Abana in Heaven for Erhu and Guitar

Posted on March 28, 2020 by ralunn

Abana alathi fi ssama/Abana in Heaven is a beautiful piece of music by Laila Constantine. In this recording I am playing with my friend, Tsun-Hui Hung. She recorded her part in Hawaii and I recorded my part in Michigan and then combined the two performances. Here are the lyrics…

Abana in heaven

Hallowed be Your holy name

Your kingdom come

Your will be done

In all the earth as in heaven

Your kingdom come

Your will be done

In all the earth as in heaven

And give to us give us this day

Our daily bread

O Lord we pray

Forgive our sins as we forgive those

Who have sinned against us

And save us in time of trial

Deliver us from evil

Yours is the kingdom Yours the power

Yours is the glory now and forever

Abana in heaven Amen

Amazing Grace for Erhu and Guitar

Posted on March 22, 2020 by ralunn

Today is Sunday and many churches are closed because of the Corona virus so we thought we would record this. I hope you enjoy it!

The Godfather Theme for Erhu and Guitar

Posted on March 21, 2020 by ralunn

The Godfather for Erhu and Guitar

I am collaborating with a friend from grad school. I have been stuck at home for the last week because of the corona outbreak and it has been fun collaborating with her. Such a beautiful piece and I think she plays so beautifully.

Magnificent Mountain for Mandolin Orchestra

Posted on March 17, 2020 by ralunn

Magnificent Mountain for Mandolin Orchestra by Rob Lunn

This is the world premiere performance by the En Masse Orchestra led by Jim Bates at the Classical Mandolin Society’s national convention. The performance took place at the Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois on October 12, 2019.

I had a ton of fun at this conference. I enjoyed meeting people, doing workshops and working with the orchestra. The score/parts is available at my website http://robertlunn.com

The piece was inspired by a trip I made to the Smoky Mountains last June (2019). One day my son and I drove up into the mountains and it was amazing to me see how the landscape changed. At times, when the fog was heavy, it was very mysterious. At other times, when the sun was shinning it was very magnificent. I tried to covey those feelings in this piece. The instrumentation is: mandolin 1, mandolin 2, mandola, mandocello, classical guitar, and double bass.

Here are a few pics from the conference:

Speaking about the piece before it was performed.

New Album Available!!

Posted on March 14, 2020 by ralunn

I just released a new album!! This is a collection of arrangements I’ve made of some of my favorite songs:

Available (click the picture) at:

Purple Haze Arranged for Guitar

Posted on March 6, 2020 by ralunn

I’ve been a huge fan of Jimi Hendrix since I was in middle school and Purple Haze is one of my favorite songs of his. I decided to finally arrange it for guitar and it wasn’t easy, especially the solo. How do you arrange the solo and still have fingers available to play harmony parts???

Score/tab is available at Sheet Music Plus (Click on the picture below)

Leviathan

Posted on March 3, 2020 by ralunn

Leviathan is a piece I composed a few years ago. I started messing with techno beats in Cubase and started improvising to them. I would say that 90% of this came from one of those improvisations. Score/tab is free at my website.

I am finishing up another album and messing around with album cover ideas. None of these will work but here are a few…

This one might have possibilities….

Letter From Home (Pat Metheny)

Posted on March 1, 2020 by ralunn

Letter From Home

Here is my arrangement of the Pat Metheny classic, Letter From Home. This is a piece I have always wanted to arrange and I finally did it. I ended up transposing and dropping it down an octave to make it work. Score/tab is available at Sheet Music Plus (Click on the picture).

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