jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) (05/07/84)
I agree. You know how I acquired it? I was accompanying a woman who was doing the Immolation scene from Gotterdammerung, when I got a bug to go through the whole score. Took me 20 hours the first time. Then I took a class which spent a lot of time on various excerpts from Tristan. So I read through that, too. nobody ever told me about the third act (except for the liebestod) or the last scene of the second act! After that I was hooked. I'll wager that no one who gives the standard BS about Wagner being "too long" or "too many notes" has ever read through a score of his. (no, I'm not showing off; they were piano-vocal scores.) Jeff Winslow