Klarinet Archive - Posting 001316.txt from 2000/12

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: RE: [kl] Wagner vs. Straus (was Wlach a Nazi)
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 12:34:27 -0500

At 12:14 PM 12/29/2000 -0500, you wrote:
> End of sermon. We return you now to our regularly scheduled
> programming.

I must say I have read every word of Ken Wolman's and Dan Leeson's
presentations of Wagner and Strauss with great admiration for detail. This
is very interesting stuff - and the kind of stuff that should be discussed
more often in the music history class.

Ken wrote:
"And some people are just stupid. Richard Strauss as a composer
belongs in the same league as Wagner: for me Rosenkavalier, Salome, and
Elektra are among the supreme expressions of human emotion musically
expressed. Does that mean Strauss was a more moral human being than the
rest of us? No. Does the fact he hid under the bed during the war
make him a boot-clicking Nazi? No. It just makes him an ordinary
sad case of a human being who is rather like more of us than more of us
will want to admit."

The same can be said for any person in any walk of life. If in music - it
can most definitely be said about some specific conductors and some
specific performers.

I'm very interested in this thread - keep it going........no end of sermon!!!

Sincerely,
Roger Garrett

Roger Garrett
Assistant Professor of Clarinet
Director, Symphonic Winds
Advisor, IWU Recording Services
Illinois Wesleyan University
School of Music
Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
Phone: (309) 556-3268
Fax: (309) 556-3121

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