Hey everyone,
A while back I challenged myself to write a transcription of the iconic "Over the Rainbow," which is no doubt best enjoyed sung by Judy Garland in the Wizard of Oz. The inspiration for this was sort of a mix between just playing around and perhaps channeling my inner Rachmaninov.
The transcription was a very short-lived idea, so this is not a totally ideal performance... but it's the only time I played it publicly.
I believe at the time of coming up with this, I was working on Rachmaninov's Polka de V.R., which is a "transcription" of a dinky Franz Behr polka, but in the most liberal sense of a transcription - Rachmaninov really had his way with it! He turned pretty cheesy music into a masterpiece of unbelievably inventive and virtuosic display. Here, I'm taking pretty beloved music and making it... well.. I guess making it something
else, not something better.
I confess that I hastily put this together a couple weeks before this performance, and I actually made it much better afterward, but then dropped the idea altogether, all within the course of month or something. I suppose I'm more inclined to write original stuff that never sees the light of day than I am to make transcriptions of popular music
Anyway, I'm opening myself up here on a public forum looking forward to some good conversation and feedback, soberly aware of the probable chance of snarky criticism.
With appreciation,
M
Topic: "Over the Rainbow" Original Transcription