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Jewish Publicity Hound, Valley Girl Blogger Unite Against Wagner’s Ring
Editor’s Note: Since his death in Venice on February 13, 1883, Richard Wagner has said not one unkind word about the Jews. Jews, however, have not returned the favor. In all fairness, however, Jews have also numbered among Wagner’s most important promoters and performers. Although I am a Wagnerphile, I am not one who will pay hundreds of dollars to have my intelligence insulted. Thus I will be boycotting the L.A. Opera’s new Ring cycle, in spite of its superb cast, not because the Ring is anti-Jewish, but because Achim Freyer’s production is all-too-Jewish–i.e., yet another silly parodist desecration of Wagner, such as have been the fashion since the end of World War II.
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County officials today will weigh in on whether the LA Opera should hold a festival honoring the music of Richard Wagner, an anti-semitic 19th-century composer.
The opera company is scheduled to perform Wagner’s “Ring” cycle opera over several months, starting in April 2010. It will also feature lectures and other events tied the composer.
But county Supervisor Michael Antonovich, who represents parts of the San Gabriel Valley, has introduced a motion calling on the Board of Supervisors to oppose the opera company’s plans to feature Wagner’s work so prominently.
Some have charged that his music, which was admired by Adolf Hitler, represents a Nazi ideology and should not be performed. But representatives of the opera company say Antonovich is attempting censorship.
The board lacks the power to regulate what music the opera company can perform: Today’s motion, if approved, would result in a letter from the board to the opera company asking it to lessen its focus on Wagner by including works by other composers and offering lectures focusing on Wagner’s openly anti-semitic views.
“This is not an issue of censorship but of balance,” Antonovich said. “They need to include individuals who object to how Wagner’s music was used by the Nazis…he shouldn’t be glorified.”
Local attorney E. Randol Schoenberg, who serves on the LA Opera board and is president of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, said Antonovich was using the issue to generate publicity for a cause few people are concerned about. “There is no groundswell of people who are opposed to this,” said Schoenberg.
He added that nobody at the opera company is trying to deny Wagner’s contemptible views.
“He was a crazy anti-semite, and a terrible person,” said Schoenberg. “I wouldn’t have him to dinner. But his music is undeniably great.”
He pointed out that similar debates about Wagner broke out in Israel in the 1990s, but his music was ultimately performed by the Israeli Philharmonic.
Carie Delmar, who has a local opera blog and has long opposed performing Wagner, said she’s concerned with the way Wagner’s music was used by the Nazis.
“For Holocaust survivors, his music brings back horrible memories,” said Delmar. “His music was, like, a soundtrack for the Holocaust.”
“L.A. County Supervisor Antonovich weighs in on Wagner’s opera”
by Dan Abendschein
San Gabriel Valley Tribune, July 20, 2009
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What’s disturbing about this type of story is it allows Jews like Schoenberg to appear reasonable.
Wagner wasn’t even the most popular composer in Nazi Germany. Verdi and Puccini were much more popular than Wagner during the Third Reich. It was mainly Hitler who promoted Wagner. Most of the Nazi cultural theorists associated Wagner and Bayreuth with decadent French homosexual culture.
This is typical: everything not Jewish must be destroyed or forgotten. This is essentially the message.
Will there be anything left of western civilization once they are done?
I am distraught. Fighting back in my own way I refuse to watch television (hmm that was easy) and never again allow rock music in my house . . . so nothing changes for me. It will change if they seek to ban Wagner recordings or any other western literature or music.
They want me as an enemy they can have me as an enemy .
Bruckner was among the most popular composers in Nazi Germany and the Adagio from his 7th Symphony was broadcast by the German radio (Deutscher Reichsrundfunk) upon announcing the news of Hitler’s death on 1 May 1945 :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruckner
Aside from the usual about Wagner being anti-jewish, I think the real objection could be in what the Ring actually SAYS!
From what I understand of the Ring, at least in terms of the libretti, Wagner used the Ring to sort out some of the problems and answer some of the questions raised by his previous works. Namely The Flying Dutchman, Tannhäuser, and Lohengrin.
These works were about the redemptive artist. How can he redeem himself and society. Wagner’s conclusion was found in the Ring.
The answer was, Nature, Society, the Personality, none of these things can be redeemed. It’s only Art that redeems us, and only in the act of creation and contemplation. Value, the sense of value has to be won everyday; a point Wagner took from Goethe’s Faust.
In short, a full grasp, or heck, even a partial grasp, of the main point of the Ring, that nature of Power and of Social Power reveal the impossibility of an adequate society.
Even the most hard-hearted, soft-headed person could see what courage it took Wagner to do what he did.
He had to create a new kind of opera, a new kind of orchestra, a new kind of conducting, a new kind of singer, and that was just with the music. Then he had to convince the king to go along and offer support, and he had to create a new way to raise the money to put it all together, the festival. He also had to convince the town were it was held and the townsmen were not always on the same page, did not always share his enthusiasm.
No wonder it took him thirty years!
It was a staggering human achievement that shows up jewish mediocrity and unoriginality.
OF COURSE THEY CAN’T CELEBRATE HIM!
But there’s more.
The most important part is that if one gets the basic idea behind the libretti that Social Redemption is impossible and that only Art (and not the State, as in the Politically Correct, Multi-Cultural Police State) redeems man, i.e., Creativity and Innovation; then one has a better, the best in fact, lens through which to view Jewish sociopathy at its best, or rather, at its worst!
THIS might very well be the hidden reason behind their hatred of him.
He shows them up, and gives them away.