Mixtape

 Audio / Video files of songs mentioned in this story.

Sometimes he (Hanno) would recall the grail leitmotif or the “Wedding March” and then his eyelids would sink slowly and he could feel sobs welling up from deep inside.

Suddenly everything was silent. The recitation faltered and broke off. Herr Modersohn himself sat up and listened. How charming —clear, bell-like, dainty notes floated up from the back of the room and filled the silence with a sweet, graceful, tender melody. Someone had brought a music box and it was playing “Du, du liegst mir am Herzen,” in the middle of English class.