Michelangeli - Debussy Préludes Book II - Feux d'artifice ~ Haiku Reflections

Haiku Reflections
~ music ~ painting ~ word ~

this flowing grandeur
sounding sensibilities
hearken to the heart.

the night's majesty
cresting waves of violet
light within the soul.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Frames of Mind, Opus 7, segment, Watercolor, Conceptual, Rose Marie Raccioppi, http://www.apogeeart.com

Il vento e la rosa ~ The wind and the rose ~ a haiku offering

the wind and the rose
buds and bloom heed the wind's call
whispers of fragrance.

petals of presence
array of divinity
grace of creation.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


White Rose, Photo, CAR, Collectible Clicks, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2010.

And so the music...

Nightingale

Oh, sweet sounds thy Nightingale

Upon my soul this night I hail
And I in reverie and charm delight
Embraced by this sonorous night
Light lilting waves of love so real
All within my heart to feel
Upon piano keys now heard
The music of the night songbird.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


In Dedication
Nightingale de F.L. Matthew Cameron

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozoysappOp4



"Rose and nightingale (gul-o-bul-bul) drawing [Iran] (1993.98)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/10/wai/ho_1993.98.htm (October 2006)"

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Harmony

Upon her face the light I see
My heart beckons a soulful plea
Her music I hear and known be my heart
From this embracing moment I shan't depart
In silent knowing I vow she be mine
And in this moment is defined all time.

Rose Marie Raccioppi



Harmony, 1877, Oil on canvas, Sir Frank Dicksee, British, 1853-1928.



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The Music, The Music

Accord
Awakened sensibilities
A divine frenzy
Colors of splendor
Sounding of passion
The music, the music
Keys, strings
Voice the moment
The quest of BEING
Embraced by sounding drama
Lilting waves of resolve
The music, the music
The calm
The crescendo
The cresting light
The silent spaces
The emptiness
The music, the music
And I in its embrace
In its beckoning call
In its sounding splendor
In its soulful search
In its grasping quest
The music, the music.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Soiree Society of the Arts

In Tribute
to the performances of

Paul Barnes, piano
September 5, 2009

Sean Riley, violin; Irene Florence Wong, piano
September 12, 2009

Michael Shinn, piano
September 19, 2009

Andy Feldbau, piano
October 3, 2009

Performances Extraordinaire.
Soiree Society of the Arts





Astronomy Picture of the Day
Orion Nebula
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Royal String Quartet, Górecki, 3rd mvt. String Quartet no. 3

The haunt
the quest
the search
sweet revelation
pursuit
contemplation
reflection
reverie
resolve
the music, the music
the sounding strings
the sounding soul
this heart known
vistas of the great mind
the Creator's call
the music, the music.


Rose Marie Raccioppi

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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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We in ascension
the splendor of soul as it soars beyond all imposed limitation
As the GREAT MIND speaks TRUTH
SPIRIT in heralding voices calls us to the ONE, to the KNOWING, to the LIGHT.
So be the music, the music...


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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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Sandro Plays

Heard within the Presence of Self
The resounding of piano and passion
Hands and fingers move in lilting grace
Each note calls to be known
To be this moment opulent
A sea of silence
Enfolded in the embracing waves
Of sound majestic
Upon piano keys a soul to place
Sandro plays
And known be the eternal
The music, the music.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Performance Extraordinaire

Carnegie Room Concerts
Soiree Society of the Arts
July 18, 2009
Nyack, New York

In Tribute to

Sandro Russo
Pianist


Performing

Mozart
Mendelssohn
Lieberman
Medtner
Schubert/Liszt
Verdi/Liszt
Scriabin
Chopin

With loving gratitude,

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate

Music is the poetry of emotion
And poetry is the voice of music.

To Soar, Watercolor, Rose Marie Raccioppi, http://www.apogeeart.com


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Frames of Mind, Opus 10

Lilting hues of heaven's light
Songbirds at nest, songbirds at flight
Your music once heard
Known be the call of Spirit's word
Song to capture the wind, the light, the soul
And ever sweetened is life's present toll.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Frames of Mind, Opus 10, Watercolor, Rose Marie Raccioppi, http://www.apogeeart.com


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This Grandeur

Passion's pulse in command
Piano keys await your hand
Sounding this array of emotion
Fingers set in waves of motion
God, Truth, Power, Love and Grace
Known with each finger placed
Piano keys voice spirit’s calling plea
Presence, reflections, lyrical reverie
Gloria Patri be the praise, the claim
Held is this grandeur in your name.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Passion, Piano and the Poet's Pen

May 17, 2009
Valley Cottage, New York

Performance Extraordinaire

In Tribute to

Yashar Yaslowitz
Pianist

With loving gratitude,

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet



Terpsichore, Muse of Music And Dance, ca. 1739, Oil on canvas, Jean-Marc Nattier, French, 1685-1766

Passion, Piano and the Poet’s Pen

Passion, piano and the poet's pen sublime
Music and artistry 'tis nature's grace divine
The music, the words, the poem's soulful plea
Impassioned strings of heart known and set free
The artist's unveiling, the poet's word
And the music, the music, to be ever heard
These gifts of purpose, will and intent
Summon be the Muse with God's blessings sent.

Rose Marie Raccioppi




Passion, Piano and the Poet's Pen

Yashar Yaslowitz
Piano

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poetry

On Sunday, May 17, 2009, 2:00 pm, at the Valley Cottage Library, Valley Cottage, New York
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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.

