"Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned
by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down."
AUTHOR: Hector Berlioz
"Artistic inspiration is fleeting
(passing quickly) and unexpected."
COMPOSER
IVES
In Flanders' Fields (1919)
Veronica Lenz-Khun, Soprano
Tan Crone, Piano
Written in a rare mood of bitter indignation, anguish,
sorrow, and concern for so much lose of life,
(happening and to come).
sorrow, and concern for so much lose of life,
(happening and to come).
wrote his famous poem while sitting on the step of an
ambulance, after the burial of his friend, Al Helmer,
who was blown to bit's. Then was asked what
he had written and said,
" I don't know..."
In Flanders Fields
John McCrae
Heritage Minute