BTW, I did this little fantasy using part of JSB's melody before Cavatina was ever made popular with the film The Deer Hunter in 1978. My piece was done in 1976. So maybe he stole it from me?? Hahahaaa
You folks really seem to waste a lot of time talking about nothing of importance but I guess that is what forums are all about.
BTW, if I'd have wanted to make an "arrangement" of JSB's piece I wouldn't have done it like this. This little improv was thrown together one afternoon before a concert. I'd bought an octave guitar in a music store during the day and wanted to play something in my concert using the instrument. I sat in my hotel room and began fiddling with the parts of the theme and that was that. Sometimes the simplest things can have the biggest effect on a listener who is not interested in the brass tacks of whether something is correct, pure, or intellectually tantalizing. They just enjoy it for what it is, a piece of music.