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In Reply to: Re: "Extraordinary in their sheer beauty." posted by Gee LP on July 11, 2005 at 10:18:14:

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.

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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)
      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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