Klarinet Archive - Posting 000057.txt from 2005/07
From: "mlmarmer" <mlmarmer@-----.com> Subj: Re: [kl] Long Concert Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 19:45:29 -0400
From a clarinet friend:
He should be thankful he doesn't live in Bayreuth. Wagner's
"Gotterdammerung" has a total of 5.5 hours of music. It is divided into
three acts and a prologue. Each act is played with no pauses whatsoever...
no breaks for applause as there often are during Italian
operas.
Joseph H. Lechner, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry
Mount Vernon Nazarene University
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