Satoshi Akima wrote:

>We need to put the darkest chapters of Wagner interpretation behind us
>and to start anew.  That is why I insist on turning back to the texts
>themselves.  Then and only then does the true genius of his art begin
>to shine through.  Why will people not allow this to happen?

I agree wholeheartedly.  If the man now sometimes was antisemit, why need
to knead it over and over again? I think to be doomed to be the worlds
spitjar _for ever_ is a rather hard punishment.  Wagner came in conflict
with others to times, but as far as I am concerned, it is very seldom a
conflict is _only_ one sides fault....

Mats Norrman
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