Composer
imagining my self lying down
on the earth curve face down
in the smell of grasses herbs and flowers
there the blackbird
couched on the dry earth
silently opening and closing his beak
spanning his wings
sunning and preening
watching the bees sucking sage
the ants scurrying the red brick wall
and clouds pulling over the sky
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Veronica Satie/ Virginia Scott -Piano / Modern Pianisits out-take
Eyes Completely Open/ David Bowie ( transcription no 3) for solo oboe, was originally written for oboist Catherine Pluygers. This recording is by Oboist Jennifer Porcas. The words ‘eyes completely open’ come from the song Absolute Beginners by David Bowie, which song haunted me during the construction of this piece. Listen in and you will hear it.
This recording of Eyes Completely Open by oboist Jennifer Porcas. at Shaftesbury Old Meeting House by Ricky Gardiner.
i feel the memory
of the
swan
as she
nested
under my skirt
reminding me of
*the tin drum
a book my father
gave me when i left
home in 1970
‘something to read on the plane’
he said
‘if you want to know
about the war its
all in there ‘
twenty years later i finally
read it
*The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
The Swan Dream- Virginia Scott- Piano/ Modern Pianists/ out-take
