for Lew Saul
1)
Perfection: Mozart’s Piano Concerto no. 20
Delight: Beethoven’s Sixth (“the Pastoral”)
2)
Lew Saul reads my two-line poem for him
(See above) and adds
“Le Sacre du Printemps for air-conducting
on a perfect breezy spring day in Paris
47 years ago” in my room,
where he also played recordings of
Tchaikovsky’s Fifth, Beethoven’s Grosse Fugue,
Berio's Sinfonia and Mahler's Second (scherzo)
and Frank Zappa at the Fillmore East, 1971.
Bravo, Lew. And here’s a piece by
Eduard Toldra, “Nocturno,” which I don’t know,
do you? It seems to be a prelude
to Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio in A minor
which itself seems to be a prelude
in the sense Wordsworth gave the word – DL
Click here for the third movement of Luciano Berio's "Sinfonia," which Lew Saul has championed.