Report #21 -- 6 July 2009

This week's poem is nary a week old. Does anyone say that? "Nary"? It comes from "Ne'er a" as in "never a." In which case, this use is wrong. The poem will be a week old, quite soon. "After the Storm" comes from a spell of re-reading Bashō on the night of an amazing storm that swept through our valley. The kind of storm that makes you feel like Victor Frankenstein.

And the music! One of the greatest performances I've ever seen was the Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra with the Brush/Street Band pulling off the schizophrenic Suite for Chamber Orchestra and Jazz Piano Trio by Claude Bolling. In this episode, we have the third movement, "Enjouée," performed by the English Chamber Orchestra, Jean-Pierre Rampal conducting.

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