Last Flight of the Dragonfly

The lavender still smells and many insects cavort over the garden pond. Autumn has already arrived, but the air is still pleasantly warm. A silver-blue dragonfly attracts attention with its beauty. Their angular, unexpected trajectories also bear witness to their joie de vivre and activity. It flies just above the pond, almost touches the water surface and then rises abruptly. She seems to love her reflection on the water. You'd think the dragonfly missed the summer by a lot. Kees Vlak described this scene himself and added: "From the edge of the garden pond I look at everything with astonishment and also think of the summer - for hours until it gets dark and I go to sleep. When I wake up the next morning and look curiously at the pond, everything is deserted. The dragonfly is floating curved on the water - it is dead. Winter will come soon." Kees Vlak is often in the South of France and receives visits from friends there again and again. The main theme of his autumn impressions "The Last Flight of the Blue Dragonfly" takes up these relationships. Suitable for the musical realisation, he found the old Flemish folk song "Kommt in die Runde, ihr Freunde mein" as the basis.