i just read the posts now and then, so i don't know exactly who said what to
whom, so this goes to the list in general.
to dis wagner because hitler liked his music is like ... well the analogies
are so abundant that i won't even write one. i leave it to your enlightened
heads.
to dis wagner's music because wagner was a horrible man is like ... again,
complete the analogy yourselves.
i very emphatically believe that only a very intellectually challenged
person can pass the kind of judgment i have read on this list about wagner's
music on the basis of politics.
folks, if you don't like opera, if it bores you, if you hate classically
trained voices, if you're only contact with opera has been the occasional
boheme or don giovanni, please refrain from making fools of yourselves.
i can go with, ?? i saw die walkure and i was bored to death?? or any
comment on your PERSONAL experience. you hated every minute? fine. i get it.
but it bothers me when you make unwarranted generalizations and judge what
you have no background or significant exposure to judge. it offends me as a
relatively intelligent member of this list.
sometimes many of you sound like those people who stopped LIKING woody allen
movies after he married his step-daughter.
wallyK
