Walter Meyer wrote:

>I'd be curious to see the English version supplied w/ the
>Boulez recording.

Here's the text that was sent to me:

   The tale is old
   that shall be told,
   but where does it belong: within? without?
   How shall I tell the story,
   ladies and gentlemen?

   Let the song speak, I pray.
   We will watch together.
   Our eyes are open wide:
   but where is the stage: within? without?
   ladies and gentlemen?

   That joy and pain
   together reign
   in the world outside, we know.
   Yet we do not die within,
   ladies and gentlemen!

   You look at one another
   and sing an ancient melody.
   Who knows from whence it came?
   Listen and marvel,
   ladies and gentlemen!

   Music sounds, the flame burns bright,
   the play is now beginning.
   My eyes are open wide.
   When I close them, then applaud,
   ladies and gentlemen!

   Old is the castle, and old the tale
   that tells of it.
   Listen in silence.

(English version by Christopher Hassall)

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