Sunday, May 1, 2016

Goethe's "Mailled"


    It's time to go a-Maying!  I am going for a walk after I post this: through the woods to the lake, actually river leading to a lake.

    Goethe's poem is excellent. I have my students memorize part of it, and encourage them to learn more of it,

    The first link is a recitation with a modicum of background noise. I like the intensity of the reciter. The second is Beethoven's musical setting, sung by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.

     My Colorado/New Mexico friends will have to wait a little longer for Spring.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S7tYcsF8vs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deIVTW7wHNg

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