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susan ([personal profile] susanreads) wrote2009-07-19 03:00 pm
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Psycho Ex, 19th century style

On the TV coverage of the First Night of the Proms, the BBC helpfully provided English subtitles for the German lyrics. Brahms' Alto Rhapsody was written as a wedding gift, apparently ...

Who can heal the sorrows of a man for whom balm has turned to poison?
A man who drank hatred of his fellow men from the fullness of love?
Once despised, now he despises ... etc.

(The radio silence has been because I was working on something under my other ID. I am still listening.)