A Tribute to the Amasi Trio

Heed Wise The Muse

Heed wise the Muse, your counsel of soul
God’s blessings to mark your goal
Another’s time and glory
And now ‘tis my story
Others have walked in the sun
My time has now just begun
Words of knowing within my heart
From this joy I shall newly start
Another’s creation in celebration
And I God’s eternal revelation
The plea from grace now known
I in gratitude for creation shown
The sculptor’s hand
In God’s command
Line and form to reveal
God’s beauty constant and real
Spectrum of color from a palette divine
Immortal the quest this moment be mine
The artist’s unveiling, the poet’s word
And the music, the music, to be ever heard
Heed wise the Muse, your counsel of soul
God’s blessings to mark your goal.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate


A Tribute to the Amasi Trio
Nyack College Trio in Residence

Sungrai Sohn, violin
Chungsun Kim, cello
Tammy Lum, piano

For an Outstanding Performance of

Felix Mendelssohn
Paul Liljestrand
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Astor Piazzolla

April 4, 2009

Soiree Society of the Arts
South Nyack Recital Series
Carnegie Room


Self-Portrait Hesitating Between Painting and Music, Angelica Kauffman, (1741-1807), 1791.

The Awakened Muse

The awakened Muse in God's spirit known
By the glory, beauty, splendor ever shown
The warm rising Sun for newness and light
The waxing Moon for faith's inner sight
Each bloom of Spring but a beckoning call
For the rebirth of life within each and All
Music and artistry 'tis nature's grace divine
Muse inspired note, form, structure and line
The music, the words, the poem's soulful plea
The drawing, the painting, the sculpture free
These gifts of purpose, goal, will and intent
The summon of the Muse with God's blessings sent
And when the Word sparks a thought of joy and rhyme
A wind's whisper, a bird's song, the day, the night be mine
Sky, land, mountain, stream, lake, river and sea
A palette of color, mood, bequeathed in guise to me
The vision, the dream now anew in God's Word
The Muse's entreat to follow, to follow, now heard
Line, form, sound, color, structure ever in creation
And so the awakened Muse in devoted revelation.


Rose Marie Raccioppi


Rottenhammer, Hans, Deutsch, Oil on canvas, Minerva and the Muses, 1603.

Moments Opulent

Sounding depths of drama
Pulsing peaks of passion
In sonorous submission to the divine
All despair dispelled
And known be the sentiment of soul
This night, moments opulent
Enfolded in the embrace
Of music, music, majestic.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate

In Dedication to

Quentin Kim
Pianist

On the Occasion of the Performance of
Johannes Brahms, Carl Maria von Weber, Quentin Kim, Franz Liszt, Camille Saint-Saens
March 14, 2009
South Nyack Recital Series
The Soiree Society of the Arts


Moment of Freedom, Watercolor, Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2002, http://www.apogeeart.com

Brush and Key

The expression of sound with touch and stroke of hand
The embrace of a knowing in spirit's command
The call of the music the instrument to convey
Artist and musician, the muses at play.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

And to us it be known

hands in the creator's command
with brush beauty to behold
upon keys the heart be told.

on this day
6 October 2010
dedicated to
Serena Rose Emory

Vincent Van Gogh, Marguerite Gachet at the Piano, 1890, (oil on canvas, 40-1/2x19-3/4 inches)
housed at the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, Kunstmuseum Basel.

Prelude, Chorale and Fugue, Cesar Franck

The mounting quest and fervor real
This heart knows not to conceal
Open to feel, long and mark desire
Pleading passion, flame and fire
Quiet the repose and soft the slumber
Nothing shall restrain or encumber
I willing to heed passion's plea
In all sensibilities I not flee
Each shade, hue, timbre and tone
I in your Presence, One and alone
Rippling waves of time and place
Know I the rapture of God's grace.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate

upon reflection
Soiree Society of the Arts
piano performance of

Kimball Gallagher


Frames of Mind, Opus 5, Watercolor, Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2007, Conceptual Art, www.apogeeart.com

She Plays

Loss and the beauty of what was
The winds carry the haunting call of past and present
The heart beats the memory, the lament
The soul knows it is the dark and the light
The morning and the noonday gone to the journey of night
The journey of night ever in pursuit of the awakening dawn
To this our life and love belong.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate


In Dedication to

Amy Gustafson

On the Occasion of the Performance of
February 14, 2009

Domenico Cimarosa
Alberto Ginastera
Franz Schubert
Isaac Albeniz
Enrique Granados
Frederic Chopin

South Nyack Recital Series
The Soiree Society of the Arts
The Carnegie Room
Nyack, New York

Silent Night Rhythm, Watercolor, Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2002, www.apogeeart.com

Passions Mine

Seduction and passion's plea
Longing and rapture in reverie
Fervor, spirit's luminous flame
Ablaze the soul calls its claim
Rueful reflection sounds its cry
Muse be summoned to answer why
Enfold yourself in the spark of creation
Now and eternal is all revelation
Brush stroke of color upon surfaces vast
Sculpture set by the artist to cast
Carving of stone with the hand divine
Drawing holding grace in shadow and line
The sounding heart and reaching hand
Music, music, echoes of God's command
Flaming heart of love and boundless fire
Know I of grace and incessant desire
Art, music, words in prose, words in rhyme
Playful musings of these passions mine.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Baldassare Peruzzi, 1481-1537, a painter of frescoes in the Cappella San Giovanni in the Duomo of Siena, Muses Dancing with Apollo

BRAVO Yashar

Passion's pulse in command
Piano keys await your hand
Sounding this array of emotion
Fingers set in waves of motion
God, Truth, Power, Love and Grace
Known with each finger placed
Piano keys voice spirit’s calling plea
Presence, reflections, lyrical reverie
Gloria Patri be the praise, the claim
Held is this grandeur in your name.

In loving friendship,

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Performance of Yashar Yaslowitz
Bach, Beethoven, Chopin
January 31, 2009
South Nyack Recital Series
Soiree Society of the Arts

Music, Painting by Georgia O'Keeffe