{"id":306,"date":"2017-07-10T07:22:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T06:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/?p=306"},"modified":"2022-07-12T16:22:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T15:22:33","slug":"adyingchild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/adyingchild\/","title":{"rendered":"A dying child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>and a desperate parent. Erlk\u00f6nig by Schubert and the Erlkings.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TjfBBTZ1qAs?start=8\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Who rides through the night so late in the wild<br \/>\nIt is a father with his only child<br \/>\nHe holds him tight<br \/>\nHe holds him warm<\/p>\n<p>O father can you see<br \/>\nThe Erlking is near<br \/>\nThe evil Erlking with eyes burning red<\/p>\n<p>O father, O father can you not hear<br \/>\nThe Erlking whispering into my ear<\/p>\n<p>My father, my father can you not see<br \/>\nThe Erlking&#8217;s daughters are waiting for me<\/p>\n<p>O father O father he&#8217;s taking me away<br \/>\nThe evil Erlking has made me his prey<\/p>\n<p>In his arms &#8230; the boy &#8230; was dead<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Commentary<\/h3>\n<p>One of Schubert&#8217;s most popular songs, powerful and emotional. Bryan Benner&#8217;s translation and performance make it clear to an English speaker where that emotion comes from.<\/p>\n<p>Most commentaries on the work dwell on its symbolism, and the origin of the Erlk\u00f6nig legend. But it is essentially, and heartbreakingly, a song about a dying child. His father is anxious, heading as fast as he can for home in the night, but denies his son&#8217;s concerns, won&#8217;t discuss his impending death, until very late. What a common, tragic, end-of-life tale.<\/p>\n<p>Schubert lieder (songs), usually sung in the original German, are classic Old person&#8217;s classical music. The translations partially break the mystique round them: really these are folky tales. Some with power to move.<\/p>\n<h3>Further info<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theerlkings.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Erlkings website<\/a>; &#8216;the only band getting people to dance to Goethe&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Franz_Schubert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Franz Schubert<\/a> 1797-1828 (Wikipedia)<\/li>\n<li>The singer Bryan Benner is a classically trained baritone who, it has been suggested, might attract a younger audience to Schubert. Plausible? Next challenge would be his string quartets (e.g. the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=strhAkU7tJY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quartettsatz on YouTube<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li>Erlkings playing <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lAQ3KHIvDaE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Auf dem Wasser zu singen <\/a>in a Vienna bar (YouTube). They do Erlk\u00f6nig too, but with poor sound, and cheering at the end, which seems wrong.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Contributed by<\/h3>\n<p>Neil Turner<\/p>\n<h3>Rate this post<\/h3>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>More like this<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and a desperate parent. Erlk\u00f6nig by Schubert and the Erlkings. Who rides through the night so late in the wild It is a father with his only child He holds him tight He holds him warm O father can you see The Erlking is near The evil Erlking with eyes burning red O father, O <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/adyingchild\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_link_nofollow":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"yasr_overall_rating":0,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"BlogPosting","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,52],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-death","category-paediatrics","tag-music"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":6,"sum_votes":23},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1412,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/1412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}