Lang Lang is about to come on and play the Liszt 1st Piano Concerto (200th anniversary of his birth). My ode is to the Liszt Christus though:
The AB Christus Resurrection - an Expression of Support to the 2011 Proms
& Liszt who features tonight in Part 1 (though it is the 1st Piano Concerto).
(adapted by the Castle Bard).
Open Castle doors, last trumpet sounding,
Mamya’s woodwinds’ lonely birdsong cry.
Alba Strings at Mad Club twilight, Jogger bows descending,
as the AB world prepares to die.
Lie-In’s Roars across the wasteland,
Lady Alex’s pilgrims on the final day.
Her Baton raised as if in judgement,
sweeping life, tailcocks and snacks away.
Broken glasses and broken temple,
Vallaw of terror in the Ed’s wilderness.
AB Good and evil weighed and measured,
darkness of the Hall’s khazi waiting to confess.
Now the give-up sun and polar moon are equal,
now the petal void is bright with Suezy stars.
Nonna’s Cymbals crashing, AB souls believing,
boozy salvation in the closing bars.
All is finished, all Boxtopped, all beginning,
a ttfn silence fills the crowded hall.
Alexandered’s Baton lowered, AB hands applauding,
saved at last, rsvp-ed, from mankind’s fall.