Featured Song Writer And Singer Donald Rubinstein ~
This song popped up today. It sounded sweet and melancholy on this winter day, with a wind pushing the New Mexico harvest aside. “Sing Me To Sleep”, by Sharon Gilchrist and Donald Rubinstein- Performed live by Donald Rubinstein, Gig Santa Fe, 2011. “Sharon began this song in Santa Fe, and gave it to me to complete. I worked on it from a quiet room in Southern Spain, overlooking a river.” ~ Donald Rubinstein
I have found that the beauty in life exists in all of us. And that’s exactly how I found Donald’s beautiful smile and song “Sing Me To Sleep”. It’s a wonderful piece of artistic music written with all his heart and with Donald’s lyrics and sung in his beautiful soothing voice. The lyrics “To the safely reach the light of day”. That is exactly what each and every one of us does; to safely reach the light of day. Join me in welcoming and listening to more of Donald Rubinstein’s collection of songs. Thank you Donald for saying yes. I hope to sit with you one day and listen to you playing the piano and singing; perhaps even singing along. What a rare treat that would be. ~ Always Natalie
Dawn Imagined (Dawn of The Dead Sketches) CD
Product Description
I am pleased with my new CD release on Perseverance Records. It affords music important to me a vibrant and darkly creative context in which to be heard.
The music presented here is drawn from different times in my career. A good portion of it is based on themes I wrote when I was discussing the possibility of scoring “Dawn of the Dead” with the director, George Romero. The “Dawn” themes sprang from a strongly felt artistic simpatico that existed between George and myself – a shared understanding and dedication to the creative spirit.
When I ended up not composing the score the themes I’d written began a life of their own. One set extended into a series of electronic pieces, written and recorded in Roswell, New Mexico in 1987. I took pleasure in developing the musical ideas which had held up nicely in the almost 10 years since I’d written them. “Music For Chamber Orchestra” (1981) also came out of the themes I sketched out for “Dawn of the Dead.” Its extrapolation into a concert work became one of the most dedicated compositions of my early career. That piece was largely written in Nova Scotia. Go figure.
The music contained on “Dawn Imagined” spans a period of about 30 years and so there is perhaps a journey to be had. I hope you enjoy it. John Kruth speaks to that and more, in his interesting and much appreciated liner notes.
Please let me know what you think. My sincere gratitude goes out to you, my listening audience, and compatriots of the soul. I hope you find herein the mystery I delighted in exploring, while composing this work.
Donald Rubinstein, January 28, 2014
Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Track Listing:
2. Dawn Imagined B. (3:05) (1987)
3. Dawn Imagined C. (5:38) (1987)
4. Longing Theme (:54) (2007)
5. Roswell Highway (4:09) (1989)
6. Dawn Imagined D. (2:32) (2007)
7. Dovining (6:52) (1983)
8. Music For Chamber Orchestra (based on thematic ideas for DOTD) (7:38) (1980)
9. Valley of Pain (2:47) (1995)
10. Life Gets So Corrupted (3:41) (1995)
11. Fugue For Motorcycle (For the short experimental film “Absolutely Nothing… 22 Miles”) (7:00) (2012)
12. Birth of Death (3:18)
Product Reviews
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Dawn of the dead – In an other way
Posted by Marcell Dukay on 16th Mar 2014
It was good to discover how Mr. Donald Rubinstein imagined the world of Dawn of the dead. This is a very beautiful music with some great songs (even my wife liked the album!) so I recommend this CD to anyone who likes background music of films. And, of course, this is a very special release! Thank you, Perseverance records,
Marcell from Hungary
