Wind quartet in Am for voice and basso continuo with chorus of hens.

     The auditorium is small in size. You could say that it is an individual room for music lovers where only the musicians and one lucky listener fit, since the space it occupies is exactly a little cement bridge with railings taken from an old balcony over the Salado stream. I am talking about a surface area of ​​approximately three by four metres.

     Let me introduce the players: clarinet, Maestro Paleartic Wren; piccolo, Maestro Blue Tit; oboe, Maestro Tit and bassoon, Maestro Jay. A spontaneous chorus is composed by blackcaps, black-headed warblers, stonechats, black wheatears, blaackbirds and many chickens that can be heard in the distance. The sound of the stream´s water acts as a basso continuo.

     These musicians, unlike those who play at the Scala in Milán, the Staatsoper in Berlin, the Suntory in Tokyo, our Royal Albert Hall, the Sala Pleyel in Paris or the Musikverein in Vienna do not need to rehearse for several days under the baton of a famous conductor. They, naturally, adjust their rhytm or personality of the score that the momento demands and there is no record of a single musical note having ever been heard out of place.

     Please, silence. The first movement begins.

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     Mary