Wondering if I could reclaim
An earlier passion
Creation of music
Collected brass from pawn shop
Shiny cornet like youth for a song
Polished and oiled pistons
Washed and purged pathways
Pensively blew softly to warm nape of neck
Mouthing piece to remember where everything goes
Stepped onto deck in the forest to standing sequestered ovation
Bathed in lunar spotlight concert hall
Hearing the strings in my mind
The fingers remembered what to do
Sustaining note echoing off leaf strewn hill
Cheerful climbing caress to hold one step below
Hunted deer crowding night time perimeter
Stealing into my oaks acorns
Getting even with taunts
Snort and wheeze in derisive contempt
At my impromptu presentation
Flee declared cacophony
Of my symphony of solo cornet
Leaving me to serenade the moon
Nobody listens to critics
Anyway...
Author notes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2Oe3nkQji8
yes. I can play it on trumpet (Bb), and french horn (F)
A contest entry
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Comments
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I should very much like to hear this piece on French horn, since it has a darker voice than the cornet, more like the cello's brass counterpart. How lovely to play in such a place. Perhaps the deer was enjoying it more than you know. I enjoyed this piece.
Camille
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Amazing, thank you for entering and good luck!
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Clappies
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I don't know the Arioso in B flat but the making of music is always interesting to read about. Definitely, don't listen to the critics.
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Did you listen to the link? That is the song...It is done here on cello.
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I can see you doing this playing your heart out to the deer in the moonlight. How wonderful to have a talent such as this the rust will wear off I am sure of it. Beautiful you =)
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Very impressive. You have great talent in your writes.
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Impressive. Thank you for entering.
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Lots of colour
This is vivid, imaginative and colourful and does justice to the prompt and with movement too!
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The nuance created in this write with the onlooker is beautiful. I felt like I was there and watching myself. You have grown considerable beyond me in word usage and I say bravo. It makes reading you all the enticing. Pray all is well in your world with you and yours. RC
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Music has charms to soothe the savage beast - keep practising! When the noise becomes music, you'll know!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSWgw8pZ50E&feature=related
I found a copy of Randall Thompson's Allelulia. It is haunting, beautiful as wind, waves, flames and forests... -
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Yes, this is beautiful, and haunting.
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JM. i am an underachieving musician. Played for 6 years in school, laid of for 12, then joined a community band, The Shreveport Metropolitan Band. Played in church some, too. Never paid, though. My sis was a a concert bassoonist, Brother was a pedigreed band director. Other brother, french horn; little sis, violin and guitar. Mom and grandmom played piano. Dad had a degree in music education in vocals. Choir director. For his 80th birthday, we had a reunion, and I brought music and a keyboard and we all sang Randal Thompson's Alleluia. Me and my brothers are tenors, but I was carrying the bass and dropping out when it got too low. Dad wondered over, joy on his face. Sat by me, I hoped to tighten up the bass. I pointed out where we were on the chart, but when he sang, he was tone deaf. He had performed this, one of his favorite pieces literally hundreds of times. That is when we discovered he had began his TIA's (small strokes).
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This made me smile at the thought of you and your audience in a clearing beneath the moonlit sky. I imagine it would have been a concert like no other on earth
Thanks for telling us the tale and all the best in the contest.
Sue x
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Actually, I yelled at the deer- "What? Opinions are like (blank*) everyone has one!
One buck rubbed the bark off a 40mm pine tree with his antlers one year, ten steps of the steps of the deck!
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I loved the sequestered audience! And deer and rabbits both are harsh critics.Bears can be darn right hostile ones.but luna always listens.
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