MUSIC FROM THE PAST: SONG TO THE MOON

Forty-six years ago astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt became the last people to set foot on the moon.  **sigh**

From 2010. here the the absolutely glorious Renee Fleming singing Antonin Dvorak's "Song to the Moon" from 1901's Rusalka -- and doing it absolutely gloriously!  Jiri Belohlavek conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Here is the English translation;

Moon, high and deep in the sky

Your light sees far

You travel around the wide world,

And see into people's homes.

Moon, stand still a while

And tell me where is my dear.

Tell him, silvery moon,

That I am embracing him.

For at least momentarily

let him recall the memory of

me.

Illuminate him far away,

and tell him, tell him who is

waiting for him!

If his human soul is in fact

dreaming of me,

may the memory awaken him!

Moonlight, don't disappear,

disappear!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHM3zMBQxTQ