Cavatina Piano

Theme music from the film "The Deer Hunter"
The piece had been recorded by classical guitarist John Williams, long before the film that made it famous. It had originally been written for piano but at Williams' invitation, Myers re-wrote it for guitar and expanded it.
In 1973, Cleo Laine wrote lyrics and recorded the song "He Was Beautiful".

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[grantyboy1007]

this was originally composed for piano, by stanley myers, but john williams made it more famous as a guitar piece and the theme tune to the film "the deer hunter" by simply transcribing it for the classical guitar.  so i am not surprised that it can be this beautiful on a piano, but people expect it to only sound good on the more famous transcription on the guitar, but are very wrong - i personally have no preference to any version - but aside from peoples mistakes about this - very well played!

[dizzysfingers]

@grantyboy1007 thanks for the comment. click on Show more in the description too..  cheers

[grantyboy1007]

@dizzysfingers ohh - so it was not myers that composed it - it was williams and myers transposed it for guitar ... i see :)

[dizzysfingers]

@grantyboy1007 you were right Stanley Myers wrote it originally for piano. and Williams invited Myers to rewrite it for guitar.. John Williams just played it.

[grantyboy1007]

@dizzysfingers also, i have just printed the same version as you were playing i think, and iv only just realised how hard it really is to get the right feeling into it ...

[dizzysfingers]

@grantyboy1007 thats true.. theres more to it than meets the eye.. lol

[1putty1]

so beautiful -

[duynguyen123]

Wow !!! You blew me away ... Did not expect this from piano but certainly i was wrong, big time. What separates you from the others is how you pour so much feeling to this piece. Very nice. My pleasure listening.

[sadie4me2]

wonderful playing of this beautiful piece for piano.....i will listen to this again :) thank you for sharing.

[jan0201]

I think Dizzysfingers played this music better than others, I love his version.

[grantyboy1007]

@dizzysfingers yes ... it looks simple enough, not too many stretches but its just putting the passion into the music that really counts in this :)