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In Reply to: Re: Have you ever seen Lang's "Niebelungen" films? posted by patrickU on July 11, 2005 at 06:21:54:

My best friend surprised me with a visit Saturday. After enjoying dinner, we retired to the den and I began playing for him some of the music I was listening to, without first telling him what it was. When I put on the opening to "Rheingold," he sat back on the couch and listened with eyes closed. Four minutes into the opening, about a minute before the Rhine maidens begin singing, he looked at me and asked, "What is this music the start of?!" He was absolutely amazed at what he was listening to. Distance had shielded him from my enjoyment of Wagner, but now he has been exposed! And now, like a junior high school student given their first dime bag, he wants MORE!
Thanks to everyone for their comments on Lang's films. I understand that, while drawn from the same sources as Wagner's work, they are different in many ways. The conversations here about Lang have inspired me! I will order them this week!

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Re: " A little correction "----- - patrickU 05:06:55 07/12/05 (4)
I wrote the sheer beauty thing for Fritz Lang film but not, h�las, for Wagner music.
I agreed in fact with Victor on his judgement on him.
At first I was a admirer of Wagner in my younger years. And some pieces of his music I still would love if I did not knew what kind of man he was.
Barenboim is one of his more ardent supporter this days.
Still his music is at best spectacular.
F.Lang is a cultural must.
- Re: " A little correction "----- - Gee LP 13:08:31 07/12/05 (3)
  I saw the ambiguity in your statement as it was worded but hoped for the best!
  Wagner the man, by most accounts, abominable in many ways.
  Wagner the artist...one of the giants.
  But I understand your position.
  And Lang? Well, there we agree!
  - Re: " A little correction "----- - patrickU 04:08:13 07/13/05 (2)
    Yes Lang no doubt is one of the greatest.
    His " M " is so strong and so intelligently made. A parabole that defy times.
    As for Wagner even his early admirer Nietsche left him, in horror.
    But still one little piece of music I still like...the monk entrance...
    - Re: Yes. Mark Twain loved that music, too! - Gee LP 17:11:35 07/13/05 (1)
      Of course, his famous quote about seeing the Ring at Bayreuth was, "The best singing I have heard since the night the orphanage burned down."
      But he considered the monk's entrance to be so good as to justify following performances of it around the world. Which he found himself in the position of doing in the late 1880s and early 1890s!
      - Re: Yes. Mark Twain loved that music, too! - patrickU 01:01:55 07/14/05 (0)
        
        In Reply to: Re: Yes. Mark Twain loved that music, too! posted by Gee LP on July 13, 2005 at 17:11:35:
        
        Oh, I did not knew that story but I also very little on MT! Yet this little piece of music make it hard for me to forget all about this man.
        And it is the old question: Must I know what the man was to appreciate his work?
        My answer would be there is a limit, but every one must decide when it start to hurt....

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