07 January 2015
Bagatelle No 3 -
This very short piece (just over two minutes) represents a sudden outburst of intense happiness at seeing the first signs of spring after a long, miserable winter.
Hence it's sub-title : Joie de vivre . It is in a sense the musical expression of a poem I wrote recently which reads:
How lovely is the sudden smile,
Warm and friendly - enough to beguile
The coldest, saddest heart awhile
'We're here together - you're not alone'.
It brings a touch of glorious spring
To winter's dark, oppressive sting
When on bare bough a linnet sings:
'We're here together - you're not alone'"
@Michael Thurstan Bassett. Vignettes of boyhood and other poems.
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Wishing us all a lovely spring!