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It's been many months since I last shared a new composition here. I hope you will enjoy this new one! 
As 2014 comes to an end and we look forward to the new year ahead, I hope this track might provide a simple soundtrack to your reflections, as it is for mine.
Happy New Year!

Looking Back, Looking Forward

Kreisler-Rachmaninoff: Liebesleid played by Rachmaninoff 1923, on Ampico piano roll 62103. which scanned and converted into a digital form by Terry Smythe et al,, and audio-recorded (by permission)in 2015 by VViljanen, and the rec. updated 19 May 2017 from the digitized copy of the original reproducing piano roll.
ANY KIND OF COMMERCIAL USE PROHIBITED.
Photo: Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
Info* of the original roll:
LIEBESLIED (LOVE'S SORROW) "alternating roll with silent sections Weiner Tanzweisen" (Old Viennese Dance Melodies) No. 2
Roll Number: 62103, 62103H
Composer/Creator: Kreisler, Rachmaninoff
Pianist: Rachmaninoff
Roll System: Ampico
Country: US
Date: June, 1923
Category: classical, popular
Original Price: $2.00
* source: from The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)

Kreisler-Rachmaninoff: Liebesleid. Sergei Rachmaninoff in 1923, on Ampico 62103

Solo Piano.  Created LIVE in Real-Time at St. Wenceslaus Church, St. Louis MO.

Year of Music XIII

Year of Music: January 9, 2025

Solo Piano.  Created in Real-Time at the Midwest Music Conservatory, St. Louis MO.

Key West Sunset photo by Greg Carr, my brother.

Year of Music: February 20, 2025

Solo Piano.  Created in Real-Time at the Midwest Music Conservatory, St. Louis MO.

Year of Music: March 14, 2025

(blossoms and pollen, people are crying, people are sneezing)
2 track improvised guitar, loren connors airs inspired

something in the air

A Hopeful Waltz

06 64 the echoes of fading whispers

Solo Kurzweil.  Created in Real-Time in my home studio.

Photo by Darren Lovecchio, ImpactImages831@yahoo.com.

Year of Music: April 28, 2025

I'm not a big fan of what's on the mainstream, but I have been a Les Miz fan since a decade before the movie version was released. Allow me though to take advantage of its limelight. Here's four of my favorite songs from this wonderful musical.

Songs:
I Dreamed A Dream - Fantine
A Little Fall of Rain - Eponine and Marius
On My Own - Eponine
Bring Him Home - Jean Valjean

Les Miserables Medley (Piano Improvisation) - F.G. Guzman

The window was open and the blossom blew in on a strong wind, and as I looked out into a whirlwind of pink blossom from the tree in my garden this piece came to me - not many things are as inspiring as nature herself.

The image is called "cherry blossoms-sakura 1" and is by sei_k on sxc.hu (http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1419049)

Falling Cherry Blossom [Re-recorded August 2014]

The Year of Music project began in May 2011  there has been a new musical creation posted each day.  Each new piece is created in real-time.   The project is currently in its 13th year.  To date, there are over 4700 "Daily Doses" in the project.

Richard’s live performances take audiences on a journey away from the busy world and into a calmer, less chaotic mental and emotional environment.  Drawing on his classical training, jazz and pop familiarity, Richard creates music thru an improvisational process.  His music has been called a soothing elixir for the soul, mind and body.

In 2016, composer/contemporary pianist Richard Carr moved to the Monterey Bay area of California after living in his native St. Louis area since 2005.  Richard spent 10 years working as a pianist in the night clubs, hotels and restaurants of the French Quarter of New Orleans prior to Hurricane Katrina.  He has released twenty-fiven solo albums and one collaboration in the contemporary instrumental /new age genre.

Aware of the meditative quality of his music, Richard has been exploring the healing side of his music.  Working in the holistic community of St. Louis, Richard developed the I AM Creative Sessions. These sessions are personal sessions in which Richard creates music for the client’s intention or focus.  In essence, he creates a soundtrack for the intention.
  
Currently Richard's electronic keyboard set-up includes Kurzweil PC3x and PC4x,  StudioLogic Numa 2-88,and the Roland boutique synths JP-08 and JX-03.

Year of Music: April 28, 2025

Richard Carr Piano

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