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a suite by any other name is still
a suite, a piece of music with
several related parts, a collage,
in painterly parlance
one New Year’s Eve, rather than
going out to celebrate, I took a
hot bath, rose at midnight like
Venus from the cleansing waters,
sat with my teddy bear before a
bristling fireplace, and listened,
serene, to Liszt’s “Années de
Pèlerinage”, all three of his
magical compositions around
his time in Switzerland and Italy,
rendered as musical photographs,
they are of Liszt, I think, his
summit, his acme, the rest of his
stuff is mostly show business
Suisse“, to my mind, a marvel
l – Chapelle de Guillaume Tell
ll – Au lac de Wallenstadt
lll – Pastorale
lV – Au bord d’une source, or, By a Spring
V – Orage – Storm
Vl – Vallée d’Obermann
Vlll – Le mal du pays (Heimweh) – Homesickness
lX – Les cloches de Genève (Nocturne) – The Bells of Geneva
R ! chard