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"Erbarme dich, mein Gott, um meiner Zaehren willen."
"Have mercy on me, my God, for my tears' sake."
Marian Anderson (1897-1993), singing JS Bach's "Erbarme dich mein Gott" in 1939 in front of the Lincoln Memorial, perhaps the best ever performance of this most painful and most loving of all of Bach's arias, and also the most political of them all.
Anderson was black, and she was prevented from performing at Constitution Hall. Eleanor Roosevelt helped letting her perform at the Lincoln Memorial. (From Wikipedia.)
What a voice.
This song is Bach's deepest plea for mercy, of all his songs, and the warmth of Marian Anderson's voice makes us experience it fully. So fiitting to see the connection to Black Liberation.
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