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Following intermission, on the stage below this painting by Konstantin Nikov, Jan Zwicky read her 6 part poem “Practicing Bach” in the gaps of J.S.B’s “Partita in E Major for solo violin, BWV 1006.” The subtle dynamics, sculpted rhythms, and vivid colours of the ‘Preludio’ performed at speed by Aisslinn Nosky provoked a spontaneous outburst of applause. For Zwicky Bach’s piece is “The partita of the world, the dance of everything:”
everything/ has to be possible.” Bach’s wisdom, that we can hear in the music, is:
Practice
ceaselessly: there is
one art: wind
in the open spaces
grieving, laughing
with us, saying
improvise. |
