Wagner’s legacy, musical and otherwise, has long been an unavoidable issue for the composers who followed him. Right from the start, there were those who embraced his example (Bruckner, Schoenberg, Debussy) and those who rejected it (Stravinsky, Satie . . . and Debussy again!). Even today, more than 130 years after Wagner’s death, many composers still feel strongly…
The Wagner Society of NSW presents The Ups and Downs of Wagner on Film, a lecture given by Heath Lees. Emeritus Professor of Music at Auckland University. In this talk Professor Lees will discuss the various portrayals on film of Wagner-biography and Wagner-performance. For 25 years, Professor Lees has been a broadcaster, writer and musicologist and presented…
The Wagner Society in New South Wales presents Fin de Siècle and Tristan with soprano Anke Höppner and pianist David Miller, in a recital of compositions influenced by Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde by Alexander Zemlinsky & Arnold Schönberg. The recital is followed by the society’s Christmas Party! Members $40, Non Members $45 www.wagner.nsw.org.au