Solstice
The
summer solstice is today!
“There is almost no
summer night in the north; only a lingering evening, darkening slightly
as it lingers, but even this darkening has its ineffable clarity. It is
the approaching presentiment of the summer morning. When the music of
late evening has sunk to a violet, dusky pianissimo, so delicate that it
lengthens into a brief rest, then the first
violin awakens with a soft, high cadence in which the cello soon joins,
and this inwardly perceived tone picture is supported outwardly by a
thousand-tongued accompaniment twittering from a myriad of branches and
from the heights of the air. It is already morning, yet a moment ago it
was still evening...”
- Frans Emil Sillanpää, ‘People in the summer
night’ (translated by Alan Blair)
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