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Wagner: The State of the Question (For the benefit of anyone coming across this post in isolation from its predecessors of the past two weeks: I am writing this after having seen a repeat of the Metropolitan Opera’s 2011-12 Live in HD broadcast of its new Ring cycle.) I suppose I should say “The Ring” instead of…
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It’s only when we try not to experience our special suffering that it can really break us. —Carryl Houselander, from Maisie Ward’s biography of her
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At just under five hours, it seemed a little too short.
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Weekend Music Don't worry, this is not about to become an all-Wagner blog. I may write about him Sunday, or may not depending on how much time I have. But a great deal of my time apart from my job has been or will be (Götterdämmerung this afternoon) spent attending the Ring this week, so naturally it's…
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The closing words of Siegfried: leuchtende Liebe,lachender Tod! or radiant love,joyful death! Now of course there’s a way of meaning those words that could be very true and very Christian, but I’m afraid it’s just death-wish romanticism. Correct me if I’m wrong.
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I'm not sure when I'll have a chance to say more about last night's Siegfried, but here's a quick note about the singer in the title role, Jay Hunter Morris. I'm not very knowledgeable about classical singers, just enough that I generally recognize the big names. I did not recognize Morris's name, but didn't assume…
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Seems like it would be a shame to pass up the opportunity to eat popcorn at the opera at least once.
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I saw this second opera of The Ring last night, all four hours of it, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm definitely into this now; I hope nothing prevents me from seeing Siegfried Wednesday and Götterdämmerung on Saturday. I believe I like Walküre better than Rheingold musically. Although for the most part I've been finding Wagner more interesting than moving, the…
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Part of my routine when I arrive at work every morning involves downloading some data from the web site of a company we work with. They always have a quotation on the login page, and they change it every day. Sometimes it's humorous, more often it's vaguely inspirational in a pop-psychology self-help you-can-do-it sort of…
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Today is Mother's Day, and has been very full of activity. I've had no time to write, so I will offer you something I wrote for Mother's Day 2006. It's hard for me to believe that that was six years ago. And I've been contemplating the fact that the year 2000 now seems a fairly…
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