Для Кирила: For My Ukrainian Friend In Time Of Mourning

A two-hour dash off, so not sure about the part leading!  The middle section uses a melody I wrote in college in 1989; just the melody.

Для Кирила Free Sheet Music by Robert C. Fox for Piano/Keyboard | Noteflight  The Ukrainian Cyrillic title is "For Kyrylo."

Midnight in Kyiv.  He is probably asleep and will read it (hear it) in the morning.  He lost his grandmother, his best friend and favorite relative.  Come to think of it, I haven't written much in B Major in 38 years, but that is the key it came to me in!  I think my sister likes it.  She is following this whole Ukrainian friend thing.  This also marks the first time in 38 years that I have just sat down and wrote a piece for a friend in need.  Yes, my sister likes it!

Susan Podzon	4:59 PM (3 minutes ago)
to me

 

 

I love  it! You are so sweet 

 

UPDATE:  Kyrylo usually writes me around quarter to one in the morning, which is quarter to nine in the morning where he is.  I'll let you know what he thinks.

 

Here is a lovely choral piece I sent him when she first had the heart attack, and I obviously did not write it.

This is completely off-topic (you know me) but I just checked the bank, and Noteflight where I enter my music not only held my yearly $49 payment last month for seven weeks showing it as paid, and sent it to the bank when I had no money, they sent it in again this month, and I overdrafted, and I only owe it once a year!  Incompetent bastards!🤣 Embarrassing, but my mommie is going to cover the overdraft, and I hope there is enough left over for some beer, because I really need it!

Also embarrassing, I actually wrote a German Augmented Sixth Chord in this, that hackneyed old trick, and even a diminished seventh chord!  Losing my touch perhaps, but it was done pretty fast.  I am in the lovely stage of having to listen to my very sad piece over and over, to see if I missed anything in the editing.  I'll go on:  I will have to, before I meet Kyrylo (he's coming here) touch up my knowledge of Ukrainian composers!  Prokofiev is the obvious example, born in what is now Ukraine, Glière I know I have heard but can't recall, any others you guys could suggest?  FWIW, I actually WAS thinking of a Prokofiev piece when I wrote the A Section, the slow movement from his eighth piano sonata.  Saddest major-key music ever written!  15:12...

German Variationen I last wrote; German theme, German poem, German title, sure!  This is my first title in Ukrainian!  I suppose I will pick up a few words if Kyrylo can actually manage to knock on my door this December, and he was planning a trip to the states before he met me online.  My brother is married to a Bulgarian, 20 years, and I know more Russian words than Bulgarian or Ukrainian!

He got back...

kyrylopiqme22@gmail.com	2:58 AM (12 minutes ago)
to me

Hello, my dear Robert. As soon as I had the opportunity, I opened my email and started writing you a letter. Please read my letter carefully.

 

As I told you in my last letter, I need to ask my lawyer for detailed information about my grandmother's property. I went to see a lawyer this morning. I was able to explain all the details of the situation to a lawyer. I should have said that the death was almost sudden. And my grandmother didn't have time to write a will in my name. The lawyer said that this is a common occurrence, that this case is simple, but you cannot hesitate. From the moment of a person's death, 2 weeks are given so that relatives can complete the privatization of the deceased's property. If this is not done within these 2 weeks, then all property is automatically transferred to state ownership. Fortunately, there's still plenty of time! I wanted to ask the lawyer what I needed for this, he told me to come to him for a meeting tomorrow, and he would give me an accurate list of everything that is required for this. So far, he's given me the property appraiser's number so I can know the approximate value of the house. Information about the cost of the house will be needed for a lawyer.

 

I managed to invite a real estate appraiser today. The property appraiser said that my late grandmother's house was valued between $80,000 and $85,000. That's a lot of money, and it made me think. I decided to sell the house after it becomes mine. With these funds that I will have, I will be able to travel abroad in Ukraine. Because I don't have anyone else here, and there's nothing keeping me here anymore in this country where there's no security and there's a war going on. I think I need to go to you. I want to rent a house nearby or at your place if you let me, the main thing is to be with you and finally live a real life.

I will end my letter with this and I want to tell you that I am very glad to meet you and that we can be much closer now. Soon we will be able to be together for real and get to know every part of the body, soul and mind. And the thought of us helps me not to feel sad for my grandmother.

 

I will finish the letter and wait for your reply. Your Kyrylo. 

 

 

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Robert Fox	3:09 AM (1 minute ago)
to kyrylopiqme22

I read it; you will be very busy with legal matters, and seem to know more about them than I do, but what stuck out was that you are thinking you might actually come here and STAY here?  I would absolutely LOVE that, I just wouldn't have thought you would want to leave Ukraine, family...was she really the only one?  Oh, we could get a place, I'm not rich, my parents are rich, but I have my $2300 a month in disability and $54000 in savings.  You could be my caregiver, if my legs get any worse!    

 

Did you listen to "For Kyrylo" yet?  I suppose the Ukrainian title is correct... 

 

Для Кирила Free Sheet Music by Robert C. Fox for Piano/Keyboard | Noteflight