Composer's web comment:

the rain that has poured over them

Karl-Johan Ankarblom

One idea is to carry forward the poem and its message

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Oboe Sonata – The Puppeteer Dop (vuxna) Composer's web comment:Even as a child I had always a special fascination for puppets and marionettes. The plays and especially the dolls had something ambivalent about them and the puppet theatre often contained both comedy, violence and deep tragedy. The writer Wallace Fowlie described this contrast in his essay Petrouchkas Wake with the words: He [Petrouchka] is already, at the beginning of each performance, in the domain of death. The jerkiness and the unpredictability