Review

Afternoon of song continues fine tradition

By Mike Brettargh
Updated March 3 2020 - 11:07am, first published March 2 2020 - 3:46pm

"On Wings of Song" is a poem by the German Romantic poet Heinrich Heine, published in "Buch der Lieder" in 1827. However, the words are more widely known, and used, because the composer Felix Mendelssohn set the poem to music as the second of his "Six songs for voice and piano" in 1834.

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