There I was sitting and listening,
Listening to the music on the radio
Enjoying every moment.
But then it happened,
A piece of music so familiar,
So familiar to me
But played in such a way
That it took my heart,
Took my heart into a new place,
A place to wonder and beauty.
The sound just entered my body,
My body and soul,
Such a wondrous sound
Creating such beautiful feelings,
Beautiful feelings within me.
The way it was played
Had such feelings within it,
The feelings of the pianist
Transposing Chopin into a new world,
A new world of glory
That took me to that place,
That place where love, peace and beauty
Exist for eternity.
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Author:
Goldfinch60 (Pseudonym) (
Offline) - Published: May 31st, 2021 00:57
- Comment from author about the poem: Written after hearing Angela Hewitt playing Chopin’s Nocturne Opus 9 Number 1 on the radio. YouTube does not have a recording of this so this is Nocturne No 2.
- Category: Reflection
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I dedicate this poem to Angela Hewitt.
Andy
Your belief in that place: 'hope you are right, Andy.
True Dave, it is there and my wife is waiting there for me.
Andy
Good write Gold.
Why Schubert not finish one of his Symphonies - the Unfinished one?
Maybe he was going to add words to it, but remembered I might sing it. Or did he never get round to finishing it? heehee.
Thanks Orchi.
Well you asked the question - here is the answer:#
"Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D 759 (sometimes renumbered as Symphony No. 7,[1] in accordance with the revised Deutsch catalogue and the Neue Schubert-Ausgabe[2]), commonly known as the Unfinished Symphony (German: Unvollendete), is a musical composition that Schubert started in 1822 but left with only two movements—though he lived for another six years. A scherzo, nearly completed in piano score but with only two pages orchestrated, also survives.
It has been theorized by some musicologists, including Brian Newbould, that Schubert may have sketched a finale that instead became the big B minor entr'acte from his incidental music to Rosamunde, but all evidence for this is circumstantial.[3] One possible reason for Schubert's leaving the symphony incomplete is the predominance of the same meter (triple meter). The first movement is in 3
4, the second in 3
8 and the third (an incomplete scherzo) again in 3
4. Three consecutive movements in basically the same meter rarely occur in symphonies, sonatas, or chamber works of the most important Viennese composers.
Schubert's Eighth Symphony is sometimes called the first Romantic symphony due to its emphasis on the lyrical impulse within the dramatic structure of Classical sonata form. Furthermore, its orchestration is not solely tailored for functionality, but specific combinations of instrumental timbre that are prophetic of the later Romantic movement, with astonishing vertical spacing occurring for example at the beginning of the development.[4]
To this day, musicologists still disagree as to why Schubert failed to complete the symphony. Some have speculated that he stopped work in the middle of the scherzo in the fall of 1822 because he associated it with his initial outbreak of syphilis—or that he was distracted by the inspiration for his Wanderer Fantasy for solo piano, which occupied his time and energy immediately afterward. It could have been a combination of both factors."
OK now do you understand.
Andy
Yes thanks Gold.
Ahh, it 's just a legend that he thought I was gonna sing then! lol.
That's beautiful, so nice to read. I love music, music has the power to soothe us, to transport us to another world.
Thank you Jay, it certainly does, it has transported me for all my life.
Andy
I was taken the first time i heard Eva Cassidy sing Somewhere Over the Rainbow. A familiar song but Eva sang feeling into the lyrics. It became a familiar anthem for the olympics and she had already passed away. To beautiful to be among us the remainders possibly.......... " Why oh why can't I "
Very true d a, my wife and daughter went to a tribute show to Eva Cassidy and my daughter, she does not show her emotions very much, admitted that she did not want to leave her seat at the end of the show as she could not stop her tears from flowing and sis not want others to see them.
Music is is very powerful in our lives.
Andy
A new world of tranquility
Very true PrEm.
Andy
Someday we'll all be there Andy. And your wife waits patiently for you with the smile you long to see. ; )
Oh Yes, I will be there with her, thank you AP.
Andy
Another up-lifting read dear Andy - your pen speaks of that time when loved ones unite in peace and beauty which like good music will rule every heartbeat and exist for eternity.
Thank you so much for your kind words Fay, much appreciated.
Andy
Thank you. My wife plays the piano. She and I are old now but now and then her playing brings me, perhaps not to a new world of glory, but to that old one I had been so fond of. Thank you.
Music has so much power in our lives, may those memories forever be with you.
Andy
... sounds uncommonly good GF60 ..
... and my word, eternity is a mighty long time innit ...
Thanks Neville.
Eternity is forever.
Andy
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