“In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing
About the dark times.”
Bertolt Brecht
more infosource: Bertolt Brecht: Poems 1913-1956 (New York: Taylor & Francis, 1987), 320.
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category: darkness, music, singing, tragedy
medium: Poetry
“We could see the moon now, a thin silver moon swinging between the black treetops overhead. Chuck kept losing the radio station. Finally he turned off the radio, and we sang Buddy Holly songs for a while. When we got tired of those, we sang hymns. First we sang ‘I Walk to the Garden Alone’ and ‘The Old Rugged Cross,’ and a few other quiet ones, just to find our range and get in the spirit. Then we sang the roofraisers. We sang them with respect and we sang them hard, swaying from side to side and dipping our shoulders in counterpoint. Between hymns we drank from the bottle. Our voices were strong. It was a good night to sing and we sang for all we were worth, as if we’d been saved.”
Tobias Wolff
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