Thursday, March 12, 2009

Cafe Music

This piece and composer have an interesting personal story behind it:
When I was about 17 I was traveling on the plane to London and heard this piece "Cafe Music" by Paul Schoenfield and it somehow stuck in my mind. A few years later I went to Yeshiva in Migdal emeck which is like the Arm pit of Israel. Take a left at the end of the world and then another left, that kind of thing. When I was there I met this guy who told me he was a composer and I went to his apt, it was this tiny apt in an israeli apt building. There in this little room was this Beautiful Steinway probably worth more then the house was! As he was telling me which pieces he had composed I recognized the name "Cafe Music" and started singing it to him. It was his piece! Small world!
Here it is:

No comments:

Post a Comment