tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45627959674703694432023-11-16T05:50:09.966-05:00Soloflute?Joshua Smith
on playing with loveJShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01204057477604881166noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562795967470369443.post-58426446172852212962014-07-16T10:35:00.001-04:002014-07-16T10:37:12.547-04:00"It Says What We All Think"It's been a while. Maybe I'm getting started again? Or jumping back onto a continuum? Or refreshing an interest in recording thoughts as they happen (other than in quick Facebook tweets).<br />
I'm endeavoring to live in the moment as presently as possible. Usually that means being inside of it and having it pass, not always thinking about it. But I'm lucky to have utopia time at Marlboro, which fosters for me a sense that every day will always exist, and this inspires me to step back and to wonder... Does recording thoughts by writing or by taking pictures help or hinder this? Will remembering be a way of leaving the present for the past? Or is "bookmarking" now a way to savor the present, hoping that that these now-feelings show up again in the future?<br />
Monday my favorite thing was the A<span style="text-align: center;">mish in line at the Thruway McDonald's in Angola.</span><br />
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Tuesday my favorite thing was uplighting a fern, transforming my new room for the next 5 weeks.<br />
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Wednesday's just beginning and so far, my favorite things are waking up to steady rain and coming across <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/247882#poem" target="_blank">this poem</a>.<br />
Of course, I might not even publish this. It's just for me. Just like all my Facebook posts, and who cares about any of those?<br />
Writing might be just a way to think. Or remember. Or savor. For now, I'll just go enjoy what happens for the rest of the day.<br />
<br />JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01204057477604881166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562795967470369443.post-27425511009094113322014-03-04T14:34:00.000-05:002014-03-04T14:37:39.978-05:00Chatting with Fred Child From a February, 2014 <a href="http://performancetoday.publicradio.org/display/programs/2014/02/21/" target="_blank">interview with Fred on Performance Today</a>, check out Hour 2 to hear a little more about Ensemble HD and "Live at the Happy Dog".<br />
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JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01204057477604881166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562795967470369443.post-64044234601889473462014-02-13T23:02:00.001-05:002014-02-13T23:03:43.034-05:00<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
An experiment: interested in <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23LiveattheHappyDog&src=hash">#LiveattheHappyDog</a>?
visit <a href="http://t.co/XtP4gGCgMv">http://t.co/XtP4gGCgMv</a>.
Like it? The above # in a tweet earns an album download!<br />
— Joshua Smith (@soloflute) <a href="https://twitter.com/soloflute/statuses/434174801976913921">February 14, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Happy Halloween!</div>
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And All Saints!</div>
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And Dia de los Muertos!</div>
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<a data-mce-href="http://clevelandclassical.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/recording-review-ensemble-hd-live-at-the-happy-dog/" href="http://clevelandclassical.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/recording-review-ensemble-hd-live-at-the-happy-dog/">Cleveland Classical</a></div>
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<a href="http://thefluteview.com/2013/10/joshua-smith-live-at-happy-dog-review/">The Flute View</a><br />
updated October 31: <a href="http://www.voix-des-arts.com/2013/10/arts-news-artists-recordings-featured.html">voix-des-arts</a><br />
updated January 2: <a href="http://www.analogplanet.com/content/ensemble-hd-live-happy-dog">Analog Planet</a> and <a href="http://www.voix-des-arts.com/2013/12/year-in-review-best-of-2013.html?m=1">Voix des Arts Best of 2013.</a><br />
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AND OTHER COVERAGE<br />
<a href="http://www.analogplanet.com/content/ensemble-hd-live-happy-dog" target="_blank">Analog Planet</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.abqjournal.com/214195/news/have-fun-there-is-never-a-wrong-time-to-applaud.html">The Albuquerque Journal</a></div>
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<a data-mce-href="http://64.234.215.170/sv062913.mp3" href="http://64.234.215.170/sv062913.mp3">STRICTLY VINYL on WWFM</a></div>
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<a data-mce-href="http://arts.gov/art-works/2013/cleveland-sudsier-side-symphonies" href="http://arts.gov/art-works/2013/cleveland-sudsier-side-symphonies">INTERVIEW National Endowment for the Arts NEWS</a></div>
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<a data-mce-href="http://blog.westaf.org/2013/09/what-i-have-learned-blog-2013-edition.html?m=1" href="http://blog.westaf.org/2013/09/what-i-have-learned-blog-2013-edition.html?m=1">More from the NEA via "What I Have Learned"</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22617217">And, the BBC!</a></div>
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JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01204057477604881166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562795967470369443.post-10965579831016121842013-10-14T13:17:00.001-04:002013-10-14T13:25:23.484-04:00Interpreting Pierrot<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">At the top of my list of experiences this past summer was the opportunity to collaborate with <a href="http://www.sfcmf.org/concert/music-of-the-masters-sunday/mahler-songs-of-a-wayfarer/">some white-hot colleagues</a> on a couple of really special performances of Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire" at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. This time I wanted my preparation to focus on the practically psychedelic atmosphere created by the expressionist poems that make up the cycle. So I decided to translate them- referring both to the German translations used by Schoenberg and to the original French of Giraud that inspired Schoenberg to write the piece in the first place. Frustrated by the English versions I was finding in program notes, I wanted to find my own way into the heart of these texts. And so instead of translating verbatim, I decided to go for essence that I could feel directly. If I could give myself goosebumps with a rearrangement of a few things rather than just taking the language literally, I would. I like them, and I loved the project- one a day for the 21 days of Schoenberg's "three times seven." And so I want to save them somewhere: why not here? It was a dark place to go in the summer, sure, but I want to go back there sometimes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wine we drink with our eyes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">the moon gushes in nightly torrents,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">and tides flood</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">the silent horizon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Too many longings to number, gruesome and sweet, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">swim through the flood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wine we drink with our eyes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">the moon gushes in nightly torrents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The slavishly devoted poet,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">drunk on the sacred liquor,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">enraptured, turns his face to heaven,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">and, staggering, sucks and slurps up</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">the wine we drink with our eyes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">Pale moon blossoms,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">fantastic white roses,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">bloom on July nights.