Added: Jul 21, 2009

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Allegretto und Andante aus der Suite für Septett Nr. 1 op. 92a (Kinderszenen - Variationen über amerikanische Kinderlieder), 1940 A Child Went Forth (1941) Dokumentarfilm, USA 1941 Produktion: National Association of Nursery Educators Drehbuch: Joseph Losey Regie: Joseph Losey, John Ferno Eisler stellte Teile dieser Filmmusik zur Suite für Septett Nr. 1 op. 92a („Variationen über amerikanische Kinderlieder) zusammen. The complete film is available on DVD: Hanns Eislers Rockefeller-Filmmusik-Projekt 19401942, als Beilage einer Sonderausgabe des Buchs Komposition für den Film von Theodor W. Adorno und Hanns Eisler (Suhrkamp, Frankfurt/M. 2006). Enthält die Filme A Child Went Forth, White Flood und Regen (zum Teil in mehreren Fassungen) sowie Szenen aus The Grapes of Wrath, jeweils mit Musik von Hanns Eisler. source: hanns-eisler.com Walt Whitman (1819-1892), Leaves of Grass (1900) 103. There was a Child went Forth THERE was a child went forth every day; And the first object he lookd upon, that object he became; And that object became part of him for the day, or a certain part of the day, or for many years, or stretching cycles of years. The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and red clover, and the song of the phoebe-bird, 5 And the Third-month lambs, and the sows pink-faint litter, and the mares foal, and the cows calf, And the noisy brood of the barn-yard, or by the mire of the pond-side, And the fish suspending themselves so curiously below there—and the beautiful curious liquid, And the water-plants with their graceful flat heads—all became part of him. The field-sprouts of Fourth-month and Fifth-month became part of him; 10 Winter-grain sprouts, and those of the light-yellow corn, and the esculent roots of the garden, And the apple-trees coverd with blossoms, and the fruit afterward, and wood-berries, and the commonest weeds by the road; And the old drunkard staggering home from the out-house of the tavern, whence he had lately risen, And the school-mistress that passd on her way to the school, And the friendly boys that passd—and the quarrelsome boys, 15 And the tidy and fresh-cheekd girls—and the barefoot negro boy and girl, And all the changes of city and country, wherever he went. His own parents, He that had fatherd him, and she that had conceivd him in her womb, and birthd him, They gave this child more of themselves than that; 20 They gave him afterward every day—they became part of him. The mother at home, quietly placing the dishes on the supper-table; The mother with mild words—clean her cap and gown, a wholesome odor falling off her person and clothes as she walks by; The father, strong, self-sufficient, manly, mean, angerd, unjust; The blow, the quick loud word, the tight bargain, the crafty lure, 25 The family usages, the language, the company, the furniture—the yearning and swelling heart, Affection that will not be gainsayd—the sense of what is real—the thought if, after all, it should prove unreal, The doubts of day-time and the doubts of night-time—the curious whether and how, Whether that which appears so is so, or is it all flashes and specks? Men and women crowding fast in the streets—if they are not flashes and specks, what are they? 30 The streets themselves, and the façades of houses, and goods in the windows, Vehicles, teams, the heavy-plankd wharves—the huge crossing at the ferries, The village on the highland, seen from afar at sunset—the river between, Shadows, aureola and mist, the light falling on roofs and gables of white or brown, three miles off, The schooner near by, sleepily dropping down the tide—the little boat slack-towd astern, 35 The hurrying tumbling waves, quick-broken crests, slapping, The strata of colord clouds, the long bar of maroon-tint, away solitary by itself—the spread of purity it lies motionless in, The horizons edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud; These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day.

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