Wagner Moments: A Celebration of Favorite Wagner Experiences

by James Holman

Book Overview

The music dramas of Richard Wagner have, for the last 150 years, thrilled and amazed listeners everywhere. In Wagner Moments, author J. K. Holman has assembled 100 such moments, from the living and dead, famous and not so famous, from Charles Baudelaire to Placido Domingo, musicians and non-musicians. Mr. Holman edits these stories, placing them in their biographical and historical context.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574671596
• ISBN13: 9781574671599
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

It's a fine recommendation for any classical music library.

For well over a hundred years the music dramas of Richard Wagner have thrilled audiences: to recapture the experience and celebrate its diversity, WAGNER MOMENTS: A CELEBRATION OF FAVORITE WAGNER EXPERIENCES gathers over a hundred anecdote and reflections from Wagner fans from C.S. Lewis and T.S. Eliot to James Joyce and Friedrich Nietzsche. It's a fine recommendation for any classical music library. Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch