Musical setting of the poem, "Music" by Amy Lowell. In brief, woman lying in bed hears beautiful flute playing at night and is disillusioned the next morning to see through her window the fat bald player eating onions. She prefers to picture handsome well-dressed young man. Main musical features, some beautiful flute passages, humorous depiction of actual player, and romantic waltz depicting preferred image. Duration 6 minutes. A performance at College of Marin by Mimi Braverman (who inserted her own flute cadenza), Shelley Hodgen (clarinet), Jay Williams (horn), Karen Wright (bassoon), me (oboe), and Harriet Spiegel (narrator) can be seen on YouTube. Parts for each instrument have text cues of the narration showing when to play and narrator's text tells what to listen for as cues to start reading. View Page includes both the first page of music and the poem. The Listen button gets you to the YouTube recording
Flute and Onions
