Morning Mood

"Morning Mood" (Norwegian: Morgenstemning i ørkenen, 'Morning mood in the desert') is part of Edvard Grieg's famous Peer Gynt, Op. 23, written in 1875 as incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play of the same name. It was also included as the first of four movements in Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46.

Beautiful!

Pensive. Today is anothre one of those dark and seemingly gloomy Sunday. But just because the skies are falling and I'm social distancing doesn't mean I have to sit around doing nothing... I'm blissing out on some of my favourite easy listening classic music. Here's one:  Grieg's "Morning Mood". 




Got to give this day the chance to become another beautiful day in a life...


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Good-bye again

We have loved and gave too much but nothing seemed good enough. I'm reminded of something a great South American poet Pablo Neruda said in one of his poems on Farewell and sorrows ... 

"So play the waltz of the serene moon,
the barcarole in the water of the guitar,
until my head lolls dreaming:

that all the sleeplessness in my life weaved
this arbour where your hand lives and flies
watching over night of the sleeping traveller."

We learn to leave softly and quietly. Move on from where we are not appreciated. I will no longer impose myself where my shadow is not needed.   

Listening pleasure: 

Since my youth, many moons ago, I've loved this piece.  Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 3, Op. 90 "Poco allegretto" 3rd movement. Uploaded by Jack Gibbons. Accessed May 7, 2018.  With the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir John Barbirolli, recorded December 1967. Another version of this 3rd movement is performed by SNU Symphony Orchestra.

Soundtrack from movie Goodbye Again (1961). "Say no more, it's Good-bye", sung by Diahann Carol. Music by Georges Auric and Johannes Brahms. Lyrics by Dory Previn. 

Say no more its goodbye 

As before its goodbye 

Every move, every sigh 

Seems to prove its goodbye again.

Say no more its goodbye 

As before its goodbye 

I can tell, save the lie 

Its farewell and goodbye again my love.

So why deny you will leave me

You have in the past 

If it isn't the first time 

It wont be the last.

Say no more its goodbye 

As before its goodbye 

Every move, every sigh 

Seems to prove its goodbye again 

Say no more its goodbye 

As before its goodbye 

Its my fate, this I know 

I must wait 'til you say hello again.

Note: Aimez-vous Brahms (Do you like Brahms?) is a novel by Françoise Sagan, first published in 1959. It was published in English in 1960, and was made into a film under the title Goodbye Again in 1961 starring Ingrid Bergman and Anthony Perkins.

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From travels and sorrows

"From travels and sorrows I returned, my love,
to your voice, to your hand flying on the guitar,
to the fire that with kisses interrupts the Fall,
to the circling of the night in the sky.

For all men I ask for bread and kingdom,
I ask for land for the farmer without fortune,
let no one expect respite from my blood or my song.

But I cannot quit your love without dying.

So play the waltz of the serene moon,
the barcarole in the water of the guitar,
until my head lolls dreaming:

that all the sleeplessness in my life weaved
this arbour where your hand lives and flies
watching over night of the sleeping traveller."

~ Pablo Neruda ~

Thanks to a Swiss friend, Ilse, who shared this poem at Facebook.


(c) May 2020.  Tel. Leaves from my Musings. All rights reserved.