Aaron Rabushka wrote:

>I've always enjoyed "Verklaerte Nacht" as an enchanting and persuasive tone
>poem.  I have spent the last couple of weeks preparing new scores of works
>that I wrote around 25 years ago, and its interesting to see the things
>that I'm glad I did then since I would never do them now.
>
>Bob, why do you think the story is sick?

Please see my reply to William J. Karsaz.

When I first listened to this piece I did not know the story.  I knew only
the title.  I had a mental image of what I percieved from the piece.  A
night of mystery and suspense with magic afoot.  (kind of midsummer nights
dreamish.)

The actual story is dramatically different from this.  I can feel the
fellow's distress at being presented with such a situation and (as I
said in my other posting) I think few men would react in such a way.
I certainly would not present any lover of my with a parallel situation
and expect her to stand by me.

Bob Draper
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