A Wagnerian Morning
May. 9th, 2014 09:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzy_daveAfter yesterday's wash out, this morning looks sunny and warmer. Hence ,bestirring morning music is the order of the day. I think it should be on a grand scale, and Wagnerian. Oh yes , the perfect piece, Ride of The Valkyries.
But like Stephen Fry, i am slightly queasy about some of the anti-Semitic tendencies surrounding the composer,who was anti-Fascist, and yet, because of Hitler's regime taking up the mantle of the composer, I find it sometimes difficult to separate the music of the Norse myths from the surrounding Nazi ideology.
Here is Stephen Fry, a Jewish writer, presenter, comedian, and a Wagner buff, addressing the anti-Semitism associated with Wagner, and visits Bayreuth. He lost some of his family in the Holocaust.
Enjoy the music on its own terms.
But like Stephen Fry, i am slightly queasy about some of the anti-Semitic tendencies surrounding the composer,who was anti-Fascist, and yet, because of Hitler's regime taking up the mantle of the composer, I find it sometimes difficult to separate the music of the Norse myths from the surrounding Nazi ideology.
Here is Stephen Fry, a Jewish writer, presenter, comedian, and a Wagner buff, addressing the anti-Semitism associated with Wagner, and visits Bayreuth. He lost some of his family in the Holocaust.
Enjoy the music on its own terms.
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