As the author of the book of Ecclesiastes points out, there is a time for everything. I believe this is a time for a little self-promotion, musically.
For the past 48 years, I have been busy composing music. As a classically trained musician, what I compose sounds and is classical or liturgical music. This being said, I am not a musical snob. I grew up with the folk music movement in the 60’s, and am very much in love with folk music, international folk music, jazz, the blues, the many different facets of rock and so on. I play guitar, 5 string banjo, as well as piano. The only standard I place on these many facets of music is that they are played well. They are played “musically.”
For the past three years, I have been transcribing all the handwritten scores of music I have composed from 1970 to the present to a digital format. After a devastating car accident in 2002, I quit composing for a number of years because the injuries I sustained prevented me from performing as I had prior to the accident. I have since overcome that hesitancy and have gone back to composing music again.
All the piano music I have composed is now published through CD Baby and can be bought digitally (I am working on the CD part of this presently) on iTunes or Amazon Music or the CD Baby site. There are 8 collections, or opuses, of music, generally, anywhere from 8 to 12 songs per album. To listen to the music beginning with Opus 1 from the early 70’s to Opus 9, which I have just completed composing is to hear an aural history of compositional development. In the 70’s I was experimenting with the different facets of musical periods of Classical music, from baroque to romantic, to impressionistic, to modern, to serial music. Over the years, I have developed my own style of composition. If I were pressed as to what album is my best effort, I would say probably Opus3, the Christmas Psalm Offerings, or Opus 7, the Lamentation Psalm Offerings. They are not what I would call “whistleable” tunes, and are a bit more abstract, at times dissonant. However, they would be my more creative works.
On the other hand, Opus 2, Opus 4, Opus 6, Opus 8 and the recently composed Opus 9, would have the more mass appeal to people.
I would describe the music as meditative. With the exception of two of the songs, most range from 2 1/2 minutes to about 5 minutes in length.
If you are interested in hearing the music you can get samples at either iTunes or Amazon. They should also be on some of the streaming music networks like Spotify, as well. Look for music composed by Robert Charles Wagner (in classical music you need to sound more formal e.g. Johann Sebastian Bach. Ludwig Von Beethoven and so forth.) I believe they are also on uTube, as well.
links to the music are as follows:
http://store.cdbaby.com/cd/robertcharleswagner
http://store.cdbaby.com/cd/robertcharleswagner2
http://store.cdbaby.com/cd/robertcharleswagner3
http://store.cdbaby.com/cd/robertcharleswagner4
http://store.cdbaby.com/cd/robertcharleswagner5
http://store.cdbaby.com/cd/robertcharleswagner6
http://store.cdbaby.com/cd/robertcharleswagner7
