Ride Of The Valkyries by Richard Wagner [][] ESP/WB heard The Ring from the 1st row, balcony, at the Festspielhaus (recommended!!:) at Bayreuth’s 100th Jahre Festspiele, eg: www.youtube.com | www.bayreuther-festspiele.de (along with all the operas listed) | www.youtube.com — that year conducted by Boulez and stage-designed by Chiroux, to some serious derision by (I presume) local Bavarians, which is why I include a few seconds from Claudio Abbado’s similar, but rather less marked experience. It wasn’t The 1913 Paris premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du Printemps) which the reader will know was met with critical protest, and produced a near riot. But it was quite informative of conservative thinking in an art form progressing continuously up to and including WD Brindle’s (progressing continuously) — of the Lancashire Brindle Composer’s Group — recent Fantasia for Clarinet [hear here]; from well before Josquin des Prez. (Note/see: Ring Cycle: Die Walküre at the Metropolitan Opera www.wqxr.org [2nd in the Ring Cycle of four operas - special thanks to King Ludwig the 2nd of Bavaria, who reportedly read a literal note of desperation in Wagner's libretto-intensive, published, Nibelungen poem. www.encyclopedia.com "..{Wagner} sketched the remaining poems for the Ring by the end of 1851. He completed Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold) in 1852 after he had revised the poem for Die Walküre (The Valkyrie)."] [][] The unixcab YouTube Channel. Created using the …

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