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Robert
F. Graboyes, MSHA, PhD Senior Fellow for Health and Economics NFIB Research Foundation | 1201 F Street NW, Suite 200 |
Washington, DC 20004 202.314.2063
| bob.graboyes@nfib.org | www.NFIB.com/DrBob Professor (health economics): VCU | UVa | GMU | GWU Personal: rfgraboyes@gmail.com
| www.robertgraboyes.com Compositions I began playing music in 1959 and performed professionally
throughout college and graduate school. These days, I play professionally and
for charitable organizations on occasion. I usually play pop, Latin, jazz,
and classical. I especially enjoy doing Brazilian, Tin Pan Alley, British
Invasion, Country, and American Folk. Among songwriters, George Gershwin,
Antonio Carlos Jobim, the Beatles, and Paul Simon top my list. I also admire
a long list of country songwriters – Hank Williams, Willie Nelson,
Dolly Parton, John Hartford, and Jimmy Webb. I could also a long list of
current writers, starting with those who have written for Alison Krauss. I compose songs. Sometimes the tunes stand alone, and
sometimes I fit them to old poems. For the latter, I generally use pre-1923
poems to avoid copyright issues. Here are some examples, mostly performed
almost all of these on a Roland KR107 digital piano, which generates all of
the pianos, guitars, saxophones, brass, and other instruments. On many of
these songs, I recorded multiple tracks, with different instruments, and
overlaid them electronically. Please note that these melodies are copyrighted: ©
by Robert F. Graboyes, 2007, 2010, 2011. Original ·
White Sand,
Blue Heart. © Music by Robert F. Graboyes, 2007. (3:06) ·
Bahamalanna. © Music by
Robert F. Graboyes, 2007. (1:00) ·
The
Hammer. © Music by
Robert F. Graboyes, 2007. (1:12) ·
Laurelyn, My
Laurelyn. © Music by
Robert F. Graboyes, 2010. (5:13) From Poems ·
The Road Not Taken. © Music by
Robert F. Graboyes, 2007. (2:15) Based on "The Road Not Taken," by Robert Frost (1874-1963).
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The Terror of
Death. © Music by
Robert F. Graboyes, 2007. (1:22) Based on "The Terror of Death," by John Keats
(1795-1821). Brazilian style, since I thought the poem nicely describes saudade. ·
The Rainy Day. © Music by
Robert F. Graboyes, 2007. (1:56) Based on "The Rainy Day," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882). The words include
the epigrammatic, "Into each life, some rain must fall," and I
wrote the melody on one of the darkest, rainiest, windiest days I ever saw. ·
1st Latin Sketch. © Music by Robert
F. Graboyes, 2007. (1:40) Based on a Latin-American poem that may
still be under copyright. So I'll just call this "1st Latin
Sketch." ·
The
Tiger. © Music by
Robert F. Graboyes, 2007. (1:36) Based on a "The Tiger," by William Blake (1757-1827). Blake's poems are more than a
little odd, so I thought I'd go bluesy dissonance on this one. ·
The
Rainbow. © Music by
Robert F. Graboyes, 2007. (0:55) Based on "The Rainbow," by William Wordsworth
(1770-1850). ·
We'll Go
No More a-Roving. © Music by Robert F. Graboyes, 2007.
(0:52) Based on "We'll Go No More a-Roving,"
by George Gordon, Lord Byron
(1788-1824). ·
The Highwayman. © Music by
Robert F. Graboyes, 2007. (7:45) Based on “The Highwayman,” by Alfred Noyes
(1880-1958). ·
To Helen. © Music by Robert F. Graboyes,
2011. (1:57) Based on “To Helen,” by Edgar Allan Poe
(1809-1849). |
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