And one of the cleverest and wittiest settings of poetry as a literal song in classical music:
also suited to a female voice:
One of my favorite symphonic movements in which counterpoint that even Bach would have appreciated and whose clever variations suggest Beethoven-- could anyone other than Mahler meld the two? depends on the trick of showing that completing the phrase is anticlimax. Gustav Mahler, Rondo-Burleske, final movement of his fifth symphony:
also suited to a female voice:
One of my favorite symphonic movements in which counterpoint that even Bach would have appreciated and whose clever variations suggest Beethoven-- could anyone other than Mahler meld the two? depends on the trick of showing that completing the phrase is anticlimax. Gustav Mahler, Rondo-Burleske, final movement of his fifth symphony:
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.