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">I yearn to pick one!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">To soothe my deepest sorrow,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">I wade through darkening streams to find</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">fantastic white roses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">All my longings would be satisfied,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">if I dared to sprinkle,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">gently as a fairly sprite, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">pale moon blossoms </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">over your brown tresses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />With a ghostly light ray</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">the moon illuminates the crystal flasks</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">on the dark altar: the holy sink</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">of the taciturn dandy from Bergamo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the resonant bronze basin</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">faucets chortle a metallic clang.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">With a ghostly light ray</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">the moon illuminates the crystal flasks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Pierrot stands deep in thought, his complexion waxy: what makeup for today?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">He shoves aside the red and oriental green </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">and paints his face sublimely </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">A pale washerwoman</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">scrubs faded garments at night. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">Naked, silver-white arms</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">stretch down into the water.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">Breezes tiptoe through the clearing,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">Lightly ruffling the stream.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">A pale washerwoman</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">scrubs faded garments at night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">And the gentle maiden in the sky,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">fondled softly by tree boughs,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">spreads her linen of moonbeams</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">across the dusky meadows-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">a pale washerwoman.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">5. </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">A Chopin Waltz</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Like a drop of pale blood<br />stains a sick one's lips,<br />the seduction of annihilation<br />lurks within this music.<br /><br />In wild strains the chords disorder<br />despair's icy dream,<br />Like a drop of pale blood<br />stains a sick one's lips.<br /><br />Hot and exulting, sweet and yearning,<br />gloomy melancholic waltzes,<br />my senses can't release you!<br />You cling to my thoughts<br />like a drop of pale blood.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">6. Madonna</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Join me, Mother of All Sorrows,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">at the altar of my poetry.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">The raging sword has drawn</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">blood from your withered breasts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">Your wounds, always fresh,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">are like eyes, red and open.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">Join me, Mother of All Sorrows,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">at the altar of my poetry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">In your emaciated hands</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">you hold the body of your Son.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">He is seen by all- </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">but you are seen by none,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">O Mother of All Sorrows.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">7. Sick Moon</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Dark moon, deathly ill,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">languishing on heaven's black pillow,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">your swollen, feverish eyes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">captivate me like a strange song.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Suffering from insatiable love,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">your yearning deeply smothered,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">dark moon, deathly ill,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">languishing on Heaven's black pillow. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Recklessly aroused, the lover searches</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">for a paramour. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Amused by your play of light, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">your pale, melancholic blood, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">dark moon, deathly ill.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />8. Black Moths</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />Gloomy black moths</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">have smothered the sunshine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A closed book of magic spells,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">the horizon rests in silence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mists from hidden valleys</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">exhale a scent that blocks memory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Gloomy black moths</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">have smothered the sunshine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Gliding down from the sky </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">on iron wings</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">the invisible monsters</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">descend upon our human hearts...