Compassion
“ Mothers ” by Nikki Giovanni
Maurice Ravel: Ma Mère l’oye (Mother Goose Suite), M. 60: I. Pavane de la Belle au Bois dormant and II. Petit Poucet
Tender, but not without tension, Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite is the perfect companion to the poem “Mothers” by Nikki Giovanni. As the mother goose steps between her young and the outside world, we feel (as listeners and readers) beauty and intimacy, but also a level of distance—there are things the mother knows that the children have not yet learned about the world.
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