James Zehm wrote: >Janos, thank you for Your report, but in the title of Your post, You >associates with "Quietly flows the river Don". Where does that come into >the story? Or is it just no connection? Long before Mikhail Sholokhov wrote *Quiet Flows the Don", Heine, in his "Lorelei" wrote "Die Luft ist kuehl, und es dunkelt, Und ruhig fliesst der Rhein...." For my favorite translation of that poem, see http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/h/heine/lorelei.html wm