SOME FRENCH PIANO MUSIC

This poetry reading is tonight.  It promises to be quite an evening.  Hope you locals can make it

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Here is a little poem on French Piano Music that I filled up with some of my favorite early 20th century composer.  I very much enjoy their music composed for the piano, vocal music and clarinet as well as much of their chamber music.

SOME FRENCH PIANO MUSIC

Tonight I will follow the plain

Out to where the adagio lives,

Where the Pavane is still danced,

Where the melody takes the bass

Out against the cloth of night

And presses it as close as breath.

Where we are the prayer in

Ravel or Poulenc or Satie,

Or Deodot de Severac, or Faure.

France comes to our bed and

Caresses us as we have never

Been touched before.  It settles

In our heart and in our hands,

In our memories of something we did

Early on in life, when every day was long

And every night, longer still.

We will keep this close.  We will

Breathe and the music will pulse

Through, yet remain and we shall sleep

In the hands of the masters.