Writers in TAG
We're certainly a talented bunch here. This is "The Overture", the opening of Anna Wilson's (of Charles and Anna fame) as yet unpublished book,The Balcony, (le Balcon). It's a beautiful piece that draws on her musical background.
All you budding writers please send your contributions — fact, fiction or poetry — to me at doreen.porter8@orange.fr
Here's how Anna's piece begins:
1 - Overture
Unconventionally, the musicians in the huge orchestra pit started to play in earnest only after the curtain had dropped. Falling soundlessly, the grey chiffon of dusk formed the backdrop to the nocturnal serenade. The chirruping of the crickets and the trilling of the frogs provided the underlying texture. They did not exactly form a unison blanket of sound but were a constant, a continuo for the rest of the music to rest upon, blending in with the sibilant swish of the breeze as it passed through the swaying trees. The sombre coloured cicada made an erratic appearance, bursting out into short bursts of percussive staccato, higher in pitch and more metallic in sound than his green cricket relative. More melodic were the sounds of the bells hanging from collars around the necks of the domestic animals; the deep, lazy clang from the cows, sometimes accompanied by a mournful mooing as they warned their calves not to stray too far; the higher pitched tinkle from the goats as they restlessly shook their dainty heads or lifted their supple hind legs to scratch at the embedded ticks
