Mary Kunz Goldman was for over 10 years the classical music critic for The Buffalo News, the daily paper of Buffalo, N.Y. She is also the authorized biographer of the great American pianist Leonard Pennario.
It is "Der Jungling an der Quelle," or the Youth at the Brook. It is a song I love, about the young man who goes to the brook and sits and wants to forget all about this girl, this Luisa, who has done him wrong. But the leaves and the brook, all day they whisper her name. At the end of the song that is what you hear.
"Luisa! Luisa!"
The beautiful little sing-song-y song has been on my brain all day.
Total Eclipse of the Rhinoceroses
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Howard and I went to the Buffalo Zoo today to view the Total Eclipse.
We had been invited to an eclipse party we had really been looking forward
to, h...
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