Finnish composer Jean Sibelius's Fifth Symphony Eb Major 1914-15
And so he sat and wrote "Today I saw 16 swans. God, what beauty! They circled over me for a long time. Disappeared into the solar haze like a silver ribbon'.
Inspiration ignites the creative flame and so captured by one of the great experiences of his life, he began the grand theme, finale to a symphony sublime.
Strings fluttering, confused, unsettled, answering back, lifting in palindromic rotations, increasing intensity, spiral circles, climbing higher and higher, 'until finally like the sun parting the clouds, the brass arrive to put things on an even keel'¹.
Orchestral ecstasy, a conductor's dream,ending in dramatic defiance,a statement of beauty defying conflict-pow! pow! pow! pow! ... pu-pow!
¹Conductor Leonard Bernstein description
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