Stories from Paolino's Tapes. CD

1) The Threepenny Opera A tiny commentary on the wrong rendition in English of a piece from this opera, describing how he was impressed by a single line in Brecht's libretto.2) FalstaffOn Verdi's opera after Shakespeare.3) Fury The story of Fritz Lang's movie.4) Schrödinger Description of what kind of person the physicist Erwin Schrödinger was and Feyerabend's relationship with him.5) MacbethFeyerabend reads Verdi's thoughts on Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking scene: una macchia.6) Xenophanes Some Xenophanes fragments, read by Feyerabend in his own translation, attempting to respect the original metric rhythm.7) Paul Robeson, Joe Louis, Max SchmelingFeyerabend explains a lullaby sung by Paul Robeson, describes the life of this American football star and also a bit of the story of Joe Lewis and Max Schmeling.