Full marks to Billy and everyone else involved for rescuing songs like this for posterity. What a tragedy for Eisler, Brecht and all the other great German artists - initially exiles from fascism, then hounded out of the US by McCarthyism and condemned to live out their last years in the Stalinist museum of grotesque monstrosities that was the German Democratic Republic and which they tragically believed to be a workers' paradise.
After Bierman's "Hugenottenfriedhof" is this the second song with the word "Eisler" and the first song full about Hanns Eisler I know!
what a beautiful guitar-finish: am grunde der moldau wandern die steine!!!
Rongart 2 years ago
Agree 100 %
5 *****
grummeper 2 years ago
Thanks for commenting. It's good to hear from someone who actually is familiar with the background to this song.
Deborah
deborahvk 2 years ago
Full marks to Billy and everyone else involved for rescuing songs like this for posterity. What a tragedy for Eisler, Brecht and all the other great German artists - initially exiles from fascism, then hounded out of the US by McCarthyism and condemned to live out their last years in the Stalinist museum of grotesque monstrosities that was the German Democratic Republic and which they tragically believed to be a workers' paradise.
levdt 2 years ago 2