Transcript
Michael Karmon
Dreams Laid Down for solo guitar
I. Swirl of Finches II. Change III. Wind Musician IV. IV. Gateway Ga teway V. If Nothing Else VI. Dreams Laid Down ca. 15 minutes
Based on poems by Janice Notland from her collection Dreams Dreams Laid Down.
SWIRL OF FINCHES A Swirl of finches roller coaster through thinning branches atop a cedar, blessing with a flourish as deft as a wand. Displacing handfuls of snow they fall needles like miniature loggers laying bare new seeds. Diving in tandem, folding back in unison, carving off snow heavy in March, fooled into thinking it was spring. Listen now over there— another distant sound; a continuous buzz of a chainsaw, contrasting sharply the silence of snow sealing up the land. But oh these finches survive, know so much require so little, it renews my heart with awe and joy.
CHANGE I don't want to talk about crying, how he broke my heart when he left this world much too young. I want to sing a song about grace cascading down like waterfalls into unsuspecting laps hungry for change. Ricocheting around mountain tops, tumbling down over thick valleys of green. I want to sing about life, of one door closing and another opening, love blown in by a breeze from a world undreamt of.
Like a tumbleweed we just keep rolling along, twisting and turning on a dry prairie wind. Preparing us for the final opening and closing of which we have, no control.
WIND MUSICIAN
IF NOTHING ELSE If nothing else, I love the way the sun plays on tortoise's checkered back, plodding along in a slow study of economy. Compared to the running display of the sun's dappled rays— it's a board game of opposites.
The wind composes the elusive shade across serrated edges lining a weathered poplar tree.
DREAMS LAID DOWN
Rippling with a ragtime beat vibration sets the motion dancing wild and silent.
Dreams laid down on pillowcases of silk need no washing.
Chords rise up a grooved face.
Words slide off as easily as icicles down a slide,
Skyward leaves looking down swell plein-air notation, floating together in breezy composition.
GATEWAY Nightfall of dreams, things gone over, problems resolved, different ways shown of solving dilemmas. Busy all night with times of deep rest taking us to a world of slumber. Upon waking, to catch but a glimpse of the shores we have travelled, people we have befriended befriended discussing our earthly situations. Gateway to heaven speak to me at night that I may find my way.
So we stumble, we fall we sink or we swim we laugh or we cry but we never stop moving. moving. All poems copyright by Janice Notland, and reprinted with her permission.
landing in clear pools of crystal water.
written for Alan Rinehart
Dreams Laid Down I. Swirl of Finches
Michael Karmon
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II. Change Tender, hesitant hesita nt q = ca. 94
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V. If Nothing Else Lively q = ca. 154
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