tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3749554298940237935.post2245503800835159478..comments2022-04-09T00:31:22.253-07:00Comments on SongLiedMélodie: Von Ewiger Liebe (Brahms)Milagro Vargashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06214003518842959245noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3749554298940237935.post-70849904915566501622021-08-08T06:54:20.676-07:002021-08-08T06:54:20.676-07:00I believe that interpretation of a song is a pers...I believe that interpretation of a song is a personal journey, probably influenced by ones own life experience. The fact that this songs starts out in minor implies to me that an awakening is coming for the singer.<br /><br />I have sung this song often professionally and always found that the awakening is the most important part of the song. Perhaps for the first time in one's life, feeling eternal love for another person!<br /><br />It is a profound and beautiful song, hard to do well, but worth the effort to add to one's repertoire!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07310339772667650541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3749554298940237935.post-29916746477715407332021-04-17T02:26:15.032-07:002021-04-17T02:26:15.032-07:00Thanks for posting the translation. It wasn't...Thanks for posting the translation. It wasn't easy to find one for this song. My comment might be one you would not like, but here it is. No, I don't like the male version you posted at all, but the problem with this song is that it is very hard to find ANY version which does not treat this song, which is a hymn to undying unshakeable love, as a funereal dirge about love which will inevitably be lost. Everybody sings about the darkness and silence as if it were the gloom and doom of the grave. It isn't necessarily that at all; it only comes out that way if you approach the story with a preconceived bias. The moment is ethereal, like a kind of eternal moment where none of the usual temporal events are happening. It is a moment when what is eternal can be perceived. I mean, that is what the title implies. That is not death or gloom, and everybody sings this song like they are in a funeral procession across the moors. And the POINT of the song is that love is eternal and unshakeable, undying. There is NOTHING gloomy about that. This song needs an interpretation which opens with great tenderness, not gloom, which presents the young man's worries with wisdom and understanding, knowing that the truth is coming in the magnificent affirmation by the woman. More pastels, less black and white, more shades of eternal grey suffused with the wisdom of eternal love. My take, anyway.transatlantic7https://www.blogger.com/profile/10909555102292686918noreply@blogger.com