Saturday Night Music

Leonard Bernstein

Der Leiermann

Thomas Quasthoff (*9 November 1959)

Drüben hinterm Dorfe
Steht ein Leiermann,
Und mit starren Fingern
Dreht er, was er kann.

Barfuß auf dem Eise
Wankt er hin und her;
Und sein kleiner Teller
Bleibt ihm immer leer.

Keiner mag ihn hören,
Keiner sieht ihn an;
Und die Hunde knurren
Um den alten Mann.

Und er läßt es gehen
Alles, wie es will,
Dreht, und seine Leier
Steht ihm nimmer still.

Wunderlicher Alter,
Soll ich mit dir geh'n?
Willst zu meinen Liedern
Deine Leier dreh'n?

by Wilhelm Müller (7 October 1794 – 30 September 1827) 

Franz Schubert (31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828)

Winterreise
 
Daniel Barenboim *15 November 1942

Laughing Lhursday*

* [For first time visitors]:
Typo in the title?
Nah.
It's just that I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

Thoughts

If man does not
eliminate war from history
it will be war
that eliminates man
from history.

Gino Strada

Saturday Night Music

Leonard Bernstein

170 years ago

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (3 February 1809 – 4 November 1847)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt (6 Dezember 1929 – 5 March 2016)

Laughing Lhursday*

* [For first time visitors]:
Typo in the title?
Nah.
It's just that I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

Saturday Night Music

Leonard Bernstein

Laughing Lhursday*

* [For first time visitors]:
Typo in the title?
Nah.
It's just that I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

Eamon Kelly

Eamon Kelly (1914 – 24 October 2001)

Saturday Night Music

Leonard Bernstein

Saturday Night Music

Franz Liszt (October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886)

Martha Argerich

Friday is Skyday

It was a fine place
to speak about refugees.
And to talk with some.

Laughing Lhursday*

* [For first time visitors]:
Typo in the title?
Nah.
It's just that I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

Bernstein on Mozart

Saturday Night Music

Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990)

Friday is Skyday

Friday the 13th
completing a sun orbit.
What a fine omen.

Laughing Lhursday*

Niall Tóibín (born 21 November 1929)

* [For first time visitors]:
Typo in the title?
Nah.
It's just that I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

Eccola!

Joan Sutherland (7 November 1926 – 10 October 2010)

Milord

La Foule

Édith Piaf (19 December 1915 – 10 October 1963)