Leaf 144 – Senryu (or, witty tom-foolery)
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| The Philharmonia Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall, London (Camilla Greenwell) |
Following on from my previous
poem about the Proms (see Leaf 143), this senryu recalls an amusing memory from a
concert at the Royal Festival Hall, overlooking the River Thames on London’s
Southbank. When I lived in London, I used to be a regular concert-goer in the
audience of the very excellent Philharmonia Orchestra. I forget what the piece
of music was on this particular occasion, but I recall becoming fascinated by
one member of the wind section, who seemed to be sitting there with his arms
folded, doing absolutely nothing throughout each successive movement as the
symphony was being played around him, until …
After an hour
amid the orchestra
– seven pips on a piccolo!
