to spring
by richibi
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according to long tradition, the 21st of March
has been the first day of spring, but yesterday,
the 20th, two people in separate encounters,
told me that spring had started that very day,
throwing my entrenched supposition out the
window, for better or for worse
regardless, spring has now, surely decidedly,
sprung
here’s Beethoven celebrating it, though the
title, “Spring“, was probably not his, others
mostly gave his works their nicknames, for
their own, usually associative, reasons – his
“Moonlight” Sonata also, for instance – but
that’s been ever enough for me, it’s the
music that ultimately matters, I think
the “Spring” Sonata, opus 24 then is for
violin and piano, his 5th such, written in 1801,
it is an early piece, full still of the verve we’ve
heard here already in his Opus 5, no 1 for Cello
and Piano, with his musical phrases flying
right through the bar lines and off the very
page
Kyung Wha Chung plays the violin, she
remains after all these years my very
favourite violinist
and have the greatest of springs,
whenever you might want to start it
R ! chard
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