I didn’t realize that Jessa Crispin had an advice column! @CosimaWagner is one of my favorite Twitter accounts.
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The Case for Allowing Richard Wagner’s Music to be Performed in Israel : The New Yorker
The part that matters most to me:
I am writing a book called “Wagnerism: Art in the Shadow of Music”
Yesssssssssssssss!
The Case for Allowing Richard Wagner’s Music to be Performed in Israel : The New Yorker
Meadowlark Lemons.: James Brown and Wagner: Tension and Release
Not even Reich’s music is as exhilaratingly tense as “Doing it to the Death,” or “The Payback.” Reich’s pieces take long, extended journeys; they are exquisite processes which slowly unfold through time, irreversibly. Brown’s best music never takes a journey: it’s either just where it should be, or tantalizingly close to where it should be.
Strangely enough, I think that ”The Payback” has more in common with Tristan und Isolde than it does with Glass or Reich. It’s all about tension and release.
This whole post is straight-up brilliant.
Meadowlark Lemons.: James Brown and Wagner: Tension and Release
At last R gets down again to his score, though he still has no pen which he likes.
Cosima Wagner. I have no idea who is behind the tweeted diaries of Richard Wagner’s second wife, but it’s one of my favorites. It’s a great inside view of a married couple, 19th-century upper-crust German social life, creative struggle, random dreams, etc. Here are a few other favorite excerpts.
Explaining Wagner’s Relevance To Soccer | The New Republic
A soccer game is a Wagner opera. The narrative sets up, the tension builds, the music ebbs and flows, the strings, the horns, more tension, and suddenly a moment of pure bliss, trumpet-tongued Gabriel sings, and gods descend from Olympus to dance—this peak of ecstasy. During these moments, I no longer am my usual self, no longer human. I am connected to life. Call it bliss, call it ecstasy, call it what you will. In that moment, I not only see God, I am God. I am not only connected to life, I am connected to my TV!
Mark Larson 