music      news/events      bio      recordings      contact The Master Nailer 1978 soprano flute  piano duration 2' SCORE     see also Three Arp Songs from Songbook 1 PART  • Flute TEXT The Master Nailer When I arrive my friends drop everything and dash up to watch me nail. My hammer and I are one.  I can only nail nails into a bread crumb But when I nail nails into a bread crumb I nail so well that my friends forget everything and are literally transported transfigured into pure welkin.  Only gradually gradually do they reappear do they recover in running azure then in flesh and blood after I've stopped nailing my nails into a bread crumb  Jean Arp (1887–1966) trans. Joachim Neugroschel