Christopher Webber on Wagner and Verdi:
>When it comes to these wonderful, late masterworks, something tells me you
>may prefer the Sacred Music Drama of the Holy Fool to the Secular Opera of
>the Fat Knight, but that's no reason to denigrate the wisdom, humanity and
>musical beauty of the Italian's radiant, sunset vision.
And Verdi took that secular operatic idiom and used it to produce the
beautiful and (dare I say it?) spiritual Four Sacred Pieces.
Professor Bernard Chasan
Physics Department, Boston University