tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46443033820145444552026-10-25T10:32:03.927-07:00In search of ecstasy, perspective and dissonance resolution in the composer's bi-centennial year.ramcduffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12575821484262062128noreply@blogger.comBlogger5513tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4644303382014544455.post-34158759923280894482013-12-27T18:33:00.010-08:002023-06-01T20:09:26.760-07:00

I began this blog a year ago with the aim of resolving the cognitive dissonance between my love of Wagner’s music with his reputation as a monster. I started the process of thinking this through years ago as I recounted in my introduction here.  I sought as much understanding as possible. I don’t mean just of Wagner and his times, but also of myself and human nature itself. &

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My blog is coming to a close next post; I still have a few items left on my agenda beyond the grand wrap-up. They follow below. Wagner as Patron Saint of Burning Man Kinder, macht neues! Neues! Und abermals neues!  (Children, make something new! New! And new again!) – Richard Wagner1 Wagner was an art revolutionary.  He believed that art should be at the pinnacle of society, and

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Every man or woman in charge of the music of moving picture theater is, consciously or unconsciously, a disciple or follower of Richard Wagner – Stephen Bush, film critic, 1911 Please write music like Wagner, only louder – Sam Goldwyn to a film composer If my grandfather were alive today, he would undoubtedly be working in Hollywood —Wolfgang Wagner (Note: When I mention a film composer in

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