This project is now complete! All audio files can be found on our catalog page: https://librivox.org/memories-of-a-childhood-by-rainer-maria-rilke/
Each week a poem is chosen to be recorded by as many LibriVox volunteers as possible!LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Memories of a Childhood by Rainer Maria Rilke.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 7, 2022.
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Rainer Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 - 29 December 1926) was an Austrian poet and novelist. He is considered to be one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets, whose works include one novel, several collections of poetry and books of letters in which he invokes images that focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude and anxiety. Rilke remains one of the more popular and best-selling poets in the United States. (Summary by mungojerry311)
This week's poem can be found here.
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Begin your reading with the abbreviated LibriVox disclaimer:
Leave 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning.
Then read the poem:Memories Of A Childhood by Rainer Maria Rilke, read for librivox.org by [your name].
[Add, if you wish, date, and/or your location.]
At the end of your reading, leave a space and then say:The darkness hung like richness in the room
When like a dream the mother entered there
And then a glass's tinkle stirred the air
Near where a boy sat in the silent gloom.
The room betrayed the mother—so she felt—
She kissed her boy and questioned "Are you here?"
And with a gesture that he held most dear
Down for a moment by his side she knelt.
Toward the piano they both shyly glanced
For she would sing to him on many a night,
And the child seated in the fading light
Would listen strangely as if half entranced,
His large eyes fastened with a quiet glow
Upon the hand which by her ring seemed bent
And slowly wandering o'er the white keys went
Moving as though against a drift of snow.
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end.End of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
Filename: memoriesofachildhood_rilke_your initials in lowercase_128kb.mp3 (e.g. memoriesofachildhood_rilke_klh_128kb.mp3)
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