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">gloomy black moths.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">9. Pierrot!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 22px;">Pierrot! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I've forgotten my laughter! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Clarity is blurred by tears!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The flag flies </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">black on its mast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Pierrot! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I've forgotten my laughter! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Give it back to me:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sprit Healer,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Poet Snowman,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">King of the Moon,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Pierrot- my laughter!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">10. Regal Red Rubies</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 22px;">Regal red rubies, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">drops of blood from ancient glories,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">sleep underground</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">in hollow shrines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">At night, Pierrot descends </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">with his drunken bandits to ravish the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">regal red rubies, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">drops of blood from ancient glories.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But they stop, dead in their tracks: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">from the coffins, eyes stare back</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">through the murky gloom, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">regal red rubies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">11. Red Mass</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For the gruesome communion,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">under blinding golden flashes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">in flickering candlelight,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Pierrot approaches the altar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">His hand, consecrated,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">tears open the divine robes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">for the gruesome communion,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">under blinding golden flashes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Making the Cross,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">he shows the sufferers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">his heart held in bloody fingers,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">a dripping red wafer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">for the gruesome communion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">12. Gallows Song</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The scrawny wench</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">with the long neck</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">will be his last lover.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Like a nail in his brain, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">she is stuck in his thoughts,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">the scrawny wench</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">with the long neck.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thin as a pine tree,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">a pigtail around her neck,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">she gives the fool </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">a strangling embrace: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">the scrawny wench.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">13. Decapitation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The moon, a polished scimitar </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">on a black silk cushion,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">looms unusually large</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">through the gloomy night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Pierrot wanders restlessly,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">staring up in anguished fear</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">at the moon, a polished scimitar</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">on a black silk cushion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">His knees tremble, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">he stumbles and falls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">He imagines the hissing vengeful steel</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">falling on his neck in judgement-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">the moon, a polished scimitar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">14. Crosses</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Poems are crucifixes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">on which poets bleed silently,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">blinded by vultures </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">in phantom flocks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Their bodies ravaged by swords</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">that revel in scarlet streams,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">poems are crucifixes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">on which poets bleed silently.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Death has come, curls straightened,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Far away from the beastly noise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The sun rests its head, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">a glorious crown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Poems are crucifixes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">15. Nostalgia</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Lovingly plaintive, a crystalline sigh</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">from Commedia dell'arte,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">these days, we complain that sentimental Pierrot</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">has lost his meaning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">He hears through his heart's wasteland</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">a frequency resonating in all of his senses,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">lovingly plaintive, a crytalline sigh</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">from Commedia dell'arte.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">Now Pierrot puts aside his tragic mask.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">By the pale moon,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">on a frothy flood of light,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">his yearning sails bravely up to the sky,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">lovingly plaintive, a crystalline sigh. