Word: erlkonig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more of the Old Russian songs fast dying under the new regime, explored the folk-music of France, Germany, England. All her songs tell stories. There was one last week in which a French husband glowered and raged at his simpering, deceitful wife. There was an arrangement of the Erlkonig which Goethe and the Kapellmeister Reichardt made for Goethe's cook. Tarasova sang it swaying eerily, perfectly depicting the bogey which haunted the child's delirium. The mechanics of such singing is secondary to the fact that words & music are ideally blended. Sometimes Tarasova's natural voice...