Arriving at the Gare du Nord, I disembark from the train to a guttural dawn chorus – I’ve heard that sound before. The morning platform’s cold, tinged with piss and alcohol. As I pass a street café, a newspaper hawker’s cry starts up the day and Gitanes and coffee grab me in a piquant embrace, […]
Tag: Libertango
I’ve heard that song before
midnight boulevard tango drifting from the bar locked in an embrace Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to Carpe Diem #1104 Libertango by Sofia Gubaidulina In this episode, the composer is a Russian one and her name is Sofia Gubaidulina and the piece of music is her arrangement of Astor Piazzola’s Libertango for piano and […]
writing in north norfolk 