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Thy Will Be Done 🎵

My 2023 setting of The Lord’s Prayer

Hannah Suz Song 🎵

My 2023 song about toddler Hannah Suzanne

Weidenbachers’ Romance-Fantasy 🎵

A 2021-22 father & son collaboration

A Haddonfield Idyll 🎵

My 2019 song about the town I love living in, and why.

A Ring Around Your Finger  🎵

My 2022 re-up of a 1936 song by my Mom & Dad

Ginny 🎵

My 2017 song about Girlfriend #1 way back when, 60 years later.

Words, Words, Words

Words of The Wise

Be Prepared

Mined & Smelted By Me

Words of Consolation

Walter’s Opera

Link to the Cincinnati Museum’s PDF 23-page listing of just some of Dad’s works over the years. (I didn’t know he was this prolific, nor how consumed in his mind he must have been all the while. He was always busy.)

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

The following is taken from Ernest Bloch's masterpiece, Sacred Service (Avodath Hakodesh). Program notes say, "It is the text, taken from the Psalms, Deuteronomy, Exodus, Isiah, Proverbs, and post-Biblical writings, that provides the formal framework of this, the most expansive of Bloch's Jewish works, set for Cantor (a baritone instead of the more usual tenor), mixed chorus and large orchestra."

The cantor here is Marko Rothmüller, recorded in 1949, with the composer conducting this most beautiful rendering of ethereal orchestration and delicate quarter-tone quasi-sprechgesang. The recording was reissued by Jewish Music Heritage Recordings on a CD titled, "Bloch Performs Bloch."

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And now ere we part, let us call to mind those who have finished their earthly course and have been gathered to the eternal home. Though vanished from bodily sight, they have not ceased to be, and it is well with them; they abide in the shadow of the Most High. Let those who mourn for them be comforted. Let them submit their aching hearts to God, for He is just and wise and merciful in all His doings, though no man can comprehend His ways. In the divine order of nature both life and death, joy and sorrow, serve beneficent ends, and in the fulness of time we shall know why we are tried and why our love brings us sorrow as well as happiness. Wait patiently, all ye that mourn, and be ye of good courage, for surely your longing souls shall be satisfied.

Words of Consolation

Among my favorite hymns:

Be not dismayed whate'er betide,   God will take care of you!

Beneath His wings of love abide,    God will take care of you!

God will take care of you,              Through every day o'er all the way;

He will take care of you;                God will take care of you!