As the notes ebbed and flowed
beautifully filling all sound, my
relaxed thoughts touched upon
the land of birth of the composer,
to the city where he spent his life,
to Aud a senior cyberfriend from
there, recalling the majesty of the
fiord nearby, her childhood on the
farm by the large inlet, her young
experiences under German occupation,
close submarine pens, bombing raids,
a school demolished by an errant bomb,
much collateral damage and many deaths
somehow, just as in the composer's music
all was eventually overcome, life went on,
peace returned, the composition ended;
roaring, repeated, standing applause we
gladly look forward to our own Symphony's 
next monthly promising musical presentation.

Herbert Holzbauer
© November 2004

Midi: "Piano Concerto in A.opus.16,Mov.2"
Composer: Edvard Hagerup Grieg
Sequencer: Moclin Yaskawa
(www.classicalmidi.co.uk)

Photo: Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra
(www.gj.symphony.org)