Will Godfrey - Lost Dreams

The Story
This was the very first piece of music I composed on my (then brand new) Yamaha SY22, with the luxury of programmable voices and 20 note polyphony. How far we have come since the heady days of 1990! It is quite a sombre melody.
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Childhood Past
This was inspired by looking over old family photos, and is a very gentle melody.
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Footsteps
This is four linked themes. A State Procession, The Old Man, Runners In The Park, Marching Band. Originally they were separate ideas languising in my musical bits box, but after a day watching walkers in a park I had the idea of putting them together.
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Awakening The Avenger
The cries and suffering of countless innocent victims down the centuries eventually awakens the ancient one from an eternal slumber. Then, at last, incensed by what it finds it strikes, destroying all in its wake. Only when balance is restored does it return once more to its unknown lair.
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Reflections
An old man remembers friends and lovers.
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The Story Continues
I revisited The Story to produce this, having lost the original. As these things happen, it turned up again as soon as I completed this version. I think I prefer this one, but you are the listener so you chose!
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Jacqueline
The first time this tune hit the air was in the late 1960s when I played it on a home-made zither at a talent contest. It didn't win me anything.
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A Dream For The Future
This is a lazy but flighty melody that dips and swirls. It came to me when most of the other tracks were completed and the title demonstrates it's more relaxed, pastoral feeling.
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Where Have They Gone
World weary, the traveller returns to her childhood hometown. The streets she remembers are gone, as are all her friends and family. She is a total stranger, and too late, standing in the cold empty railway station, remembers her fathers advice to never try to return to the people and places she loved.
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Who Cares
It seems that 3am is the time I have my gentlest, most pensive inspirations. However on this occasion it was back in 1994. For all these years I've been able to do nothing with the snatches of melody I recorded at that time. It took another all-night session to go over everything then make a fresh recording from scratch.
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The Last Piece
This was always intended to be at the end of something, but I never really thought out what, so it is on the end of this. A friend of mine used to be a church organist and the chords I use here are very much the sort he would have used.
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