Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

For melody and treble part with piano

it opens up and begins to compose itself

Tina Andersson has set a text by the American poet

which we are celebrating with a complete renovation of the book

Ombre Alfred Lord Tennyson Swedish Radio Symphony OrchestraFrom Calligrammes Commentary I have been an avid reader of Guillaume Apollinaire's surrealistic poetry ever since I traveled to Paris as a teenager in the late 1970s. There I discovered his poetry and brought it back with me when I returned home to my native Sweden. I immediately fell for the blend of humor, sorrow, longing for love and peace and innovation that I found in Apollinaire's poems. He was at the forefront when modernism was established in