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News & ArtsMonday, July 26, 2010
Arts / Theater When Critics Knew How to Criticize (Part One in a Series)
Posted by Brendan Kiley on Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 4:56 PM
The Prelude to 'Tristan und Isolde' reminds one of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on a reel.
—Eduard Hanslick on Wagner, 1868.
(And dude on Bruckner: "It is not impossible that the future belongs to this traumverwirrten Katzenjammerstil ["nightmarish hangover style"], a future which we therefore do not envy.")
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'Richard Strauss, initially dismissive of Tristan, claimed that Wagner's music "would kill a cat and would turn rocks into scrambled eggs from fear of [its] hideous dischords." '
Copied from http://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/239…
Copied from http://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/239…
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Billy Wilder on Wagner: "I went to the opera to see something by Wagner, and it started at 8 o'clock. when i checked my watch at midnight, it said 8:15 pm."
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@3, my mother's way of introducing me to opera was to take me at age ten to Gotterdammerung. The ticket was very expensive, she said. Yeesh.
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Brendan
If you don't post about Mark Twain's essay on James Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses, I will.
Bill
If you don't post about Mark Twain's essay on James Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses, I will.
Bill
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