JoAnn Falletta et al....

Dear Classical Folks,

Here is a copy of a letter and a poem I sent to Maestra JoAnn Falletta today. I had a lot of fun with it. The blurb to which I refer is on the wned.org website under WNED-FM. Best regards to you all.

Sincerely,

Izzy.
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Izzy Sommers
7-140 Elmview Street, West
Welland, Ontario, L3C 4K7, Canada
Telephone: (905) 788-2237
Email: iambicfeet@yahoo.ca

Monday, February 25, 2008

JoAnn Falletta
Music Director,
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
499 Franklin Street
Buffalo, New York, 14202, USA
Telephone: (716) 885-0331
Email: classical@wned.org


Dear Maestra Falletta,

As you know, there�s a strong connection between poetry and music. In his TV series, Young People�s Concerts, Maestro Leonard Bernstein disclosed that Classical Blues are mainly triplets of iambic pentameter. I�ve been told that Shakespeare is easily translated into opera because the entire plays' scripts are iambic pentameter. Now, I see that it works both ways. Whoever wrote the WNED-FM announcement about the July Lewiston concert featuring yourself, Pablo Garibay and the BPO, must be a musician, a poet, or both. Just as it reads, it is practically entirely in iambs. It converts itself easily into sonnets with classic 14 line Iambic Pentametre. William Shakespeare and Elizabeth Barrett Browning would be proud to have written this copy.

In the spirit of the Muses of Poetry and Music, with apologies to William Shakespeare and Elizabeth Barrett Browning and with full poetic license, I submit to you the three sonnets that are evoked by the WNED blurb. I hope you enjoy them.

Wishing you much continued happiness in your wonderful endeavours, I am sincerely yours,

Izzy.

Encl: (1) JoAnn and Pablo
(2) WNED-fm blurb
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JoANN and PABLO

A Triple Sonnet
By Izzy Sommers


The Philharmonic Orchestra of
Buffalo presents the one and only
Pablo Gariby, the winner of the
Second and biennial JoAnn Falletta
International Guitar Concerto
Competition on July the twenty-ninth
On Sunday, three pm in Artpark,
Lewiston, New York. Don�t miss this
Brilliant young guitarist, Pablo Garibay,
Performing the Guitar Concerto No. 1
By Mario Castelnuovo
De Tedesco with the BPO.
Renowned Director of the BPO,
JoAnn Falletta also will conduct
The BPO in one of the most
Popular of symphonies, the Dvorak
No. 9, it�s �From the New World.� Garibay
Placed second in two thousand four
Inaugurating Competition, winning in
The second in two thousand six. Pursuing
Now a Master�s musical degree
In Hochschule Fur Musik von Franz Liszt
In Weimar, Germany, he studies under
Thomas Mueller-Pering. During
Thousand two, Herr Garibay performed as
Soloist with Mexico�s Orquesta
Philharmonica conducted by JoAnn
Falletta. He�s performed in Mexico,
United States and Europe. Mit Die
Kamarata Orkestra Sud
Afrika, er hat performed as soloist
And recently performed the African
Premier of il Concerto Sur
For the guitar and orchestra by
Il Manuel Maria Ponce.
Garibay played also with the Orquesta
Des Artes de Sinaloa, the Young
Symphonic Orquesta del Ciudad
Da Mexico, and ENM-UNAM,
The young symphonic orchestra.
Beginning his guitar in nineteen
Ninety-three, young Garibay has studied hard.


THE END

(C) Izzy Sommers
Welland, Canada
February, 2008

Cogito. Ergo, sum!
Je pense. Donc, je suis!
I think. Therefore, I am!
Ich denk. Also, ich bin!

I didn't think. Therefore, I wasn't. ;-(