Eurythmy Performance

GA 277d/1923-07-21/p016 ·1923-07-21 · English MediumMedium alignmentSome paragraph re-numbering between this translation and the German original — the locus may slip by a paragraph or two.
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But on the whole, we must hold fast to the fact that one can only fully appreciate a poetic creation if one takes the following into account: the reciter, the declaimer, is only able to utter words. Everything artistic depends on how he utters the words. Then, for those who really know how to listen to recitation and declamation with an artistic ear, either an imaginative or a musical image must arise, an image either in sound or in tone, something that is far higher than the thought.

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