Music, Poems, Opinions, etc.
All musical people seem to be happy; it is to them the engrossing pursuit; almost the only innocent and unpunished passion.
(English writer and clergyman Sydney Smith)
Ode to Haddonfield (date). Poem by Dave Seidell
Mayor Dave Siedell read the poem at my 2025 birthday party bash, and I subsequently set it to music (explained Valentines Day teaser).
Ode to Haddonfield Valentines Day teaser Valentine’s Day 2025. Video of Haddonfield photos (__/__/2025)
Trust Proverbs 3:5-6 (date) CORRECT SCORE. IS PROVERBS 3:5-6.
Trust :: PDF – Full score (9/30/2025)
Evangelical friend gave me a card with this quotation in 1976. I’ve carried it in my wallet ever since.
Flanders Field (date). Poem by John McCrae [in score, fix text probs, and and brasses at end]
I wrote this song for Joe McElroy, Haddonfield’s ‘town singer’ and ardent member of our Americanl Legion Post 38.
Every Memorial Day town observation, Joe read this moving poem to the crowd.
Romance/Fantasy (date)
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Tell story here.
Romance/Fantasy Video, 9:37 mins. with score. Dad’s original plus my fantasy, which I wrote according to my memory of the first tune only, before I had seen dad’s original score with second theme.
Hannah Suz (date)
Hannah Suz (waltweid.com Hannah page)
Tell story here.
Lord’s Prayer :: Virtual Chorus, instruments (_/_/2026)
Lord’s Prayer :: Virtual Chorus, organ, piano (in waltweid.com) (1/3/2024)
Lord’s Prayer :: Video. Including “Trust in the Lord.” Virtual Chorus, organ, piano (in waltweid.com) (1/5/3/2023)
Lord’s Prayer :: PDF – Full score (9/30/2025)
Ginny Video (date)
The story: Ginny asked me to write a song. Of course, I went along….
Ginny This is the Ginny page. Where is the audio file? (In cheidenbacher?) (date)
It’s true, as the song goes. She asked me to write a song. Of course I went along. Now, Ginny was my first love, back is 1958-59. But she broke up with me and broke my poor aching heart. We remained fast friends for a few years. Sixty some odd years later I called her out of the blue, and we renewed our friendship, and I visited Cincinnati the following year. Ginny was married, and we enjoyed a great time catching up. Then came the song. We visited a few years following and continued to talk on the phone, during which time her husband died. Ginny moved into an old people’s home, and died in April 1966.
A Haddonfield Idyll Video Michael Doheny, Will Powell (date)
A Haddonfield Idyll Video Tish Columbi narration (date)
Tell story here.
A Ring Around Your Finger By my Father (1935, resurrected in 2021) [get link from waltweid.com]
A Ring Around Your Finger Video with photos of my parents back then.
Full page at waltweid.com/ring
Tell story here.
List of my poems From waltweid.com.
Retirement poem