[MayflowerMadam]

Thanks for “Traumerei”. Flashback to piano recital stage fright. Oy!

[ConorMacNessa]

You are quite welcome, of course, Madam! I am not a pianist, but I have always loved this piece. I remember many years ago seeing a film with Katharine Hepburn - a Schumann bio. "Traumerei" figured in that film both at the beginning and at the end with both the child Kaiser-to-be and with the elderly Kaiser. Also, in a scene I will never forget, where Clara Schumann, sitting in an outdoor restaurant, asks a strolling violinist playing "Traumerei" how he knows that work. His answer: "Madam, I am a musician."

"I am an American fighting man. I serve in the forces which guard my country and our way of life.
I am prepared to give my life in their defense."