This started out as a unique arrangement of the hymn, “Be Still, My Soul,” but I decided to turn it into an original composition for piano and cello. At the time, I imagined playing this piece with my dad. I wrote the first few pages of this piece and kept going, basking in the lovely web of sound I had created, thinking this to be a marvelous composition that could bring peace and comfort to everyone who hears it.
Today, I look at this piece and find it to be a bit overboard in the “warm and fuzzies” department. I still really like the sound, and I’ve created quite a few interesting rhythms and melodic combinations, but the piano part is so complex. I couldn’t play it at all. I wanted to write what would sound good on Finale. Even if the piece also sorely lacks in harmonic variety, I admire the ambition and vision I had in writing it. The picture I had in my head was that of a person (myself) praying, pleading for guidance and comfort from the Lord. The cello is meant to represent the Lord answering those prayers. It is He who gives rest to the weary and the heavy laden. I also quote from the melody of “Be Still, My Soul” a few times.
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