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">16. Wickedness</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">Into Cassander's bald head,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">whose shrieks are ear-piercing, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">Pierrot bores the drill bit,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">feigning tenderness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">Then he tamps</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">rare Turkish tobacco</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">into Cassander's bald head,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">whose shrieks are ear piercing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">Screwing a cherry pipestem,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">through the polished surface, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">he sits back to smoke </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">his rare Turkish tobacco</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">from Cassander's bald head. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">17. Parody</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">With knitting needles sparkling</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">in her grey hair,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">the governess waits, mumbling,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">in a red skirt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">She lingers in the arbor,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">loving Pierrot desperately, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">knitting needles sparkling</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">in her grey hair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">Suddenly, she hears a crackle,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">the breeze whistles sharply,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">the moon laughs mockingly,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">and mimics the shimmer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">of her sparkling knitting needles.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">18. A Bit of Moon</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />With a bit of moon</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">on the back of his black coat,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Pierrot sets off one balmy evening</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">to seek his fortune.</span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Suddenly he notices </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">something strange in his pack.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">He casts about until he finds it:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">a bit of moon on the back of his black coat.</span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"A fleck of plaster!" he thinks, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">and tries and tries to wipe it off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So he continues on his way, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">rubbing fruitlessly until dawn</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">at a bit of moon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">19. Serenade</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">With a grotesquely large bow,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Pierrot scrapes on his viola.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Like a stork on one leg,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">he plucks a doleful pizzicato.</span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Suddenly Cassander comes to rage</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">at the virtuosic serenade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">With a grotesquely large bow,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Pierrot scrapes on his viola.</span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">He tosses the viola aside,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">and with his left hand delicately</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">takes the bald man by his collar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Dreamily he plays the baldness</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">With a grotesquely large bow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">20. Going Home</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The moonbeam is the rudder, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">lily pads are the boat</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">on which Pierrot travels south,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">the wind at his sails.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The river hums deeply</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">and rocks the light canoe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The moonbeam is the rudder, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">A swarm of silly thoughts </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">All my sorrow is gone, </span></div>
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Played Bach on a Saturday afternoon at Santa Fe. And, whaddayaknow? <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/06/arts/music/santa-fe-chamber-festival-draws-musicians-but-few-critics.html?_r=0">The New York Times was there.</a>JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01204057477604881166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562795967470369443.post-89964163892832435842013-05-15T10:00:00.000-04:002013-10-14T13:44:35.689-04:00<br />
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Ensemble HD is excited to announce the arrival of "Live at the Happy Dog" on vinyl.</div>
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Click here to visit <a href="http://ensemblehd.net./">ensemblehd.net.</a> "Live at The Happy Dog" is due out on the streets May 15.<br />
currently featured there: <a href="http://www.ensemblehd.net/2013/04/19/ill-have-a-hot-dog-with-truffle-honey-mustard-and-a-side-of-webern/?fb_action_ids=10201118031577123&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582">video footage of the vinyl pressing.</a><br />
JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01204057477604881166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562795967470369443.post-24393791340772312422013-03-11T14:15:00.000-04:002013-03-11T14:15:01.445-04:00Ensemble HD Makes The Economist<a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2013/03/revolutionising-classical-music">Read it here.</a>JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01204057477604881166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562795967470369443.post-12669248886059780282013-03-09T00:13:00.000-05:002013-03-09T00:13:32.184-05:00The Record Stork Is ComingI'm redirecting you to another website. But it's for a pretty cool reason: <a href="http://www.ensemblehd.net/2013/03/09/test-pressing-of-live-at-the-happy-dog/">to see how vinyl records are made.</a>JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01204057477604881166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562795967470369443.post-48454898479912176702013-03-07T22:28:00.004-05:002013-03-08T01:36:06.974-05:00Almost Time for Vinyl<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Since <a href="http://soloflute.blogspot.com/2012/05/beethoven-and-brahms-and-bach-and.html">my last HD post</a>, Ensemble HD did a live radio broadcast for Ideastream stations in August, 2012 and recorded "Live At The Happy Dog" during two performances in December. We've been working exhaustively since then to prepare a double-vinyl release in May. <a href="http://ensemblehd.net/">Here's our new website, ensemblehd.net</a>, so you can keep up with what's about to happen. You can also hear sound samples, check out the radio broadcast, preview album art, and meet the musicians. We're all excited.JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01204057477604881166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562795967470369443.post-83571571493114396512013-02-20T01:29:00.000-05:002013-03-08T01:30:43.099-05:00New World Wood<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Here's a recent video project in which Saeran St. Christopher and I talk about a performance of Dvorak 9 and about the instruments we love.</span></div>
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OMD 4 happened at The Happy Dog last night. <br />
Excuse me. Wow. I haven't blogged in a long time.<br />
OK. Done. My headline says pretty much all there is to say. Well, almost. <br />
Here's the rest:<br />
It may have been my favorite one, but for weird reasons, perhaps. It wasn't hyped this time, which meant that it wasn't very crowded. But that was good- it was mellow. And audible. Also, I didn't play a lot, so I could listen a lot, and I enjoyed the experience.<br />
The radio guys who came seem to be excited about the prospect of broadcasting our next one live, though we will have to have a production meeting to solve kinks-- they were seriously squirming about the dead time while we reset between pieces, which never seems to bother the bar audience. Of course, the bar audience has beer in front of them, not just radios...<br />
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Omni String Quartet- Amy Lee, Alicia Koelz violins, Joanna Patterson Zakany, viola, Tanya Ell, cello<br />
Joshua Smith, flute, Frank Rosenwein, oboe, Robert Woolfrey, clarinet, Charles Bernard, cello, Charles Carleton, bass<br />
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Bartok String Quartet No. 3<br />
Bach Sinfonia for oboe and strings, Cantata 12, "Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Sagen"<br />
Milhaud Jacob's Dreams for oboe and strings<br />
Dohnanyi Serenade for string trio<br />
Bach Suite No. 2 in B Minor for flute and strings<br />
Brahms Clarinet Quintet<br />
Carter Scrivo in Vento for solo flute<br />
Britten Phantasy for oboe, violin, viola, cello<br />
Beethoven String Quartet, op. 132JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01204057477604881166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562795967470369443.post-85645409439924057332012-02-06T14:46:00.002-05:002012-02-06T15:11:28.909-05:00Ensemble HD* Sounds Again.*High Definition. Or *Happy Dog. Depending on where we play.<br />
Hear us <a href="http://www.ideastream.org/an/entry/44871">here, talking</a> about the next adventure on WCPN's Around Noon.JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01204057477604881166noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562795967470369443.post-63264030958080245472011-12-28T23:17:00.003-05:002011-12-28T23:17:29.895-05:00Artistic ChoiceDo you watch PBS regularly enough to have seen "<a href="http://video.pbs.org/video/2178515501">Arts in Cleveland... Artistic Choice</a>"? This PBS mini-doc, made by <a href="http://telos.tv/">Tom Ball</a>, is an interesting look at the funding of the really rich arts scene in Cleveland. Featuring <a href="http://www.clevelandorchestra.com/">The Cleveland Orchestra</a>, <a href="http://www.happydogcleveland.com/">The Happy Dog</a> (and our crew), <a href="http://www.groundworksdance.org/home.php">Groundworks</a>, and many others.<br />
Watch it <a href="http://video.pbs.org/video/2178515501">here</a>.JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01204057477604881166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562795967470369443.post-8613877723977953992011-11-27T18:20:00.001-05:002014-01-11T01:37:21.059-05:00Playing with love (and yearning) for PCMS<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I've put together a new recital program, "Day and Night I Call Only Love," with pianist Christina Dahl. We'll perform it Sunday, December 11 at <a href="http://www.cim.edu/calendar/main.php?view=event&eventid=1310647602692">CIM</a> and Tuesday, December 13 for the <a href="http://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/winds/product/joshua-smith-flute-and-christina-dahl-piano/">Philadelphia Chamber Music Society</a>. Juliet Woods of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pcmsconcerts">PCMS</a> posed some questions about the program:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">JW: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">How did this program come together? Why did you choose these particular pieces?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">JS: </span>This program plays with love. Romanticism as a movement (with its corresponding expressions of turbulence, its manic energy, and its embrace of the awareness of the life cycle) and romance as a journey (and the corresponding life-affirmations that come from yearning, loving, hoping, resigning, and maybe eventually finding peace) are the philosophical currents that unite all of these pieces. Curating programs is one of my great joys, and these themes intersect here on so many levels that it's hard to talk about it briefly, but I'll try:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Schumann </b>epitomized the role of the tortured lovelorn artist so completely that most all of his music seems autobiographical. While <i>Three Romances</i> has no specifically ascribed program, it embodies all of the above tendencies: it's tempestuous and yet calm, pushes and then pulls, feels simple but complicated. It's a soulful and spontaneous journey.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><b>Debussy's </b>use of Greek mythology reflected the Belle Epoque's fascination with exoticism. In <i>Syrinx </i>and <i>Faun</i>, Pan suffers the frustration of pining after elusive wood nymphs. They're intricately beautiful pieces, both connected not only to myth, but to French poetry, and both impressionistic and expressive. I've always thought of <i>Syrinx</i> not only as a tale of unrequited love, but as an exploration of creativity: Syrinx, the nymph, is transformed into riverside reeds, which Pan uses to create a flute, thus giving himself a way to express his love through music.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><b>Schubert's </b>songs explore boundaries between classicism and romanticism, using music and poetry to express love and loss. <i>Die schöne Müllerin </i>focuses on the unrequited love of a young man for a miller's daughter. In <i>Trockne Blümen (</i>"Dried Flowers"),<i> </i>the emotional turning point<i> </i>of the song cycle, the man considers suicide, equating his awareness of the seasonal cycle- that withering flowers may bloom again- with his reconciliation with death. Schubert, maybe more than anyone I can think of, played with harmony to create instantaneously shifting expressions of emotion, and the song captures psychological complexities in a very narrative way. Schubert, who had his own psychological struggles, expanded on this song's arc in his remarkably virtuosic variations for flute, so that each variation carries with it the narrator's internal struggle with yearning, his acceptance of winter/solace in death, and his vision of spring/hope for rebirth. The piece, being a set of variations, maps this psychological journey over and over, and, interestingly, manages to be more uplifting at its conclusion than the original song.