Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Music to my ears

The other day on my way to ballet, I had the car radio tuned to the local classical music station when out comes this piano music floating out of the speakers. I sat in my car in the parking lot for a long time, mesmerized.


I’m not usually a fan of piano solos (I like full symphonies and violin concertos), but this song was just so gorgeous and poignant that I stopped, breathless, in my car until the music ended. It was Widmung, composed by Schumann and arranged for the piano by Liszt. Schumann wrote the song as a wedding gift to his new bride, and I can see why – it has a deeply romantic melody.


The first thought in my head when I heard it was that this is exactly how the lullaby Edward composed for Bella would sound like. Throughout the books, there are references to Edward humming Bella to sleep with her lullaby and playing it on the piano to welcome her home.


Like I said, deeply romantic.


I downloaded Widmung on iTunes, and I get an ache in my chest every time I listen.





4 comments:

Karmela said...

Imagine my surprise when I read today's blog entry and lo! It seemed there wasn't going to be a mention of Beldward! Perhaps she's over it, I said. But then three paragraphs down (I couldn't believe you had the patience to wait THREE WHOLE PARAGRAPHS before the first mention of Beldward), there it was.

Edward humming Bella to sleep with her lullaby...

Yeah. What did I say about the pedophiliac elements of this book? I get more and more proof by the minutes.

Hazel Designs said...

GRRRRRRR!

I'm ignoring you, I'm ignoring you, I'm ignoring you...

Hazel Designs said...

It's because Edward doesn't sleep! He's a vampire!

Hazel Designs said...

And it was DEEPLY ROMANTIC!