In the first part of Musical flow

The composer weaves the text in long lines which are often supported by rhythmically faster wordless melismas

combined and used through the entire poem

Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)

I dream of peace consists of two parts

Un oiseau chante Sven-David/Purcell In the first part ofFrom 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