Rose Marie Raccioppi In Poetic Dialogue with BEETHOVEN: THE SYMPHONIES

Rose Marie Raccioppi In Poetic Dialogue with 

BEETHOVEN: THE SYMPHONIES

Christopher Oldfather, piano

Fredrica Wyman, piano

Carnegie Concert Series

The Nyack Library

Nyack, New York

August 23, 2014

Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op.36.

The piano keys in sounding response

Echoes of the passions and pulsing of heart

Cresting waves of thunderous light call

Know this breath that breathes the lament and yearnings of soul

This ever mounting, embracing, encompassing pulse

Hear I colors and strokes bold

Hear I colors and strokes of gentle grace

Live I a canvas that sounds passion and plea

Sensibilities and touched is the deep knowing within me

I AM the torrential rains and the morning dew on flowers sweet

I AM the burning desire and the quietude of the midnight hour

I AM the ambient sounding of passions deep within my BEING

Echoes, echoes, echoes, of a breath's call

Hear I the interlude, that interface between receiving and giving

Frolic and fury in sounding expression

Feel I this dance beyond composure

An Awakening

A Liberation

A BEING in the breath of this sounding moment.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op.55 "Eroica."

Entreat

The engagement

The invitation

To the inner chambers of a sounding accord

Ascension to heights beyond the Earth's plane

Celestial winds and soaring wings in breath's refrain

Each piano key to speak the ever mounting quest of BEING

Hear I the black symbols upon the pristine page that beckons

Sound, sound, sound

Yes, a celebratory engagement

Sound BE this breath of soul's splendor

Heed I passion's petition for a sounding TRUTH

BE I known by these dedications divine

A splendor that sweeps

Sadness now in sounding resolve

Measures of silence

Measures of BEING

This crescendo of Creation made known

Shed I the cloak of despair and don the royal robes of resolve

Each note in revelation, in heart's chambers heard

The music, the music, the music, resounding breath of BEING.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Keys and Strings

Keys and strings
The splendor of sound
Heart and spirit ever to resound
Blessed be the muse, the music sublime
Creation's call known in sounding divine
Heard be the winds and the rolling waves of sea
Tender the touch, deep passion in mounting plea
Bloom and petals alight in frivolity play
To the awakened reverie I do pray
Lilting sentiments resonant and real
The muse, the music, the soul to reveal.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate


In Dedication and in Tribute

Lauren Weaver
cello
Yashar Yaslowitz
piano

Performance Extraordinaire
August 15, 2009

Johann Sebastian Bach
Gabriel Faure
Bela Bartok
Ludwig van Beethoven
Johannes Brahms

Soiree Society of the Arts
Carnegie Room Concerts
Nyack, New York

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Cello image courtesy of: www.CelloProfessor.com

In Tribute to Nathaniel Ayers, The Soloist

Calling, calling is his prayer
The strings of his soul dispel despair
The music within is ever heard
Known to his heart is God's word
Confusion and chaos in great abound
Within his world a purpose found
The music, the cello, his being, his glory
And told is the Soloist story
Beethoven to fill his chambers of pain
'Tis the music and God to call his name
Colors in resounding rapture and light
His soaring soul these moments in flight
From the shackles of judgment he does flee
In sonorous ascension his spirit known free.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


The Cello Player, 1896, Oil on canvas, Thomas Eakins, American, 1844-1916.

Appassionata

"Appassionata"

This pulsating pleading passion

rapture and pain

ecstasy grasping for the eternal

fleeting frivolity

thunderous echoes of silence

maudlin, tempered and dark

despair dispelled

the sounding ascension

awakening

movements of innocence

joyful exuberance

the spirit as itself

all sound

all silence

being

quell not these passions

the yearning fires of the soul

devour pain and loss.



Rose Marie Raccioppi