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The Elf King
Posted on March 29, 2026 Leave a Comment
The contributors to this song are a man, well-known and admired throughout Germany, regarded even today as perhaps the most influential German writer of all time, and a humble eighteen-year-old Austrian composer, still a boy in many ways, poor, unknown outside a small circle of fellow music students and friends. Using a single human voice […]
The Miller and the Brook
Posted on March 1, 2025 Leave a Comment
I once heard a piece of music that bowled me over. It was a song written over two hundred years ago. It featured a baritone voice and a piano. It was sung in German. It was called Der muller und der bach (the miller and the brook). I didn’t understand the words. I didn’t need […]
Gerry Roberts 
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