My Dream of the Lost Schumann Romances (which Clara burned)
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My Dream of the lost Schumann Romances (which Clara burned) is just that: about ninety percent a transcription of a dream I had where the young Brahms, Robert, and Clara (dressed as Harlequin!) all take turns performing Schumann’s lost work for cello and piano.
As a little background, we do know that Robert composed his “Romances for cello and piano” shortly before he was institutionalized — a piece which, sadly, didn’t escape one of Clara’s editorial bonfires! Which might explain why the piano in my dream was on fire most of the time. Why my dream also featured a famous 60’s guitar solo and a recently composed love song of mine (all “re-contextualized” in the dream of course) is harder to explain. But that this dream endlessly looped around, nightmare fashion, allowed me happily (upon waking) to remember and transcribe this singular experience.
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