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the Jester’s Waltz sample sheet music page
NOTES:
Being of Viennese extraction, Richard has always had a soft spot for the beauty and elegance of the waltz. But this is not that! Rather than a reverential bow to Johann Strauss, the Jester’s Waltz owes more to the influence of Erik Satie, Cirque du Soleil, and the court jester from Edgar Allan Poe’s story, Hop-Frog (safety tip: do not read this tale late at night!). Richard’s farcical parody of the once-venerable dance form has been called “playful, hilarious, manic, fiendishly fast”…all of which bodes well to be entrusted to the sleight of hand mastery of a virtuoso pianist …