Quotes about pianist, page 5
Suite Characteristique
(dedicated to Mr. Piotr Anderszewski, a gifted pianist)
you travels
around in and out
of my heart and soul
why can't you be believed in?
walls of the truth
can beautify your path
but your desires blind your honest
with or without you, I keep on going, love
you smiles
to forgotten soldiers
where I can put my last hope
when all white doves are destroyed?
(inspired by Gustave Caillebotte's Paris Street, Rainy Day)
poem by Ahmad Shiddiqi
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The White Dance
1. Music again is heard.
The pianist stood up to name a dance.
And in the view of all
I go to You to have now my chance.
R.: I ask today for dancing only You, and You from all.
And that's not a mistake, that a dance is waltz.
Like a wind whirl the dance will turn us,
Oh, this white dance will surely serve us,
If it will make us real friends tonight.
2. Waltz fly above the earth,
Kind as a friend, and white as a snow.
May be this waltz for long
We shall remember in our thoughts.
R.
song, music by David Tukhmanov, lyrics by I. Shaferan, translated by Lyudmila Purgina
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A ramshackle piano in a junk yard!
I cannot play any instrument
But I can hoot aloud against the unjust!
I just pressed a reed and in a low pitch
I heard this; ' Frederic Francois Chopin,
Do you remember a Polish pianist?
I suffered from poor health
And I died in Paris in 1849
At the age of 39.'
I want to say him that I have been to Gdynia
And I saw apple cheek beautiful girls in the dance of Mazurkas.
But I was dumbfound and I felt like a dummy run in the life theater
Or behind the stage as an unkempt underprivileged!
To my friend robyn selters in gra
poem by Nimal Dunuhinga
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Ballade d'amour
(dedicated to Mr. Krystian Zimerman, a great pianist)
a rich ethnographic
a vaulted ceiling
ornate windows
carved glasses
colorful lace
floral patterns
folk embroidery
priceless codices
lyrical and dramatic
narrative qualities
contemplative
elegiaque
wh ite stones
wooden benches
decorated frescoes
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poem by Ahmad Shiddiqi
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Élégie pour les papillons
(dedicated to Mr. Lang Lang, a gifted pianist)
dark
gloomy
an elegy
an adagio
dreary battlefield
muffled bells
scream
tears
a thundering
interrupted
calmed
lonely
up and fall of
human spirits
battle trumpets
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poem by Ahmad Shiddiqi
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Etude Magnifique
dedicated to Mr. Pierre-Laurent Aimard, a great pianist)
lovely aspiring pillars
row thatched cellars
royal hunting lodge
the Isis shrine
amber road which passed through
Gothic frescoes in its sanctuary
contiguous mosaic fragments
the fine Baroque doors
the vast interior
the family estates
the ceremonial halls
a sea of blossoms in June
novel
virtuoso
complex
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poem by Ahmad Shiddiqi
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Bread and games
They told me I should sing
But I didn't know what to sing
So I asked
What do you want me to sing
Sing bread and games
Bread and games and sing a long
And so I sang
And BANG
The pianist was shot
He had too long a finger
He had too short a thumb
And he was dumb
The said and you sing
Sing bread and games
Bread and games and sing a lot
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poem by Miroslava Odalovic
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Staccato Corrida García Lorca Shot
are you already dead
slain symbolism pierced
staccato corrida García Lorca shot
bull hero philosophy hide arenas cheered
flesh ad bone shifting cape elite confused
quivering muscles mouth viscous blood-red
law spurned poet dramatist painter stirred
expert pianist guitar player classically skilled
poetic phenomenon freedom liberty sacrifice taught
light a thousand flamenco fires of darkness reason confronted
thou are but subterranean biology like all matter endowed
with but a spark of lust life easily ambushed betrayed snuffed
Extract from the poem ‘A Thousand Flamenco Fires’ by Terence George Craddock
poem by Terence George Craddock
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Paradise Either Way
Sleeping in a hammock
Between two palms.
A dancer of my dreams
Enhancer of all charms.
- My woman visits me
As in slumber I do sway
Said she wanted to be free.
Man, it's paradise either way.
I awake on tropical beach
White sand carpets the shore.
Her kisses are out of reach.
She has another at her door.
As they peruse their favourite clips
Of her latest Shakespeare play.
A Pina colada at my lips,
It's paradise either way.
Sunlight plays upon blue water
Like a silent pianist.
And sparkles like the ring he bought her.
As I reminisce of our first kiss.
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poem by Kevin East
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Opus
There was a widow pianist
Who plays most pristinely
That would drag your feet
Into an emollient waltz
But you would never hear
The banshee caterwauling;
His opus.
There was a limped painter
Who paints in fluid levity
That extends such gaiety
To purge the ashen scene
But you would never see
The withering canvass;
His opus.
There was a smug architect
Who design most intricately
That your eyes and mouth gape
Musing in an ornate beauty
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poem by Norman Santos
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