Lover's Waltz
Text Source
Don "Orfeo" Rechtman
Music
Don "Orfeo" Rechtman
Instrumentation
Baritone, piano (or orchestra and chorus accompaniment)
Sheet Music
(To copy the score to your computer, right-click the link and select "Save target as... ".)
Vocal Score PDF
Vocal Score Sibelius SIB
Full Orchestral Score Sibelius SIB
Free orchestral parts (as PDFs) are available by request, or you may create your own with the Sibelius score.
Recording
Piano accompaniment (.MP3 2.5MB)
Orchestra and voices (.MP3 3.1MB. NOTE: This is a sound file crudely generated by Sibelius, so some of the sounds and balances are not ideal!)
Orchestra and choral accompaniment without solo voice (.MP3 3.1MB. NOTE: Same note as above!)
Video
Don's performance at the Shenzhen Talent TV program, December, 2011. (.WMV 32MB) The person he is dancing with is one of the three judges; she insisted on being the one he sang to!
Practice Tracks
N/A
Lyrics Printout
Lyrics in a PowerPoint display (.PPT)
Performance Graphics
Multimedia presentation in PowerPoint (.PPTX 12MB)
This was written and performed for my parent's 50th wedding anniversary. (In 2013, they celebrated their 64th!)
It tells the story of two people who meet, fall in love, get married, raise children together, have good and bad times, and grow old together dancing the lover's waltz.
The story somehow reminds me of the song Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree, presumably due to the way the surprise ending is expressed.