Last Thursday morning (2/21), my friend of 35 years, William Hamlin, passed on. Those living in the DC area might remember him as an actor and radio announcer. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/26/AR2008022602768.html I like Wagner, but Bill was "the perfect Wagnerite". On his visits to his family in Oregon he'd drop by Seattle for a few days. In 2001, we got the

On 5/5/07 7:29 PM, Bert Coules, at mail@bertcoules.co.uk, wrote the following: Richard Partridge wrote: Well, I think it's a little more than that. Except for a fleeting mention by Wotan in "Walküre" and the moment when Siegfried takes it out of Fafner's cave, the ring doesn't figure at all in two long operas... Well, I think it's a little more than that. Wotan makes

The message <46078b6a$0$8756$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net> from "Bert Coules" <mail@bertcoules.co.uk> contains these words: Well, act two left me cold. And the sight of Mr West happily gambolling into the sunset at the end made me positively ill. I don't think I've previously encountered the suggestion that Siegfried and Fafner are some kind of mirror-image of each other

On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 01:03:36 GMT, Ralph <NoSpam@semqkz.net> wrote: Derrick Everett wrote: On Sat, 06 Jan 2007 06:44:22 -0800, leonora wrote: <There is one passage in the second act of Wagner's Siegfried at which devoted Wagnerians make a point of laughing;> He's referring to the point at which Siegfried tries to make a makeshift instrument from a reed, in order

Derrick Everett wrote: On Sat, 06 Jan 2007 06:44:22 -0800, leonora wrote: <There is one passage in the second act of Wagner's Siegfried at which devoted Wagnerians make a point of laughing;> He's referring to the point at which Siegfried tries to make a makeshift instrument from a reed, in order to imitate the song of the Woodbird....which is in fact only midly amusing