by Barry Lenson | Sep 12, 2016 | Camille Saint-Saens, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, Uncategorized
Over Labor Day weekend, I decided to write a post for this blog about all the wonderful pieces of classical music that celebrate working. The problem seems to be, there aren’t too many of them. At the same time – and this is funny – there is no shortage of popular...
by Barry Lenson | Aug 1, 2016 | German Supernatural Opera, Opera, Richard Wagner, Uncategorized
In a future post, I’ll be sharing some of the basic information that classical music bluffers need to know about the operas of Richard Wagner (1813-1883). Today, we will listen to some of the rather spooky German romantic operas that influenced him. If the topic of...
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