Mats Norrman wrote:

>Wagner was not an antisemite (and neither was Hitler in the strict sence -
>he was rather anti-jew), and a semite can safely listen to and love Wagners
>music (and I would say a born jew can too).

Give me a break.  That's a distinction without a difference.  I'm just
starting to get into Wagner's music, insofar as it was such an influence on
Mahler.  But it took a few years of hand-wringing even to get this far, due
to RW's anti-Semitism.  Call it what you will, everyone knows what it is.
And what *he* is.

Mitch Friedfeld