Plaisir d'amour

Plaisir d'amour

Jean-Paul-Egide Martini

Plaisir d'amour ne dure qu'un moment.

chagrin d'amour dure toute la vie.

J'ai tout quitté pour l'ingrate Sylvie.

Elle me quitte et prend un autre amant.

Plaisir d'amour ne dure qu'un moment.

chagrin d'amour dure toute la vie.

Tant que cette eau coulera doucement

vers ce ruisseau qui borde la prairie,

Je t'aimerai me répétait Sylvie.

L'eau coule encore. Elle a changé pourtant.

Plaisir d'amour ne dure qu'un moment.

chagrin d'amour dure toute la vie.

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The pleasure of love lasts only a moment

The grief of love lasts a lifetime.

I gave up everything for ungrateful Sylvia,

She is leaving me for another lover.

The pleasure of love lasts only a moment,

The grief of love lasts a lifetime.

"As long as this water will run gently

Towards this brook which borders the meadow,

I will love you", Sylvia told me repeatedly.

The water still runs, but she has changed.

The pleasure of love lasts only a moment,

The grief of love lasts a lifetime.

The Kesh Jig

An Irish Cat

Cindy's Jane Austin tour in London, England, September 2013

"The Jane Austen tour footage is a combination of video from the Jane Austen annual parade held in Bath, England each year, some footage of a lovely gentle waterfall in a park and the swans gently swimming in Hyde Park in London, England.  All of this video was filmed in September 2013 when I was in England celebrating my 40th birthday with a much awaited 4 day Jane Austen tour and some additional time in London, England"
~ Cindy M.

The Flower Duet, from Léo Delibes opera Lakmé

Click here to listen to voice
Wikipedia entry on The Flower Duet

Sheet music for flute duet

Cheek to Cheek, Irving Berlin

This is the Atlantic Ocean, captured from the point of Bearskin Neck, Rockport, MA.

Music

Bear Skin Neck Information

Christmas Blogcert, 2013

The Franklinoc Flute Ensemble

The Coventry Carol ~ Traditional English
Silent Night ~ Franz Gruber
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing ~ Felix Mendelssohn
Angels We Have Heard on High ~ Traditional French
O Come, All Ye Faithful ~ John Francis Wade
Away in a Manger ~ James R Murray, Martin Luther
O Holy Night ~ Adolphe Adam
The Christmas Song ~ Mel Torme and Bob Wells

Sources:

Video

Quartets and Trios

Duets

A blast from my past

This is Cesar Franck's Violin Sonata in A Major, transcribed for flute.

"The Violin Sonata in A was written in 1886, when Franck was 63, as a wedding present for the 31-year-old violinist Eugène Ysaÿe.^[1] Twenty-eight years earlier, in 1858, Franck had promised a violin sonata for Cosima von Bülow. This never saw the light of day, but it has been speculated that whatever work Franck had done on that piece was put aside and eventually ended up in the sonata he wrote for Ysaÿe in 1886.^{[2]"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin_Sonata_(Franck)#Background}

CPE Bach

Goliath donned the largest of his burgundy coats and stepped out onto the farmhouse porch to look up at the sky.  He noted that it was a mottled slate and umber.  An unusual day. His pale hand, rising up from a giant pocket, smoothed back angular hair, but his expression remained crumpled.  Goliath hesitated, then trudged down the rickety steps toward the crop fields.

There, he saw that the wheat had turned turquoise, likely because it was Monday.  Sometimes on Wednesdays it became the pale pink of a cherry blossom. He saw that the wheelbarrow stood empty still, at its strange up and down angle. Just as they had left it there last year. "Zelda" whispered Goliath.

She came floating from the wheat, her skin blue, her gown buttoned to the collar, a conservative ankle length navy.  A pink belt, from which hung a curious key, that unlocked some unknown thing, wrapped around her waist.  And in her pallid blue hand rested a bright silver flute.  The mottled sky mirrored on its curvature.  Goliath smiled.  She did not always appear.

With Zelda poised magically atop the up and down wheelbarrow, Goliath pushed it through the wheat crops.  Note after crystal note spun from her flute, penetrating the earth and sky while turning the wheat to bright yellow gold.  Goliath smiled, enchanted, upon Zelda.  He would have yet one more year.

Painting by Alex Dobrowsky

“The Flute Player”
Tempra on board
12” x 14” @ $820 (framed)
http://www.artpostgallery.com/musical.php

Flute music by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Hamburger Sonate in G Major Wq.133
Allegretto