Klarinet Archive - Posting 001342.txt from 2000/12

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Dirge for a Lame Duck at the Bird Refuge
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 16:50:37 -0500

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From: "William Wright" <Bilwright@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] Re: Dirge for a Lame Duck at the Bird Refuge

> <><> David Endres wrote:
> I'm sure you weren't being politically minded when you wrote your title,
> but would it be appropriate music for a certain US President when he
> returns to Little Rock and sits along the river where the next
> presidential library is to be built? At least until his successor is
> inaugurated?
>
>
>
> LMAO, David. But to my perception, my dirge resolves to a certain
> element of strength and triumph of spirit at the end. It begins with
> 'open-ended' minor intervals and ends with a true musical resolution (C
> major chord in the key of C).
>
> Hey, how much 'meaning' can a person read into a piece of music?
> I still 'hear' a lame duck who flew and who expects to fly again and who
> would be content if he could stay aloft forever. But he must come back
> down to earth every few minutes, feeling better than before, but still
> faced with disability and persecution. And this is exactly what I hear
> in the end of my 'dirge' now that I've put the final touches on it.
> Clinton, I think, will be the reverse in some ways. He'll still
> be bragging and strutting when he's back on the ground, and I suspect
> he'll be grateful that he doesn't need to 'fly' any longer.
>
> ....of course, "dirge" implies dead, and she (the duck) isn't a
> dead duck yet. So the musical metaphor fails. I debated "Lament for
> a Lame Duck", but once again, the resolution negates the concept of
> lament. The nice thing about computers is that I can reprint it with a
> better title --- if I come up with one.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Bill

How about something more reflective of the bird's triumph? "Paean for a
Lame Duck at the Bird Refuge" comes to mind. There should be other terms
reflecting the glory of the bird being transformed from struggling on the
ground to freedom in the air.

Dee Hays
Michigan

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