Here's the finalized version of the score "The Assassination of Henry William McCarty". This piece I decided to focus on the 1928 Steinway Legacy piano sound. I had been listening to a lot of Thomas Newman's work so everything from "The Road to Perdition" to "Cinderella Man" to even soundtracks like "A Beautiful Mind" by James Horner and "The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford" by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis. Actually it was "The Assassination of Jesse James" that inspired me to write the music with that subtle tone and it was Thomas Newman's styling that helped develop this score. 

Anyway, as the title also entails, this is my submission for the 8Dio contest where you highlight one instrument of theirs in your score. So as I mentioned I picked the 1928 Steinway Legacy scoring piano for my main instrument. I wish I had the Adagio Strings because I know that would have enhanced my score WAY more but alas I'll have to work with my EWQL strings until then. 

Anyway, enjoy the piece and I'll have my other "A Farewell to the Infamous William Henry McCarty" piece finished soon. Share, Comment, Like.

F I R S T | E D I T I O N S - The Assassination of William Henry McCarty by J Scott Rakozy

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Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI81R8bpaQQ

This is Joachim Raff's piano solo arrangement with some small alterations. 

Commonly known as "Air on the G String" but that's actually the title of an arrangement of this movement for violin and piano.

JS Bach: Suite No. 3 in D major - II. Air / "Air on the G String" (Piano Solo)

Diego Modena & Jean Philippe Audin - Implora (Flute, Violin)

This double-cycle work is the living scripture of Oblige — a continuous journey through mourning, memory, forgiveness, and union.
The album begins in the humid streets of New Orleans, where the dead are carried by brass and rhythm, and ends in a private universe where two bodies merge into one breath — heaven not as a place, but as perfect sync.

It’s both a funeral and a birth, a sermon and a confession.
Every track evolves sonically, emotionally, and spiritually — moving from earthly brass and drum to industrial gospel storms to chamber intimacy and, finally, into silence glowing with life.

Nothing repeats.
Each song transforms what came before — the tuba becomes thunder, the thunder becomes breath, and the breath becomes love.

Between Breath and Life

In the Enchanted Garden

Another Realm

This is another performance I gave at the 2011 Showcase Lamont event. 

Sarasate: Navarra for Two Violins

Somewhere Out There

Chopin Polonaise in A major op40-1 Terhi Dostal

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Diego Modena & Jean Philippe Audin - Implora (Flute, Violin)

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