Theos-Talk Archives (April 1996 Message tl00134)

Boy, Alexis,

You know all the details about everybody's sex life. I knew Leonard
Bernstein was gay, or bisexual, he had a wife, but I didn't know it about
Aaron Copland. What kind of revolutionary sex life did Wagner have? I
wouldn't put it past him to have done it standing on his head.

Liesel
Member TI, TSA, TS in Canada, HR
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>At 10:21 PM 4/9/96 -0500, you wrote:
>>On Tue, 9 Apr 1996, liesel f. deutsch wrote:
>>> Hi, Alexis,
>>> We agree on Beethoven ... and on Mozart. When it comes to Wagner, I know
>>> you're right. One of my college courses was on Wagner, & I ended it with a
>>> 30pp paper on "Meistersinger", which I researched almost as carefully as
>>> Wagner did. Did you know that he used some of the original Meister songs? I
>>> enjoy Wagner, but the enjoyment is tarnished by the fact that he was the
>>> Nazis' folk hero. I like Shostakovitch, but to me, he's not that
>>> outstanding. I prefer Aron Copland.
>>> Liesel
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>>Liesel ...
>>	Yes ... I love Wagner myself, but I think it was Dave Barry that
>>once said "I enjoy Wagner's music, but every time I hear it I get an
>>inexplicable urge to invade Poland".
>>							(-:), -JRC
>>
>>Ah yes..the germans...the Russians...(my family had large estates in
>Poland)...the austrians...the Lithuanians....the Swedes.....and even the
>Hungarians (in Gregor Rokoczy's time)...and of course the Mongols and the
>Teutonic Knights...all felt the urge to invade Poland...EVERYBODY invades
>Poland..tha Nazis just capitalized on what appears to be a universal hobby!
>The fascinating thing about R.Wagner, is that despite the fact that he was a
>totally dispicable SOB, he was something of a left-wing political
>revolutionary, especially in his younger days! He was certainly a sexual
>revolutionary!
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>alexis
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