through town where the named milestones represent an abundance of similar things. "Centre Street" is only one of the many streets in town evincing its own distinctive character. "Kings Court" represents a host of various places and organizations where residents gather together. The "Pick-
These days, thanks to any number of computer apps, such appreciations can quickly find their way to print, and eventually to performance. The first real (non-
Years ago, Tom Patton, Haddonfield’s long-
To show your own Haddonphilia, please do give A Haddonfield Idyll a thumbs up on YouTube.
Walter Weidenbacher
waltweid48@gmail.com