a mellow melody sinking into my mind, and the tune of heartstrings i sometimes dream of...

Thursday over at last!

I've always thought it would be great to have my own theme music- like in the movies. It would make everything so much more exciting. Well, the closest I can get to that is listening to a walkman. In this way, a simple jot from the train to the tram becomes more like riding Rusalka's waves from point to point, like being on a "premier voyage" with Manon.

It's dangerous though- I connect music to the places where I've carry it. Rod's Great American Song Book will always be February and March 2003. The moment I listen I am not longer in Podkowa Lesna, but moping out the window from the top bunk bed on a Friday afternoon. Norah Jones is all May of that year, Nat King Cole August. Edyta Gorniak is September, Diana Krall, November. Then in February, music at the Academy begins, with Chopin and Monuszko...

I got to thinking about this when Chojnacka whipped out the Tenor Aria from Szymanowski's "Harnaskie" the other week. We hadn't touched it since January, before that wokring on it heavily mostly in November. We did it again today, out of the blue. I'm not sure how on target I am with the old mountain Polish here, but here is the jist:

"Powiydzze mi, powiydz // Tell me, tell
Do uska prawego, // In my right ear
Cy mnie rada widzis, // Is it me you want to see
Cy kogo innego?" // Or someone else?

All at once I was looking out to my beautiful statue soliders shrouded in the November night, though now there was not night. It was cold then, and I was excited because for the time. Harnasie makes me miss.

"Kiebys ty tak mnom // When you with me
Jako jo za tobom, // Like I with you,
Bylibymy sobie // We were together
Kozdom nocke z sobom // Every night with each other

Kozdo noc w radosci // Every night in joy
Kozdy dziyn w klopocie // Every day in trouble
Kiebys ty tak do mnie, // When like this you felt to me
Jako jo do tobie // Like I to you

Byloby nom, bylo, // It would be, it was
Jak janiolkim w niebie, // Like an angel in the sky
Kiebys ty tak do mnie, // When like this you felt to me
Jako jo do tobie" // Like I to you.