Trout Music--Schubert's 'Trout'
Actually, my musical tastes run more towards honky tonk, bluegrass and country swing. But we had a hoot at our fly tying session today listening to Schubert's "Trout" quintet and discussing what was probably happening during each part.
For me, the first 3 parts represented all kinds of different trout water that we fished last year--big slow rivers, still pools, deep fast channels, and steep, rocky bubbling little brook trout streams. He starts getting some good strikes in part 3, you'll hear them as he walks between slow water and fast.
Things get exciting with lots of strikes in the 4th part, and by the middle of it (the andantino), he hooks a trout, falls in the water, his waders fill up, and he almost drowns. We all agreed on exactly which part of the song that was.....you will too. Then he finally does hook the happy little trout, muddys the water, lands the fish, and lets it go.
Actually, Schubert was probably not a fisherman, and it's known he wrote the melody to go along with a poem ("Die Forelle") written by a fisherman fan of his, and then turned it into this famous quintet.
Anyway, we were laughing like crazy. Maybe it's the excess of frozen air and water here these days, but -- contrary to popular belief, classical music does not have to be boring.
;~)
DANBOB
