Wagner moments : a celebration of favorite Wagner experiences / edited & annotated by J.K. Holman.
| Other author | Holman, J. K., editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Amadeus Press, 2007. |
| Description | xx, 231 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Carolyn Abbate -- Tim Albery -- Peter Allen -- Thomas Arthur -- Margaret Atwood -- W.H. Auden -- Robert Bailey -- Joe Banno -- Daniel Barenboim -- Charles Baudelaire -- Michael Berger-Sandhofer -- Lord Berners -- Günter Blobel -- Carol Ann Bogash -- Richard Bradshaw -- Frederick A. Buechner -- Jeffrey Buller -- Willa Cather -- Paul Cézanne -- Marcia Davenport -- Harry De Wildt -- Jonathan Dean -- Achille-Claude Debussy -- John Louis DiGaetani -- Plácido Domingo -- Les Dreyer -- Leslie Dunton-Downer -- T.S. Eliot -- Kenneth R. Feinberg -- Martin Feinstein -- Aurelius Fernandez -- Sherman Finger -- Benjamin Foster -- Peter Gelb -- Raymond Geuss -- Thomas Grey -- Stuart Hamilton -- Pamela Jones Harbour -- Daniel Herwitz -- Adams Holman -- Marilyn Horne -- Hans Hotter -- Christine Hunter -- Linda and Michael Hutcheon -- Henry James -- Speight Jenkins -- James Joyce -- Benjamin Kamins -- Wassily Kandinsky -- Alexandra Kauka -- |
| Contents | Winnie Klotz -- Evelyn Lear -- Father M. Owen Lee -- Oscar Levant -- Claude Lévi-Strauss -- Bernard Levin -- Michael Levine -- C.S. Lewis -- Jonathan Lewsey -- Saul Lilienstein -- George and Nora London -- Laura Maioglio -- Thomas Mann -- Peter Mark -- Thomas May -- Richard Mayer -- James McCourt -- Barry Millington -- Alisdair Neale -- Ernest Newman -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- John Edward Niles -- Ignacy Jan Paderewski -- Tim Page -- Jan Peerce -- John Pohanka -- Andrew Porter -- Marcel Proust -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir -- La Revue Wagnérienne -- Kenneth Ringle -- Rudolph Sabor -- John Singer Sargent and Judith Gautier -- Christina Scheppelmann -- Iain Scott -- George Bernard Shaw and Alfred Turco -- Beverly Sills -- Georg Solti -- Frederic Spotts -- Jason Stearns -- Thomas Stewart -- Jeffery Swann -- Roman Terleckyj -- Anthony Tommasini -- Arturo Toscanini -- Astrid Varnay -- Paul Verlaine -- Shirley Verrett -- Frederica von Stade -- Stephen Wadsworth -- Alan Wagner -- Richard Wagner -- John Ward -- Michael Wiedman -- Simon Williams -- Virginia Woolf -- Francesca Zambello. |
| Abstract | For the last 150 years the music dramas of Richard Wagner have deeply moved, thrilled, and amazed listeners everywhere--so much so that it has become a tradition for fans to share their peak "Wagner moments." The author assembles 107 such moments, anecdotes, and reflections from Wagner devotees past and present, famous and not so famous, musicians and non-musicians, placing them in biographical and historical context. Read about Wagner's close intellectual friendship with Friedrich Nietzsche and of his influence on the psyche and work of writers W.H. Auden, Charles Baudelaire, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Thomas Mann, and Marcel Proust. Other highlights include Daniel Barenboim on anti-Semitism in Wagner's work, Marilyn Horne on how she came to consider "Siegfried's Funeral March" "the most powerful music ever written," and C.S. Lewis on how Wagner sparked his rediscovery of "authentic joy." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-231). |
| LCCN | 2007021827 |
| ISBN | 9781574671599 |
| ISBN | 1574671596 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML410.W19 W13 2007 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |