Every now and again, I compose a musical song that seems so beyond that which I feel capable of composing. This is one of those songs.
Over the 50 years we have known each other, I have composed 6 songs for Ruth, beginning as a Freshman in College. This most recent song was composed around this time last year.
Ruthie’s high school graduation picture.
When I sat down to compose this song the only thing I knew was that I wanted it in 5/4 meter. The melody and the harmonies just came into my mind and I translated what I heard in the musical program on my computer. I have composed many songs over 50 years. This is, in my opinion, my finest piano composition.
Psalm Offering 9 Opus 9 (c) 2018, Robert Charles Wagner. All rights reserved.
Ruthie in 1973, one year before we married.
Ruthie and our 4th child, Beth, 1984.Ruthie, picture taken in a couple of years ago.
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I am a composer, performer, poet, educator, spiritual director, and permanent deacon of the Catholic Church. I just recently retired after 42 years of full-time ministry in the Catholic Church. I continue to serve in the Church part-time. I have been blessed to be united in marriage to my bride, Ruth, since 1974. I am father to four wonderful adult children, and grandfather to five equally wonderful grandchildren. In my lifetime, I have received a B.A. in Music (UST), M.A. in Pastoral Studies (St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity, UST), Certified Spiritual Director. Ordained to the Permanent Diaconate for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, in 1991. Composer, musician, author, poet, educator. The Gospels drive my political choices, hence, leading me toward a more liberal, other-centered politics rather than conservative politics. The great commandment of Jesus to love one another as he has loved us, as well as the criteria he gives in Matthew 25 by which we are to be judged at the end of time directs my actions and thoughts.
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