Saturday, August 22, 2020

August 22 - Claude Debussy (The Musical Birthday Series, 2nd Annual Cycle)

Claude Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) is among the most beloved composers in classical music.

[For last year's posts on Debussy and Stockhausen click here.]


Sentiment de continuité


When at the piano,

Late or soon,

You’ll have to study

“Claire de lune.”


And aged aunts, who

Hear you play,

Will sigh and nod

Their heads of gray,


And when you’re done, and

They have smiled,

They’ll say they played it

As a child --


Just as you will 

On that day

When you in turn hear

Nieces play.

 

 

 

 

 

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