Shadows from a song

Inspiration...

My inspiration was in its dying phase - maybe I just say that I enjoyed the Silence Of Thoughts... or should I say that I was under some Black Shadows' effect?

Negra Sombra, a piece I was playing on Monday and today at a rehearsal added to the thing. We need to prepare it for January for a concert, among other pieces and it is not a very cheerful one. The composition was written by Juan Montes and the world premiere happened in 1892, in Havana, Cuba.

I play the piano arrangement of the orchestral version, it is something like this but adjusted for the piano and choir.

The song is based on one poem written by Rosalía de Castro. She was a poet from Galicia and included a poem without a title in her collection of poems "Follas novas", published in 1880.

Here is the link if you want to read it in her native language, which is spoken in that part of Spain, Galicia. There is also a Spanish translation under the original version.

In a few words - she talks about the pain and that black shadow that never leaves her, even when she thinks it is gone, the shadow comes back to mock her. It is in the sun which shines, and in the stars, or in the wind. She feels that pain even in the murmur of the river, it is everywhere. When people cry or sing, the black shadow is present and she confesses that it will never leave her.

The music that I play affects me. It is like living the same as the writer or composer wanted to transmit. So you see, working around this song made me see the black, though I also see the white - when I sit in front of the piano. The combination of black and white actually reminds me of one community and her admin (thank you for the inspiration, you know first-hand how this post was born hahaha).

My boys prepared the lunch today and I took a sweet beverage after it. Well, two. Suddenly my photo of the keyboard changed its appearance.

First - surprise! But let me see it better. It can't be distorted in this way, something is wrong here. I was laughing already. My boys were mocking me. Just two shots and you are seeing things hahaha...

Very funny!

The pizza was salty, I was thirsty. Though I could also pick water, right? Anyway, this became my fun time and I forgot the silent thoughts phase. One word became two, and Yamaha was seen several times.

Then I applied a bunch of stuff, no more shots, I promise. We already have a whirlwind of thoughts and eyes that stick. It could be that I have already entered the dream perhaps. A short nap will come in handy now.

But before I enter the world of my dreams, I have to make sure I will not see the piano keys in these versions the day we have our performance with the choir. I will have to practice a bit and get back that little but very-needed thing called self-confidence. Oh, I should not open GIMP until the concert passes, as I will remember this little fun I had right now.

And just skip any 🥃 before getting out to the stage and leave the kaleidoscope vision at home, not to see the piano keys in this form.