SONNETS to Sundry Notes of Music, a Fest-Schrift in honor of WS, onlie
begetter of the famous old plays and sugar'd sonnets

HEILIGE DANKE GESANG Budapest Quartet New York 1945

"After great pain, a formal feeling comes" - Emily Dickinson

Emily had the faces right: eyes not meeting
Mourning in the evening of the world.
Audience members thinking in their black
"It's so strange that Joe won't be coming back"

SHOSTAKOVITCH LENINGRAD ADAGIO

Music began in a dream
Music began in a scream
Music was born in water and blood
And so shall music end.
And after the end a solitary flute.
Music was born in water and fire
Which shall conspire
To return when all the ice is gone.

YEHUDI MENUHIN *SPIELT* BACH