Status Updates From Wagner on Conducting (Dover...

I like his thinking, generally speaking, it is a characteristic trait of pseudo culture not to insist too much, not to enter deeply into a subject, or, as the phrase goes, not to make much fuss about anything.

gotta slow down to listen to the pieces which are mentioned, can picture the man, the composer, to think me a dolt & to be affronted were I to speed thru & not even acquaint myself w/the excerpts. so.

gotta slow down to listen to the pieces which are mentioned, can picture the man, the composer, to think me a dolt & to be affronted were I to speed thru & not even acquaint myself w/the excerpts. so.

Pretty in-depth, beyond me, I need to actually look at the pieces that are mentioned, so this will take some time, because I really wanna grasp his meanings & imports