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Tadao Sawai |
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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688Waukegan 
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When the falcon falls finally From the air Still almost playfully With one last long gyre Then you looking up Know in your heart What it is to die To feel that sadness After all the beauty and bravery known That someone who was that and more Must with the rest as well come down See how he glides With outspread wings Filling all of one’s memory With silence |
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icequeen Senior Member
since 2001-12-09
Posts 633FL USA |
How beautiful this is... Just the other day I spent an hour watching three hawks glide and dip and call. They never fail to amaze me, and I always feel some sort of connection to them. Your writing reinforces that feeling. Caroline He who wants a rose must respect the thorn. |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
Beauty takes many forms...this poem is one of them. You just gave new birth to a memory for me, and to the exact feeling it brought, though as an odd little country boy I didn't have the emotional cistern to contain it, nor yet a pump strong enough to draw the words out. In mine, it was a red tailed hawk instead of a falcon, but that doesn't matter in he slightest. Thank you doubly for this one. ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688Waukegan |
Thanks to the both of you Tadao Sawai was a Koto master who composed for the instrument. Taka, (Falcon), is so almost painfully beautiful I've been listening to it constantly since I received the CD collection of Japanese music that included it two weeks ago, (because of one piece I've gone ahead and ordered more music by and done by him). The Japanese have a long tradition of sabi, the poignancy of things, the sense of transience of even the beautiful, and Taka for me seems to convey Tadao Sawai’s sense of it. There is a certain descending of notes he does that almost breaks your heart for the falcon and a devoted artist you never met who died at 59. Thanks again John |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
Absolutely beautiful... this one's going into my library. *S* |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
Thank you for this lovely gift. I am envious! You have a CD of him playing the koto? ~sigh~ |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
As for me, I'm going to find that album. ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> ______________Ratleader______________ Bingo, quoth he....... http://cdbaby.com/cd/kotoworld6 |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
John...beautiful, the poem and the music (thanks Ed) |
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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688Waukegan |
Ed and all, Yes I have the Elizabeth Falconer CD and its version of Taka is fine for someone who has not heard Tadao Sawai alone perform his own masterpiece, (the Falconer version almost seems a conscious homage to Tadao Sawai by two many less accomplished admirers while the pieces by Falconer herself stray from Japanese to something Japanese American; like Chinese restaurants serving milder versions they think their American patrons can digest without knowing the difference), I experienced through: “Air Mail Music: Splendor of the Japanese Instruments” Audio CD (January 7, 2003) Number of Discs: 3 Label: Playasound ASIN: B00007KFR2 The other music on the set is traditional or mindful of traditional and much better than most introductions to the Japanese. It was the first collection that drew me back to the music I would hear in the air coming from phonograph players and radios as I strolled the cobbled lanes of Akena in Okinawa as a young man decades ago. But to hear Taka played by Tadao Sawai alone makes the purchase worthwhile. John |
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Drauntz Member Elite
since 2007-03-16
Posts 2905Los Angeles California |
how I missed this good one! one among the best. though sad. read everything. |
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