Sorrow (own composition)

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This is without any doubt my favourite composition and the one I am the most proud of, also and especially since I put the most work in it.
It was inspired by one of my favourite songs when I was young. This time not the Beatles or Ennio Morricone but of a composer whose name may not be very wellknown: Francis Lay. As soon as I specify which song I mean maybe it will ring a bell. I’m talking about the theme of the movie “Love Story”, released in 1970.
But there is also something else in “Sorrow” that was inspired by Francis Lay. Once I saw a documentary in which he demonstrated how to create the sound of a balalaika on a piano. For that demonstration he played the theme of “Doctor Zhivago” and I used the same tecnique myself in “Sorrow”.

The strange thing about “Sorrow” is that I had completely forgotten about the song. One day my father gave me one of his video-tapes of me playing the piano in 1991 . When after a long time I heard the song again it almost sent shivers down my spine. However it was clear that the song then was not finished yet and I never got round to finishing it. But 15 years later I did :o).

I dedicated the song to my mother, for which I have a good reason. The moment I start the balalaika sound in the video my father takes a close-up of my mother and that’s what gave me the shivers. My mother…. 15 years younger…. the piano weeps…. A bad period for her and for us all…. One son was in rehabilitation, recovering from a brain tumor operation…. Me in a mental-institution…. And when the piano
starts that balalaika sound, and my father takes a close-up of her, it’s just like (although hardly noticeably) her head bends slightly…. As if all the grief in the world and in our family, which I tried to translate in the song, came down on her and she
understood the message I was putting into the song.
The video I’m talking about you can see on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2Wjbv0W0pk

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