preted by GORDON BRYAN
FRANK BRIDGE: The Dew Fairy Fireflies ; Suite, ' A Fairy Tale ' (The Princess-The Ogre -The Spell-The Prince)
NOT every composer can write short, attractive
Piano pieces that are of moderate difficulty and really express a little thought in a poetical way.
The Dew Fairy, one of a set of three pieces called The Hour Glass, written in 1919, is an example of Frank Bridge's skill in such pieces. It is in the French ' impressionistic ' style, delicate and extremely dainty.
The other pieces are all, after their kind, imaginative and suggestive.
It is not difficult to reconstruct, from the triangular ' cast' of the Fairy Tale, an appropriate story as a background for their doings. It is perhaps more fun thus to be left fancy free, to make up one's own romance, than to be told, page by page, what the music ' represents.'