Words and Music

Bale, and Don Orfeo

Instrumentation

Piano and voice; orchestra and voice

Michelle's Song, by Don "Orfeo" Rechtman (2016, updated 2020)
is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
    (This means you can perform it non-commercially or commercially without having to pay royalties, but you are required to acknowledge its authorship and where you got it. You cannot modify it without written permission from Don "Orfeo" Rechtman.)

Sheet Music

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Piano Score  PDF format

Piano Score SIB (Sibelius) format

Orchestra Score  PDF format

Orchestra Score SIB (Sibelius) format

Recording

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Video

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This is a Sibelius-generated rendition of the music piano score accompaniment with a MIDI voice (MP4).
This is a Sibelius-generated rendition of the music orchestra score accompaniment without voice (MP4).

Practice Tracks

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Notes

A friend of mine was getting married! I secretly contacted her husband-to-be and had him write a poem for Michelle, and I set it to music. A surprise performance at her wedding was my wedding gift. She cried, not because of my singing or bad Chinese pronunciation, but because she actually loved the words and the music.

Don Orfeo
2016

Lyrics Printout

庄亦潇之歌

作词人:明勃霖

迎面而来是缘,擦肩而过是份
如此说来,今生相见定是机缘。

没有那份缘分注定。
我们尚在独自历练。
是因这份缘分牵引。
才使我们终得遇见。
相识,相知,相伴。
才有小家值得期盼。

从此,窗外花团锦簇,
比不得家中春色满园。
比不得屋内简单怡然。
比不得生活油盐酱茶。
比不得此生天伦之乐。

想来家庭,诚该如此。
棋逢对手,旗鼓相当。

终一生,
守一城,
驻一人,
共白首。

Lyrics English Translation

庄亦潇之歌

Thanks to fate for letting me to know you in this life.
Without that fate, we might be on our separate ways living different lives.
Thanks to the predestined fate, we met each other.
By meeting, knowing and accompanying each other, we become family.

Now, nothing can compare with the spring blossoms flowering in our backyard.
Nothing can compare with the simple decorations designed by your beautiful hands.
Nothing can compare with the bread and milk that are prepared by your love.
Nothing can compare with the happiness of our little tiny family.

I think these are what create the happiness of a family.
We are equal spiritually and mentally.
All my life, you and your city of love in which you live both are my home,
and I would like to grow old with you therein.

Last modified: 02/23/22