Klarinet Archive - Posting 000103.txt from 2007/05

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] SV: Wagner
Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 17:13:03 -0400

Not at all Sarah. It is rather that you so uninformed about the
situation that you have dates, circumstances, and reasons all
mixed up. You don't even have the right information about when
and why the IPO stopped playing Wagner. If you had read Uri
Toeplitz' history of the IPO, you might have gotten it right.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: sarah elbaz [mailto:sarah@-----.com]
Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 11:56 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] SV: Wagner

Dan,
I am sure that you are very glad that someone gave you the ladder
to get off the tree :-)
Sarah

> -------Original Message-------
> From: dnleeson <dnleeson@-----.net>
> Subject: RE: [kl] SV: Wagner
> Sent: 13 May '07 20:08
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> With Sarah Elbaz's comments that depart from the central issue
of
> the Wagner discussion, I now withdraw from further
participation
> in what has now become a confused mess. Instead of the problem
> becoming focused, it has become diffused and chaotic.
>
> Dan Leeson
> DNLeeson@-----.net
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: sarah elbaz [mailto:sarah@-----.com]
> Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 10:22 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] SV: Wagner
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> >  -------Original Message-------
> >  From: Paolo Leva <paolo.leva@-----.se>
> >  Subject: [kl] SV: Wagner
> >  Sent: 13 May '07 08:53
> >
> >  IMHO the complexity of Wagner's Ring really cannot be
> >  reduced to "good characters" against the "evil ones".
> >  There are no characters in the ring that are simply
> >  good and others that are simply bad. I wonder whether
> >  Wagner had any interest at all in concepts like "good"
> >  and "bad", I believe he did not.
> >
> >  This kind of good/bad classification is a
> >  simplification that might be appropriate for Disney,
> >  Tolkien and much of nowadays "action movies" crap, not
> >  for Wagner. The complexity of both characters and
> >  music is much greater than that. The complexity
> >  further increase when you put text and music together,
> >  since often they tell different, even opposite things.
> >
> >  For instance to see Siegfried as the "good" one
> >  prevailing against Mime the "bad" one is to extract
> >  one episode and choose to ignore the context.
> >  Unfortunately this is exactly the simplification done
> >  by the nazi to be able to use the Ring in their
> >  propaganda. I believe and hope that it is now time to
> >  move away from that simplification.
> >
> >  The Wagner of the ring is in many respect the same
> >  person that earlier wrote Tannhäuser and later wrote
> >  Parsifal, a man deeply involved to understand the
> >  human condition, its suffering, its fall and its way
> >  to redemption.
> >
> >  The mix of mythologies (German and other) was the tool
> >  he chose to deliver his message and to represent the
> >  human mind. It was not THE message.
> >
> >  I myself found the book of Robert Donington "Wagner's
> >  Ring and its symbol" quite a stimulating reading to
> >  catch this complexity, but most of all I recommend
> >  people wondering about antisemitism in Wagner's ring
> >  to go and see the whole ring with an open mind.
> >
> >  Paolo
>
> Paolo,
>
> I think that there is a big misunderstanding here.  The debat
"
> To Wagner or not to Wagner"
> has nothing to do with his music, it is about the abuse of
> Wagner's music by the Nazis.
>
> The boycott started in Israel in 1952.  Yasha Heifetz played
> Richard Strauss and after the concert
> someone attact him with an  hammer.  Only then people started
to
> understand that the surviviors
> can not hear this music and the Israel Phil decided not to
play
> Wagner and Strauss.
>
> Wagner was a greart composer, there is no argument about that.
> Dan Lesson can write anything about Wagner
> but when he turns on the television and watches hundreds of
> advertisements, he praises
> Wagner.  After all , what is an advertisement if not a
> leitmotiv?.
>
> Tony and I had a long discussion about that when he was in
Israel
> last December.  I told him that
> the boycott against Wagner's music can not stop because for so
> many people the holocaust
> is not over yet.  There are people among us who have no idea
when
> and where they were born,
> who are their parents and what is their name.  People with
second
> and third generation syndrom
> can not affoerd the luxury of such debats because they need
all
> the energy in the world to get up
> in the morning.  I have nothing against Wagner's music , but
> since Israel is a SHELTER and not just another
> state the priorities here are different.
>
> If we want to to have a serious discussion about antisemitism,
I
> think that we should face some more
> difficult questions.
> For example:   Amazon .com .  Is there any one on this list
who
> didn't buy or sell books and CD's
> through Amazon?   And if I tell you that Amazon sells more
copies
> of the" Protocols of the Elders of Zion"
> then the Bible and they refuse to stop spreading this poison
> because of the profit they make from this book, would you
still
> buy ans sell through Amazon?
> I would love to get an answer to this question.
> Sarah Elbaz
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> >  Sökmotor, shopping, resor och gratis E-post online.
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