Greatness Rises

         Greatness Rises

On February 22 the grand

Fugue rose from all the instrument the first

Time.  Strength, complexity and subjects fanned

Out through the air.  The young man’s music burst

Out from mere theory and ink when played

By Dr Elvey.  Augmentation stretched

The melodies.  It was as if it stayed

Them, slightly, and excited stretti etched

The composition near its busy end.

The borrowings and calmness were required

To balance out excitement, calm the friend

Of vibrancy, a symmetry inspired.

..The pedals and the manuals combine.

….His teacher brings out beauty from each line.

This poem is part of a shorter sonnet sequence within this large sonnet sequence called The Encyclopedia Sonnetica.  The shorter sonnet sequence is called “A Lively Hope.”  I recommend you read this poem where it is set in its sonnet sequence.  To do that, search for “A Lively Hope” here in The Encyclopedia Sonnetica, or you may see an illustrated version the entire shorter sequence at
https://classicalpoets.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/A-Lively-Hope.pdf 
where it was first published.