Buoyed By His Exuberance Poem by gershon hepner

BUOYED BY HIS EXUBEANCE


Buoyed by his exuberance,
showed by a great protuberance,
the damsel brought relief for his distress
by lifting for him brazenly her dress.
Exuberantly more buoyed,
he filled her virtual void,
and for distress relief he gave a thank,
then quickly left and then at once he shrank.

Inspired by a review of a performance of a Mozart violin concerto by Christian Tetzlaff:

The ballast for this venture was Christian Tetzlaff, the violinist and a heavy cannon indeed to bring to this particular barrel of fish. There is no question that Mr. Tetzlaff is one of the best violinists playing today. But he's known for his seriousness: intense, razor-sharp playing. To say a given Mozart piece is light is not pejorative; a landscape is not diminished by a flash of sun. But Mr. Tetzlaff seemed to focus on the sturm und drang aspect of the period, and sought high drama, to the exclusion of the sunlight. His singing tone was seldom buoyed by the innate exuberance of simply making such a sound, an exuberance central to all the Mozart violin concertos. There was some fine playing, but the concerto lost its sense of artlessness along the way.

6/18/08