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- From: tony@cns.nyu.edu (Tony Movshon)
- Subject: Meistersinger
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- Organization: New York University
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 04:20:11 GMT
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- Sunday's New York Times featured an extraordinarily mean-spirited piece
- by Edward Rothstein, in which he revives and rehashes the old argument
- that Meistersinger is yet *another* example of Wagner's anti-semitism,
- because Beckmesser is a thinly-veiled caricature of a Jew (as well as of
- Wagner favorite critic, the Brahms champion Hanslick).
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- I find the general argument about Wagner's anti-semitism tedious, mostly
- because it does not seem to me to explain anything important about the
- music and drama. I find it particularly irritating when applied to
- Meistersinger, because of its position as the warmest and most human of
- the Wagner operas (and for me the greatest, unless I've heard
- Goetterdaemmerung recently ... ). In any case I confidently expect the
- music to sweep Rothstein's piece out of my head when I go to see the
- new production on Saturday night.
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- If you haven't read the Times yet, skip the Rothstein and turn over the
- page to read a nice piece by r.m.c. regular Jon Alan Conrad on records
- of little-known English romantic symphonists ...
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