Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Teaser Tuesday - 22nd May

Nearly Tuesday! Teaser tuesday's now hosted here.
  • Grab your current read
  • Open to a random page
  • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
  • BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
  • Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
A sad Sunday: on the radio some glum piece for cello and piano by Shostakovich. I can't stand cello sonatas, this impossible combination of banging and scraping, helplessness and pathos, with the piano's silvery cascade of notes paying not the slightest heed to the desperate actions of the cello as it scrapes away in its tartly tormented fashion.
Hans Werner Henze in his book Bohemian Fifths - a diary entry while working in Cuba in the 1969. I assume that was the Shostakovich D minor - a lovely work! I see Henze wrote a work for cello 20 years previously

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