Description
This is the forty-fourth destination in the collection of the series "Ragtime at the Red-Light District." This piece is set at Dusseldorf’s Hinter dem Bahndamm.
The main character in this piece is a 30-year old theremin player & avid traveler. This person spends every day searching for new ideas to write melodies as the person travels to a different city every 16th day. But every nine trips, the main character has one city in mind to always go back – Dusseldorf. This trip was even special because the main character accomplished so much on this endeavor. The journey began with the main character performing his works along Königsallee on a brisk, sunny afternoon. The journey with the person accomplishing other things at other notable places of interest, including bungee jumping off the Rheinturm, confessing sins at St. Lambertuskirche and even performing more theremin works at Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus. But the main character had one other secret few people ever knew – the main character is also a psychic. During the performance at Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, this person convinced all 15876 people in attendance, along with another 38025 strangers, to join in an historic event; that was because the main character had predicted Fortuna Dusseldorf, who was sixth in the standings, would win the Bundesliga title on home soil.
So the main character escorted all 53901 people to Espirit Arena to watch Fortuna Dusseldorf play rival FC Koln. All thought the main character was just playing a ruse, but in a matter of seconds, the unthinkable happened. Dusseldorf scored a winning goal, and with results going their way (SC Paderborn winning at home against Bayern Munich; Greuther Furth winning at Dortmund; Heidenheim drawing at RB Leipzig; relegation-threatened Darmstadt winning at Hamburg; Erzgebirge Aue winning at FC Kaiserslautern), Dusseldorf won the Bundesliga.
Everybody was excited, and one random stranger came to thank the main character for the prediction. As a reward, this stranger gave the main character a predication – nine hours before the rooster crows for sunrise, the main character will find a suitable woman to love. So, with guided spirit, the main character sprinted to Hinter dem Bahndamm, where thousands of women roamed the busy streets. But it was a flaxen-haired maiden, having toiled in rigorous labor for months without respect, that caught the main character’s attention. They first met at exactly 8:23 pm local time – exactly nine hours before the rooster crows, and it would be love at first sight. The hidden psychic had his turn of anticipated fortune.
This piece had a format of 4AABB4ACC4AA. Bob Dufford’s religious hymn “Save Us, O Lord” and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Novelette” were the basis for this piece. Dufford’s influence is particularly evident in the A section, while Rimsky-Korsakov’s influence comes from the transitional phases heading into the A sections twice.