Remember Their Voices - Excerpt (Robert Dorschel)
Yeah, yeah, I know: I misspelled "requiem."
I've gotten over it. I hope you will, too.
Excerpt from a live stream broadcast from Feb 14 2021.
Musical theme is from an older song of mine, "Tuesday in Guilford," link below. The intended concept is to remember the voices of those who are no longer with us on this mortal coil. For me, it as a greater focus is on those lost during the COVID-19 pandemic, but right there aside the others that have moved on during my lifetime... and so it's a toast to their memory, while remembering their voices. This is probably the most Irish-y thing I've ever written or tried to convey in music and thought.
This song purposefully does not resolve in key at the end, to drive the emotion home.
This one is for Aunt Jeannie, Nick Salerno, Lisa Morrow, Gus Dorschel, and about seven others from my lifetime I was thinking of at the time I was thinking of performing this as a requiem.
Original "Tuesday In Guilford" ditty can be found here:
/ tuesday-in-guilford
/ robertdorschel
https://bandcamp.com/robertdorschel
/ robertdorschel
/ robert.dorschel.68