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Posted on 10/18/2018 9:00:18 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Love Wagner! Listen to the ending of Parsifal, such beautiful and inspired music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgx8AxG3fe4
A composer of some very great music. But thankfully there are many other great compositions by others I’ll pass on Wagner.
Dick Wagner played some pretty Wagnerian guitar on this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqpWTC-rvhQ
In other words they have pals on this forum
A handful of loud folks
Used to be a lot more
Here’s a thread from memory lane to demonstrate
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1053265/posts
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The Tristan Chord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcE3kSX_y_c
Antonio Pappano discusses Wagner’s ‘Tristan’ chord (The Royal Opera)
On a ‘59 Les Paul Junior, in fact. With Steve Hunter. Some of my favorite guitar work.
I know the “Entrance of the Gods to Valhalla” quite well, it’s a magnificent piece of music with great writing for the brass section.
“What I detest are people trying to selectively rewrite history and impose modern day values on historical figures.”
They don’t realize that people in the future will detest what we think is acceptable now. They may nor realize that people in the past would detest what we think is acceptable now as well.
The best composers in history follow an arc from Mozart to Wagner to Gershwin to ... Led Zeppelin?
That mindset goes with the territory of Bush-brand Republicanism. They're basically Democrats with a somewhat more aggressive foreign policy and slightly lower taxes.
“She loves the way Puccini lays down a tune”
Angela Gheorghiu Tosca - Vissi d´Arte
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH1JrHsyaVs
“We must separate the artist from the art.”
Not sure who first said that, nor indeed if I’m remembering it accurately, word for word.
But my sense of the public debate in the United States is that the statement is frequently quoted by the Left, in defending depredations by Roman Polanksi and others like him.
Wagner really should have hired a competent librettist.
Indeed. Wagner wrote some great music. And it’s anazing how a few musical notes can impact human emotions
Wagner is a personal fav.
Rules....
Zepparella: Led Zeppelin When The Levee Breaks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH-_9cwdLug
I’m willing to purge Wagner from our collective lives, if, using the same logic, we can purge the Democrat party, which also has a history of racism and anti-semitism (one could argue it’s not just history either).
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