you joke but even when I was in music school 15 years ago (early-mid smartphone era) sitting through the second act of Tristan in my opera and modernity seminar was seemingly impossible for most
The College Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Wagner
“Ten, fifteen years ago, I would send them off to Götterdämmerung or Die Meistersinger, and they would come back eager to talk about how the leimotifs recur across the entirety of the piece,” Professor Boltz told me. “And these weren’t just the opera nerds. It was everyone. No…
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