MIDORI RECITAL

(Franco Midori, piano teacher at The St Celia Conservatory
of Music in Rome, in Stockholm's NationalMuseum)



Midori's hands
run across the keyboard
glissando supple
The romantic piano music
fills the museum
we listen as if in church

Behind the grand piano
a Nils Forsberg painting (1882)
of a dying soldier
receiving the last rites
from a white-haired priest

Maybe we are!