Goethe and O.J.
With just a dash of Richard Dreyfuss and Erika Szeles
[Moritz Oppenheim, “Mendelssohn plays to Goethe, 1830”]
I am currently memorizing Goethe poems in an effort to convince myself I am not suffering from age-related cognitive decline. And also just because they are written in such beautiful German.
But here (in English translation, natürlich) is one that I will not be memorizing, as I find myself in complet…