Source: NEMUNAS
Author: Valdas Puteikis
A heartfelt thank you to journalist Valdas Puteikis and “Nemunas” magazine for a wonderful article and conversation with the legendary French countertenor Gérard Lesne. Read it in the latest issue!
“Gazing through the window at the slowly awakening, spring-touched Kančiogina wetlands that pool and stretch to the southeast of Paliesius Manor, G. Lesne admits he has not seen a northern natural landscape quite like this in a long time. He says that even the valley of his native Oise River, a right tributary of the Seine, during his childhood in the second half of the 1950s, was many times more urbanized than the grounds of this manor.”
“Haiku draws me in with its ephemeral nature and boundless precision of phrasing, where everything about life and the world is expressed in just three lines. They capture it all, as if with a single press of a camera button. For instance, ‘the thief took everything from me, except the moon in the window'”
