WAGNER'S OPERAS
Sir,-I would like to support the appeal for more of Wagner’s operas. Thousands who are fascinated with Wagner’s creations hunger and thirst for more of them, It seems a travesty that, although one may tune in to numerous stations in New Zealand an abundance of grating, nerve-racking noise offends the ear, but so little of Wagnerian and other such decent music. Surely at least a small proportion of the rubbish that rends the air can be cut out and some of Wagner’s operas substituted. Is the ‘scarcity of Wagner’s music due to a lack of real musical appreciation in New Zealand? Surely it cannot be because Wagner happened to be a German, for music is music,;no matter from what person or seid it may come. Let me quote a few words from Ernest Newman’ 8 Lite of Wagner (two volumes of which have so far appeared) with reference to the Ring. They are "Such music might conceivably outlast the race that made it. . . . To-day it has the unmistakable quality of timelessness. Almost one can hear this music murmuring Brunnhilde’s words in Siegfried " Ewig war ich, ewig bin ich" (Eternal was I, eternal am I), It makes, for a time, one’s dreams and visions seem the only real experience.
LOHENGRIN
| (Wadestown).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 110, 1 August 1941, Page 4
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