30 Pieces
Hanks of horse tail
Fractured hair
Slipping pegs and
Rosin dust
Memories of these tunes
I used to play as a kid
Hadn't heard them in many years
One page each or
Half-a-page
In this book with a blue cover -
'Thirty Violin Pieces You Love To Play' -
Like hell!
Like hell at the time anyway
Maybe three or four I liked
I liked tunes with flavor -
Hot goulash...Hungarian zest
Spanish dances
Arabian stuff fast with scimitars camels -
There were two serenades
One by Drdla
One by Drigo
Mischa Elman played
On a 10 inch Victor label
I would play the brittle shellac over and over
Thread-bare
They were in the book -
'Thirty Violin Pieces You Love To Play'
Maybe four dog-eared pages
The rest?
POOF!
Then
A friend sent me this CD -
'Thirty Violin Pieces You May Have Forgot'
Played by ___________
Never mind
Let's just say the guy is TREMENDOUS!
Not since Elman!
No tone like this since Elman!
Not since those threadbare serenades
He plays all the tunes were in my book
I shivered
Goose flesh
I wept
I danced around the room
I love everyone
I played the disc over and over
Contained within -
All the tunes I'd skipped over
All the tunes I was too young to grasp
AND the two serenades Ah
Plus
Albeniz's Tango
Song of India
Salute D'Amore of Elgar
Scheherezade
NAILA!
Many more
Oh how young I feel!
Oh the sound!
Oh the images!
Oh the love!
So?
It isn't so bad
This getting old
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