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August 2009 
The Snow Goose part 2
Annemieke
This is the part that bears the essence of the story, but it is the part that is least played in live concerts. There are probably several reasons for that, like the use of wind instruments (Friendship) the non lyric-vocals (Migration) and the use of female voices (Preparation), which are not the regular ingredients of a rockband. And also does this part not so much have the brilliant and active guitar performances that are present in part one (Rhayader goes to town and The Snow Goose) and in part three (Dunkirk and La Princesse Perdue).
This part is much more like the Adagio in a classical symphony. It is more contemplative, the phase of reception instead of action. Part one and three are the active parts, part one in the way of a creative self-expression and part three expressing developed talents for the sake of a bigger whole.
But here, in part two, there is the need of another person, the other who reflects, but who also makes aware of the connection with the world again.
With ‘Friendship' there is a feeling of getting to know each other, which is reflected by the windinstruments that show the exchange of energy.
...they sailed together in his speedy boat, that he handled so skillfully. They caught wildfowl for the ever-increasing colony, and build new pens and enclosure for them. From him she learned the lore of every wild bird, from gull to gyrfalcon, that flew the marshes. She cooked for him sometimes, and even learned to mix his paints...
Then ‘Migration' very much gives the feeling of nature runs its course. The non lyric vocals make it sound rather unaware and just following the natural instictive circle of life.
With ‘Rhayader alone' there is the feeling of accepting and sadness with the soft keyboard and sensitive guitar expressing his loneliness.
...and Rhayader was heartbroken. All things seemed to have ended for him. He painted furiously through the winter and the next summer, and never once saw the child...
Here arises the awareness for Rhayader in ‘Flight of the Snow Goose' and the reconnection with his soul is expressed by the sound of water and female vocals in ‘Preparation'.
But at the same time this moment brings fear for Fritha, because she does not understand the power yet.
... and Fritha was suddenly conscious of the fact that she was frightened, and the things that frightened her were in Rhayader's eyes - the longing and the loneliness and the deep, welling, unspoken things that lay in and behind them as he turned them upon her. His last words were repeating themselves in her head as though he had said them again: this is her home now - of her own free will. The delicate tendrils of her instincts reached to him and carried to her the message of the unspoken things between them. The woman in her bade her take flight from something that she was not yet capable of understanding...
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