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1. Qui fait rêver les oiseaux

2. triste et beau

3. Et sangloter d'extase les jets d'eau

One of the great blessings of working in a vibrant musical community like St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Kansas City is that we have a knack for attracting gifted and generous musicians to our community. Dr. Carol Dale is one of the excellent examples of this. She is a gifted flutist and a genuinely kind person with a host of extraordinary gifts. She is also very giving of her time and helps to keep our music program afloat. I have enjoyed playing music with Carol for a few years now, and as is often the case, I like to respond to that by writing something for people that I appreciate musically. I have been wanting to hear some music that I call, “square French music.” I mean by that, I think, music with easily defined phrases with French and jazz harmonies that has a sometimes inexact and undefinable mood. I have recently taken to titling movements from little snippets from poems that I read. In this case, the titles come from Paul Verlaine’s “Clair de Lune.”

Clair de lune

Votre âme est un paysage choisi Que vont charmant masques et bergamasques Jouant du luth et dansant et quasi Tristes sous leurs déguisements fantasques.

Tout en chantant sur le mode mineur L'amour vainqueur et la vie opportune, Ils n'ont pas l'air de croire à leur bonheur Et leur chanson se mêle au clair de lune,

Au calme clair de lune triste et beau, Qui fait rêver les oiseaux dans les arbres Et sangloter d'extase les jets d'eau, Les grands jets d'eau sveltes parmi les marbres.

Moonlight

Your soul is a select landscape Where charming masqueraders and bergamaskers go Playing the lute and dancing and almost Sad beneath their fantastic disguises.

All sing in a minor key Of victorious love and the opportune life, They do not seem to believe in their happiness And their song mingles with the moonlight,

With the still moonlight, sad and beautiful, That sets the birds dreaming in the trees And the fountains sobbing in ecstasy, The tall slender fountains among marble statues.

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