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Deryk Barker replies to me:
>>Well, unlike so many of the things I sound off on, I actually happen to
>>know something of English translations of Goethe's Faust. ...
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>Steve, far be it from me to disagree, but here is a quote from my programme
>(still have it) from the 1966 Bernstein/LSO performance of the 8th:
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>The German words are printed below as they are sung: Mahler omitted
>and tranpsoed certain lines of Goethe's texts. Opposite are printed the
>equivalent passages from the late Louis MacNiece's translation of Goethe's
>drama, which was broadcast in honour of Goethe's bicentenary in 1949.
Well, now you know how much I really know. Actually, MacNiece's
translation of Part II is not complete. There *are* sections and
pieces/parts of scenes. I just checked my copy.
Steve Schwartz
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