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Same. here you go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moaF9Ve6xZw
Thanks so much for the link, figureskateobasan. The performance of Liebestraum begins at about 30 minutes. Here is a beautiful photo of Mao performing to Liebestraum. She is skating on one leg with the other lifted behind her, her chest stretched out in front and her arms spread wide- swan like- with her eyes looking longingly to the sky, as if she is about to take flight. Liebestraum means Love Poem or Dream of Love and Mao skates to the third piano solo work, which is about Mature Love.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_h3HborB6LT8/TMXQjUKQk3I/AAAAAAAAJyo/C756p0c1ojw/s1600/Asada+free+skate.jpg
I found this translation of the lyrics at the following website:
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070923170705AAadUWk
O lieb, so lang du lieben kannst!
O lieb, so lang du lieben magst!
Die Stunde kommt, die Stunde kommt,
wo du an Gräbern stehst und klagst !
and this translation:
O love, so long as you can!
O love, so long as you may!
The time comes, the time comes,
Where you'll cry and weep on their graves!
Here is a longer prose translation:
"Oh, love, love for as long as you are able to love, for as long as you like to love.
The hour will come when you stand at gravesides and lament.
Ensure that your heart glows, and fosters and nurtures Love,
For as long as another heart beats warmly with love towards you.
And when that other closes the breast towards you, do what you can towards the other to love,
And make the other happy every hour, and for no moment make the other sad!
And guard your tongue well: all too soon a harsh word can escape from it.
O God -- it was not meant in malice -- but the other departs and weeps."
How fitting a piece for Mao to skate to with her mother about to pass away. So beautiful yet so sorrowful, entreating us to savor every fleeting moment we have with the ones we love, and Mao skates to this piece so soulfully and elegantly. I really love her performance of Liebestraum.
This is my favorite performance she did to this piece of music 4CC's 2011:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_fHcE4uFg4
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