We’d just got back from the beach.
I pulled out a book, she put on a CD.
Peaceful, floaty music.
Music to paddle-board to.
But then it changed.
The tempo picked up, the violinists
Played furiously
Like The Two Cellos playing AC/DC.
It was ‘Winter’ by Vivaldi.
I thought, what’s there to get worked up about
With Winter?
Spring, yes, but Winter?
Sluggish, soporific Winter.
But those violins were working up a storm.
You do get storms in winter —gusts, gales, blizzards.
I wanted to get up and fight someone.
Bloody Vivaldi.
One minute I was paddle boarding, the next
I was tumbling in the wild surf.
You just can’t trust classical music.
have you ever come across a piece of music, rock or classical, that changes stride suddenly and drastically?
John Malone 
I remember buying an LP on the basis of the cover from a band called Opeth. Never heard of them. Started listening with headphones on. It started soothing and beautiful So I turned the volume up. Bug mistake. Suddenly switched to growling singing and metal. Ears rang for days.
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Love that 🙂 no, I haven’t heard of them either but I do know how compellingly attractive album covers were in the days of vinyl 🙂
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All I think of is “Age of Aquarius”, but I know I am missing a better example.
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I know that one well; will try to think of other examples
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I was standing in the train station once and needed to kill time because I was too early for an appointment. There was a street musician playing a cello. Usually I have various associations with music. But this time I felt pure super-strong sadness not associated or connected to anything. I just felt a strong urge to cry and not about anything in particular. And then I had to go and I never found out the name of the song. I searched but I hated all the cello music I could find and they all had slow passages or uneven feelings– nothing as pure as I had heard. It’s hard to explain an unattached emotion not connected to an event. It never happened again. It’s always about something.
Side note: That’s one of my pet peeves about Classical music; I’m really enjoying a passage and it’s building to a place I want to go and then suddenly they stick in a slow passage — I don’t care if it’s artistic or clever or skillful: I want to go where I was about to go. I’m an admirer of famous excerpts, but I wish they would finish them properly and not just put them in commercials and movies. I remember hearing classical music in old cartoons. They were great. I even remember that once a cartoon character was lamenting about Shubert’s Unfinished Symphony, and in the cartoon they actually finished it — wonderful (don’t know who the composer was, but it really fit the style perfectly and was fully orchestrated).
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thanks Doug; I really enjoyed reading that —- it’s a wonderful response to my little poem. Thanks. Was that a Peanuts cartoon you were referring to? Cartoons can encapsulate so much in a few panels.
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