Three Haiku after Bashô by Paul Cowell published on 2016-03-23T18:38:12Z These three pieces are for violin, flute and trombone and were were first performed in Edinburgh in January 2016. Matsuo Bashô (1644 – 1694), was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan. During his lifetime, The three sections are: 1 A cuckoo A cuckoo cries and through the vast bamboo thicket the moon’s light 2 The old pond The old pond, a frog jumps in -- water’s sound 3 A wild sea A wild sea across to Sado stretches the Milky Way Genre Classical
