BEETHOVEN

Beethoven by Andy Warhol

Beethoven

For Daniel Wade 

 

 

The breath of harnessed pulmonary winds

Which orchestrate the wind section

Paralleling the storms is Beethoven;

The great wind will of his mind.

 

The very breath inhaled by the players

Likened to the rose of winds,

His symphonies and concertos playing out

Offering direction to the longitudes and latitudes

 

Of the great skies and plains of his many moods.

Hearken to the maple of the bassoons,

African blackwood in the clarinets and oboes.

 

Hear the superb craft volleying along the walls

Of the innumerable concert halls of old Europe,

Then gage the mammoth in the awakening silence.