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Applying Carl Orff therapy to the potheads living below my apartment.

Julie R. Neidlinger
Jan 20
4 min read

Many years ago, my German sister Bine gave me a Carl Orff CD.

I have received many German classical CDs from her, often dark, brutal, and a reminder that Chopin’s Polish version of melodic depression is very different from most German composers’ versions; it is the difference between writing poetry and sharpening axes. It has often seemed to me that German composers were either overly jolly with beer, waltzes, and positivity, or starting a metallurgical war.