Bare Bach, Vivid Vivaldi

Summer's done and leaves are gone:

branches bare, and death's begun

to take its toll on the living one

whose active hands are not yet done.



Sound, summoned from somewhere deep inside,

strikes from string an imaginary ride

upon vibrations far and wide.

Here is life, and death must hide.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bVRTtcWmXI

While bare branches inspire a sparse domain

'twixt Bach and Perlman's music without name,

some strenuous feat is being strewn upon a stringy frame

as spider spins his precious game.

Bare-branched strains give way to woven strands

so, through ages, some vivid virtuoso stands

to spin a web of Stradivarius demands;

Vivaldi's winter surrounds Samuelsen's hands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KxzuY0fJ-s



Smoke