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">No one would think of <b>Elliott Carter</b> as a Romanticist, but I would, at least on the basis of <i>Scrivo in Vento</i> ("I Write in Air"), call him an Expressionist. The source of inspiration for Carter was Petrarch's Rime Sparse 212 ("Blessed with sleep, and content with languor.... I'm paid with tears and grief...") Again, unrequited love tortures the narrator of the poem, and the flutist/protagonist explores his manic struggles to find peace.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><b>Carl Reinecke </b>captures these struggles, too, in his <i>"Undine" </i>sonata. Undine, a water sprite, yearns for connection to the human world so that she may have a soul. Abandoning the water, she is raised by foster parents and falls in love with a knight, but must eventually choose between this love and her natural world in the sea. Water, here, paradoxically symbolizes both consciousness and rebirth as well as subliminal yearnings, again affirming life and its crazy mysteries. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">JW: You have worked with pianist <span style="line-height: 14px;">Christina Dahl before. Tell me a little more about what it’s like to work with her.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">JS: Tina is brilliant and fun and funny. The creative process is a great adventure for us. I think she remembers anything she has ever heard, so she draws on a great wealth of anecdotes and allusions when we experiment with atmospheres and colors. She's greatly responsive, too, so even when we plan things, they don't always need to work exactly the same way twice-- there's a fantastically spontaneous feeling when we play together. And maybe the most inspiring thing I've taken from her is a sense that playing can be uncomplicated in many ways: "just get out of the way and sing" is a place that's easy to go with her.</span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">JW: Not only are you the Principal Flute in The Cleveland Orchestra, you regularly appear as a soloist and as part of chamber ensembles. I am a violinist and the prospect of juggling that many commitments seems overwhelming to me, yet you seem to manage with such skill and ease. How do you balance all these different pursuits and still have time to practice?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;">JS: I try to convince myself that all of the pieces of my puzzle are not so different from one another. If I learn how to satisfy some aspect of orchestral playing, in other words, I can usually somehow apply that to chamber playing, and vice versa. And I'm pretty much always practicing, I've noticed, whether it's in front of an audience, or in my imagination when I take my dogs out. I find that all this juggling doesn't really become easier with experience (though I'm glad it appears that way!) But it does become more and more fun.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br /></span></span>JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01204057477604881166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562795967470369443.post-25142850761171528462011-06-30T12:09:00.006-04:002011-06-30T15:51:52.403-04:00Playing Beethoven for Beer, part 3<a href="http://www.happydogcleveland.com/">The Happy Dog</a> hosted OMD 3 in 3D(ays) last night. <div><br /><div>I have to say that my group of colleagues (from The Cleveland Orchestra: Amy Lee and Alica Koelz, violins, Joanna Patterson and Mark Jackobs, violas, Charles Bernard and Tanya Ell, cellos, Frank Rosenwein, oboe, and Richard Stout, trombone, and non-TCO guest pianist Tina Dahl) is a group that creates pure working and playing pleasure for me. The audience loves them all, too.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>The bar is fantastic, welcoming, utterly relaxed, fun. </div><div><br /></div><div>Rick mentioned that what we do there is just strange enough, just undefinable enough to be slightly uncomfortable for everyone involved. <a href="http://aterrormusical.blogspot.com/2011/06/drinkin-with-bach.html">(One of our audience members echoed these thoughts in her blog, A Terror Musical, this morning.)</a></div><div><a href="http://aterrormusical.blogspot.com/2011/06/drinkin-with-bach.html"></a>And I think that's what makes it fun. Is it a concert? Is it a bar hang? Are we socializing? Are we doing outreach? Are people there to eat? To listen? We exist in a non-category there: we're not rockers, certainly, but we're also not tuxedoed maestros. I found myself hearing our music in this context in a completely new way: Ravel rocks, and so does Bach. I love imagining someone else enjoying this thought for the first time. </div><div><br /></div><div>Anyway, our set lists included music from:</div><div><br /></div><div>1. </div><div>Beethoven E-flat Major Piano Trio, op. 1, #1</div><div>Thea Musgrave Impromptu No. 1 for flute and oboe</div><div>Schumann Fantasiestücke for trombone and piano</div><div>Ravel String Quartet</div><div>Bach Double Concerto (oboe and violin)</div><div>2. </div><div>Janacek String Quartet ("Kreutzer Sonata")</div><div>Rebecca Clarke Sonata for viola and piano</div><div>Beethoven Serenade, op. 25, for flute, violin, and viola</div><div>Delibes Flower Song from Lakmé, arranged for flute, oboe, and piano</div><div>Doppler "Souvenir de Prague" flute, oboe, and piano</div><div>Tchaikovsky "Souvenir de Florence" string sextet</div><div>3. </div><div>Brahms B Major Piano Trio, op. 8</div><div>Elizabeth Raum Fantasy for trombone and piano</div><div>Poulenc Sonata for oboe and piano</div><div>Boismortier Duos for 2 cellos</div><div>Arthur Foote A Night Piece for flute and string quartet</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01204057477604881166noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562795967470369443.post-49425461451622265662011-05-23T17:43:00.007-04:002011-06-26T11:41:10.400-04:00It's Widmann Time!Jörg finished the piece, "Flute en suite" three weeks ago now? (I started getting it in installments two days after my last post, and haven't posted again because I've spent pretty much all my energy learning it.)<div>I love it. Aside from feeling a bit freaked about how the first rehearsal is going to feel tomorrow, especially with trying to assimilate the sound information that will finally be coming from all around me onstage, I'm very excited about this.</div><div><a href="http://www.cleveland.com/musicdance/index.ssf/2011/05/new_music_abounds_on_cleveland.html">Here's The Plain Dealer's preview.</a></div><div><a href="http://www.clevelandclassical.com/052411tcosmithprev">And here's ClevelandClassical.com's preview.</a></div><div><a href="http://www.wksu.org/news/story/28371">And here's WKSU's preview interview.</a></div><div><a href="http://www.schott-international.com/cms/php/Proxy.php/en_UK/smi/news/archive/show,5669.html?newsCategoryId=0">Here's the Schott preview.</a></div><div><a href="http://www.cleveland.com/musicdance/index.ssf/2011/05/cleveland_orchestra_subscripti.html">Here's the Plain Dealer Review.