Kevin Crossley-Holland in Whiteleaf, near Princes Risborough - between in the middle of the 1940's and at the end of the 1940's
from The Hidden Roads: A Memoir of Childhood, page 11:
While I lay between waking and sleeping, my father sometimes sat down at his piano. I used to think the wide, strong, rising chords he began with (as a way of flexing his fingers and as an alternative to scales, maybe) were like stanchions or the feet of a great bridge straddling dangerous, dark water:
at nights I heard
you play – while you charmed babeldom I slept*
*Kevin Crossley-Holland, Selected Poems: from ‘Sounds’.
cite as
Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Hidden Roads: A Memoir of Childhood (London, 2009), p. 11. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1546622457211 accessed: 15 October, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composersrising chords played on the piano | performed by Peter Crossley-Holland |
Experience Information
Date/Time | between in the middle of the 1940's and at the end of the 1940's |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in private, indoors, solitary |
Originally submitted by lcc5 on Fri, 04 Jan 2019 17:20:57 +0000
Approved on Fri, 24 Jul 2020 14:07:27 +0100