Klarinet Archive - Posting 000261.txt from 2005/05

From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Wagner again
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 13:21:31 -0400

Tony Pay wrote:

> [Much interesting stuff about Wagner]

Wasn't Wagner, among other things, something of a proto-feminist? I
recall hearing the Nazis had to turn upside-down his attitudes to women
to make his work fit with their macho agenda.

I have to confess I know little about him and little of his music,
although what I have heard struck me as remarkable---above all his
amazing sense of orchestral colour.

I remember a (very left-wing) German friend raving to me about the sheer
explicit sexuality of the music of Tristan and Isolde---apparently
including a very vivid musical description of Coitus Interruptus :-D

-- Joe

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