</a></div><div><a href="http://www.concertonet.com/scripts/review.php?ID_review=7510">Here's the Concerto.net review.</a></div><div><a href="http://www.wclv.com/page.php?pageID=465">Here's WCLV's Saturday night broadcast intermission interview.</a></div><div><br /></div>JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01204057477604881166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562795967470369443.post-91341211686029304412011-02-19T11:35:00.007-05:002011-02-19T17:49:16.533-05:00Veering Towards A New Flute Concerto<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJtuS8rV5yVB2E5V_Abt56nPbxVU0YXRJn6vFDwZq6IlrHW1ITLk3nZvxesSCMQQYE3nTrK7PhbcjVWicnVq-DFZ6ZbwVPhUJtYJXmYucMjMDLhKb9lqE4o28nqhmDxuawYfeUUKYETwNF/s1600/DownloadedFile.jpeg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 160px; height: 160px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJtuS8rV5yVB2E5V_Abt56nPbxVU0YXRJn6vFDwZq6IlrHW1ITLk3nZvxesSCMQQYE3nTrK7PhbcjVWicnVq-DFZ6ZbwVPhUJtYJXmYucMjMDLhKb9lqE4o28nqhmDxuawYfeUUKYETwNF/s320/DownloadedFile.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575456755320032834" /></a>It's been a while. And it's not that nothing interesting has been happening. Just that life has moved along faster than I've had a chance to blog about it. <div>When people ask me how I'm doing lately, I have come to realize that there's a cloud hanging over the answer: fluteconcertofluteconcertofluteconcertofluteconcertofluteconcerto....</div><div><br /></div><div>A few years ago, The Cleveland Orchestra approached me with the news that they'd commission a piece for me. Great. Fabulous, actually. I worked on listening to a lot of possible composers for a while. And I fell in love with the music of<a href="http://www.joergwidmann.com/en-home.htm"> Jörg Widmann.</a> He was commissioned. He was asked to be the orchestra's <a href="http://www.clevelandorchestra.com/news-and-media/news-releases/2010/May-03-Pintscher.aspx">Dan Lewis Young Composer Fellow</a> for 9/10 and 10/11. The concerto became the new work he would create during his fellowship. So, Dan Lewis, in effect, has become the major supporter of this concerto. I think that when Jörg's fellowship was announced, which was probably sometime in 2008, the date of performance was set: <a href="http://www.clevelandorchestra.com/event-detail/2011-May-26.aspx?pid=8343">sometime in the 10/11 season. Officially, it's Memorial Day weekend</a>, the last concerts of our main season. All Great. All Fabulous. All backstory.</div><div><br /></div><div>More catching up with history: in the summer of 2008, Jörg and I crossed paths at Marlboro and Salzburg festivals. In Salzburg, we had a great sort of jam session, talking about ideas, moods, possibilities for the new piece. We saw each other next in fall, 2009, in Vienna. The orchestra played his "Chor" on tour. We had dinner with Dan Lewis and others in Vienna, we talked about how excited we were about the project.</div><div><br /></div><div>The next time I saw him was about three weeks ago, in New York. TCO was on tour, Jörg was a guest at The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. At this point, the concerto premiere date was four months away. He's still excited about the project. And the way he talks about his ideas makes me excited, too. I'm beyond excited, though: his ideas are still "in his head." </div><div><br /></div><div>That means not down on paper yet. </div><div><br /></div><div>Almost a month later, I haven't heard anything from him. I hope he's feeling better- he was pretty sick in New York, which set back his composing schedule. He's one of those rare guys who doesn't have email, so getting in touch with him to check in is complicated.</div><div><br /></div><div>I don't think I'm complaining yet. I'm beyond excited, though, like I said earlier. (Read: "pretty freaked".) Of course, I want adequate time to learn the piece before an audience hears it. Usually, for me, that means longer than I now have for this one. It's not like I have nothing else to do in the meantime but learn a concerto, either. Concerts will keep coming and going as usual, all the way up until the Widmann finish line.</div><div>I can only imagine what he's going through, too. He knows there's a deadline. How would it be to have to create a piece, with all the pressure for it to be astonishingly successful and well-regarded by performers and audiences (and most importantly, by yourself) and know that you were running out of time to do that?</div><div><br /></div><div>So I'm blogging about it. Don't know why, really. Maybe it'll end up being interesting to someone out there. The process between now and then, if the piece doesn't end up being postponed or canceled, will be, like <a href="http://www.schott-music.com/shop/persons/featured/42423/index.html">Widmann's rep at Schott</a>, Norman Ryan, said, "a roller coaster ride." Maybe I'll keep you posted on the ups and downs, if I can catch my breath on the way.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01204057477604881166noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562795967470369443.post-52107380548511862792010-10-22T15:19:00.013-04:002010-12-02T15:30:24.416-05:00Beethoven for Beer: Orchestral Manoeuvres at the Dog<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXqeF8Et9tG_XC3r7_KJcgBVXUO3oWgtsthqARHJTvuvW97P4q7xOd7DkFnUhcldYhalVVdGoHSdgSL1W5lVg9fK-P9WKYeaSPSqnvYtglRSyDklqx7m3Wi-goSKXnhLm-VBDkHnDP9ltj/s1600/IMG_1570.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXqeF8Et9tG_XC3r7_KJcgBVXUO3oWgtsthqARHJTvuvW97P4q7xOd7DkFnUhcldYhalVVdGoHSdgSL1W5lVg9fK-P9WKYeaSPSqnvYtglRSyDklqx7m3Wi-goSKXnhLm-VBDkHnDP9ltj/s320/IMG_1570.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5530978112113394962" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><br /></span></a><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>A few months ago, I met Sean Watterson, co-owner of <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cleveland-OH/The-Happy-Dog/49480797348?ref=ts">The Happy Dog</a>, in the <a href="http://www.gordonsquare.org/">Gordon Square Arts District</a> in Cleveland at a party thrown to raise awareness of the district. We chatted, and I realized that he presents musicians at the bar regularly. How about classical? He was game, and, thus, OMD was born.</div><div><div>I galvanized some colleagues from the orchestra: <a href="http://frankrosenwein.com/">Frank Rosenwein</a>, principal oboe, Amy Lee, associate concertmaster, Joanna Patterson, viola, and Charles Bernard, assistant principal cello to join me in an evening of chamber music at The Happy Dog. We called it an experiment. And it worked: there was a line out the door and up the block for most of our first set, there were lighters waved above heads, there was raucous cheering, there was an invitation to come back. And, there was a <a href="http://www.cleveland.com/musicdance/index.ssf/2010/07/post_66.html">great article</a> a few days later in The Plain Dealer.</div><div>On October 13, we did "The Second Mouvement." We were joined by a wonderful pianist, Christina Dahl. And this time, surprisingly, we had a preview featured dead center on The Plain Dealer's front page a couple of days before, coverage on NPR and in the New York Times, and a whole lot of classical-music-blogging. (There are a lot of these. See below for links.)