Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site tekecs.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!tektronix!orca!tekecs!jeffw
From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Wagner - an acquired taste
Message-ID: <3752@tekecs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 6-May-84 19:26:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: tekecs.3752
Posted: Sun May  6 19:26:25 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 13-May-84 00:36:19 EDT
Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR
Lines: 11

I agree. You know how I acquired it? I was accompanying a woman who was
doing the Immolation scene from Gotterdammerung, when I got a bug to go
through the whole score. Took me 20 hours the first time. Then I took a 
class which spent a lot of time on various excerpts from Tristan. So I
read through that, too. nobody ever told me about the third act (except
for the liebestod) or the last scene of the second act! After that I was
hooked. I'll wager that no one who gives the standard BS about Wagner being
"too long" or "too many notes" has ever read through a score of his. (no,
I'm not showing off; they were piano-vocal scores.)

					Jeff Winslow