Wagnermani!

[Valentino]

The New York Times
October 23, 1898, Wednesday

The Wagner Mania.

Of course no one would be foolish enough to deny the genius, the colossal genius, of Wagner. That he was a composer of the first rank, in his own particular domain at least is as indisputable as that Beethoven remains the master of the symphony. But the point is that we are having too much Wagner.
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[emotikon]

Javel....nå er dette jo en fri verden for de fleste av oss. Var det muligens på den tiden også.
Når det blir for mye foppall på tv`n, så finner jeg bare på noe annet å gjøre. Som å lytte på Wagner foreks.
Alt folk skal syte over

 

[oddgeir]

Fra artikkelen, lege med døv pasient er på konsert på første rad for å høre Lohengrin:

The doctor accompanies his patient and sat beside him.
All of a sudden, while the noise of the instruments was at its loudest, the deaf man found he could hear.
"Doctor," he almost shrieked, "I can hear." The doctor took no notice. "I tell you, doctor," repeated the man in ecstasy, "you have saved me. I have recovered my hearing."
Still the doctor was silent; he had become deaf himself!


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