</div><div>I wonder what has generated all of this excitement. As some of the writers have indicated, the idea's not really new: ClassicalRevolution chapters are popping up around the country, cellist <a href="http://www.matthaimovitz.com/">Matt Haimovitz</a> has been playing Bach to Penderecki in bars for a long time, and musicians used to do this sort of thing all the time in the 1800s. I'd be very interested in hearing any theories on where all this buzz is coming from...</div><div>Here's what's exciting for me: I think that people are more than ever eager to be engaged in process, not just product. Just think about the popularity of reality shows focused on behind-the-scenes, from Top Chef to Top Model. Or the ramping up of the slow food movement, which fosters an interest in where our food comes from- how it's grown, cared for, transported to us- and which, in turn, celebrates the experience of eating. </div><div>I love sharing what I do with people. And I love that I can do this in many ways. The concert hall experience is wonderful, and our orchestra is one of the best in the world. But bringing intimacy, connection, and, especially, awareness of how spontaneous and vital and alive classical music can be off the stage and into places where people least expect to engage with it might serve to draw people into the experience in a different way. </div><div>Thankfully, we've been very well received. And very well hosted. The staff at The Happy Dog is exemplary in making us (and their crowds of excited patrons) very comfortable. I'd love to do more of these. And I'd love to explore how and when and where to do others. In even more unusual places. Any ideas?</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.clevelandclassical.com/100510happydogprev">ClevelandClassical.com preview</a></div><div><a href="http://www.cleveland.com/musicdance/index.ssf/2010/10/classical_musicians_bring_thei.html">The Plain Dealer front page preview</a></div><div><a href="http://rosebrookclassical.blogspot.com/2010/10/getting-out-of-music-museums.html">Blog post: Rosebrook Classical</a></div><div><a href="http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1662214755548&ref=mf">piano moving day video</a></div><div><a href="http://www.cleveland.com/musicdance/index.ssf/2010/10/cleveland_orchestra_musicians_2.html">The Plain Dealer Metro section coverage</a></div><div><a href="http://muzik-online.com/?p=1877">Blog post: for Chinese readers</a></div><div><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130596864">NPR Weekend Edition coverage</a></div><div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/weekinreview/17grist.html?src=tptw">New York Times Week in Review coverage</a></div><div><a href="http://music.allpurposeguru.com/2010/10/classical-music-at-bar.html">Blog post: Musicology for Everyone</a></div><div><a href="http://prarts.wordpress.com/2010/10/18/cleveland-orchestra-at-happy-dog/">Blog post: Public Relations for the Arts</a></div><div><a href="http://blogs.utexas.edu/performingartsmanagement/2010/10/19/brews-and-britten/">Blog post: U of T Performing Arts Management</a></div><div><a href="http://clueintocleveland.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/orchestral-manouvres-at-the-happy-dog/">Blog post: Clue into Cleveland</a></div><div><a href="http://www.clevelandclassical.com/101910ormandogrev">Event report: ClevelandClassical.com</a></div></div><div><a href="http://killingclassicalmusic.com/post/1425225128/musical-pairings-beethoven-for-beer">Blog post: KillingClassicalMusic</a></div><div><a href="http://www.renophil.com/blog/artmusic/818/classical-revolution/">Blog post: Reno Philharmonic</a></div><div><br /></div><div>October 13 sets included selections from:</div><div><div style=" ;font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Ernst Dohnanyi String Trio</span></div><div style=" ;font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Shostakovich Second Piano Trio</span></div><div style=" ;font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Bartok/Arma Hungarian Peasant Suite for flute and piano</span></div><div style=" ;font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">van Appledorn Incantations for oboe and piano</span></div><div style=" ;font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Brahms G Minor Piano Quartet</span></div><div style=" ;font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Ravel Tzigane</span></div><div style=" ;font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Corigliano Violin Sonata</span></div><div style=" ;font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Piazzola Le Grand Tango for viola and piano</span></div><div style=" ;font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Copland Duo for flute and piano</span></div><div style=" ;font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Bolcom Old Adam Rag</span></div><div style=" ;font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Hetu Trio for oboe, violin, and piano</span></div><div style=" ;font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Villa Lobos Jet Whistle for flute and cello</span></div><div style=" ;font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Casadesus Oboe Sonata</span></div><div style=" ;font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Fauré Aprés un Reve for viola and piano</span></div><div style=" ;font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Shostakovich Cello Sonata</span></div><div style=" ;font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Debussy/Samuzlieh Afternoon of a Faun for flute and piano</span></div><div style=" ;font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Handel/Halvorsen Passacaglia for violin and viola</span></div></div><div><br /></div>JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01204057477604881166noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562795967470369443.post-60822443147727817612010-09-26T13:19:00.001-04:002010-09-26T13:21:20.587-04:00Plays Bach with Others: First Preview<a href="http://www.cleveland.com/musicdance/index.ssf/2010/09/new_discs_by_cleveland_orchest.html">The Plain Dealer's Zachary Lewis spotlights five new recordings showcasing Cleveland that are due out in October, 2010.</a>JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01204057477604881166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562795967470369443.post-44866097328376954572010-09-18T10:30:00.007-04:002010-09-20T17:26:15.573-04:00Plays Bach With OthersDue out on Delos October 26, 2010.<div>JS Bach Sonatas for Flute and Continuo, <i>Musical Offering</i> Trio Sonata</div><div>with Jory Vinikour, harpsichord, Ann Marie Morgan, baroque cello, Allison Guest Edberg, baroque violin.</div><div><br /></div><div>Here's the trailer!</div><div><object width="400" height="258"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/i5nHzW3vUPo?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&hd=1&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/i5nHzW3vUPo?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&hd=1&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="258"></embed></object></div>JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01204057477604881166noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562795967470369443.post-82863610027075793332010-08-02T17:10:00.006-04:002010-09-01T18:22:48.260-04:00Performance Today at Marlboro<a href="http://performancetoday.publicradio.org/features/2010/marlboro/index.shtml">Performance Today visits Marlboro all this week.</a><div>(click above to hear music and interviews)</div>JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01204057477604881166noreply@blogger.com0