Re: translations, please!!

[Richard Schoeller <schoeller...>]

Here's a quick translation:

 I became acquainted with Kol Nidre and a few other songs (ie: Arabian
 Camel ???) in Berlin through the Lichtenstein family, who befriended
 me.  Even though I am a Protestant, as an artist I deeply felt the
 outstanding beauty of these melodies and therefore I gladly spread them
 through my arrangement. 

 ... As a young man I had already... studied folksongs of all nations
 with great enthusiasm, because the folksong is the source of all true
 melodics --- a wellspring, at which one must repeatedly renew and
 refresh oneself--- if one doesn't admit to the absurd belief of a
 certain party: "The melody is an outdated view."  So lay the study of
 Jewish ethnic music on my path.



On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 15:18, Robert Cohen wrote: 
> Can Irwin, or someone, please translate!!!
> 
> (from "a letter that Max Bruch wrote to cantor and musicologist
> Eduard Birnbaum on 4 December 1889:)
> 
> >"... Kol Nidre und einige andere Lieder (u. A. >>Arabiens Kamele<<)
> >habe ich in Berlin durch die mir befreundete Familie Lichtenstein
> >kennen gelernt. Obgleich ich Protestant bin habe ich doch als
> >Kuenstler die ausserordentliche Schoenheit dieser Gesaenge tief
> >empfunden und sie deshalb durch meine Bearbeitungen gerne
> >verbreitet.
> >
> >...Ich habe schon als junger Mann ...Volkslieder aller Nationen
> >mit grosser Vorliebe studiert, weil das Volkslied die Quelle
> >aller wahren Melodik ist---ein Jungbrunnen, an dem man sich
> >wieder erfrischen und erlaben muss---wenn man sich nicht zu
> >dem absurden Glauben einer gewissen Partei bekennt:
> > >>Die Melodie sei ein ueberwundener Standpunkt.<< So lag denn
> >auch das Studium Hebraeischer Nationalgesaenge auf meinem
> >Wege."
> 
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> BTW, I'm surprised that "redux" wasn't in whatever dictionary was consulted, 
> but it's quite frequently encountered in English--in popular journalism and, 
> for that matter, e-mail lists (where, of course, _I've_ used it).  I would 
> encourage its continued use; in an e-mail subject head, it's concise and 
> informative!
> 
> --Robert Cohen
> 
> 
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