WaltWeid.com
Walter Weidenbacher
Waltweid.com
waltweid48@gmail.com
Photos taken a day before yesterday
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
Weidenbachers’ Romance-Fantasy
A collaboration by
Walter Weidenbacher
and
Walter Weidenbacher
If you noticed the possessive apostrophe following the “s” in the title, it’s because the piece is a collaboration by two Weidenbachers—a most unusual time-travel collaboration—between my father, Walter Weidenbacher, and me, Walter Weidenbacher.
The story: My Dad, a true Renaissance man, busied himself all his life with a variety of artistic pursuits. One of his favorites was composing. Over the years, a tune he wrote and occasionally played on the piano would run through my head (musicophilia).
Recently, playing duets with my dear friend flutist Josie, I decided to resurrect the tune and compose a fantasy on Dad’s tune as I remembered it, for flute and piano. While working it out, I asked my cellist sister Kirsten if she recognized the melody. “Yes, that’s a cello piece Dad wrote for me.”
“Oh!? It’s for cello? I had always assumed it was a piano piece. Might you still have the score?” She dug it up, and except for a few incidentals, I had remembered the melody note for note, but none of the “development” part. My accompaniment was much like Dad’s, and by the time I saw the score, I was well on my way to completing my “fantasy.” Dad had titled it “Romance,” which gave me reason to name my effort “Romance-Fantasy.”
With a few instrument-specific adjustments, I now have three versions, one for flute, one for cello, and one for viola (for violist bro-in-law Yarden). Someday I might be lucky enough to hear real musicians play the piece, but til then, the computer does a satisfactory job of imitating the real thing.
To see and hear the fruits of the two Weidenbachers’ labors, click on the links in the right panel.
This page
www.waltweid.com/fantasy
