Wait that's my song...........

[huckleboogie]

it was that damn guy Wagner that screwed it all up [/quote]

hehehe ,he's from my town. i live half a mile from the opera house in dresden where he worked from 1843-48...

[Bobby D]

it was that damn guy Wagner that screwed it all up

hehehe ,he's from my town. i live half a mile from the opera house in dresden where he worked from 1843-48...[/quote]


do they still do that annual concert where they do the whole 24 hour long song cycle of Wagner's?

ah, the sound of the demise of 12-tone western harmony.

and it was all downhill from there

[huckleboogie]

do they still do that annual concert where they do the whole 24 hour long song cycle of Wagner's?

ah, the sound of the demise of 12-tone western harmony.

and it was all downhill from there

they still do that, but in another town, Bayreuth, 3 hrs south of Dresden. well, Wagner. i got mixed feelings bout the guy. seen a fair share of his operas, and theres some of the greatest music in there....the orchestra overture of "Lohengrin" is just not from this world..... on the other hand his anti-semitic statements. he couldnt foresee that it would be "misused" some decades later, but still it can't be denied that he wrote a nasty essay about jewish composers.
interesting: Charlie Chaplin has obviously felt the 2 sides of Wagner, and he used the aforementioned overture twice in "the great dictator": first time when Hinckel is playing with the inflatable globe, but ALSO in the ending sequence, when the world is freed from the dictator.

[Bobby D]

that's right, it's Bayreuth where they have the Wagner fest.

well, that's the extent of my expensive liberal arts education in music history. i am able to know all this sort of arcane knowledge.