[ClearCase_guy]

Music isn’t anti-Semitic.

[LouieFisk]

f you listen to Wagner, you’re a hater! I’m triggered, dang it!!

[jimfr]

We delude ourselves if we think inspiration comes from within ourselves. The origin of inspiration comes from “in the spirit”. What influences, us influences our creation. We do not wrestle with flesh and blood but with spirits. if the spirit that influences us is good then the nature of our creation is good. If the spirit that influences us is evil then our creation is evil

[Ohioan]

Of course not. The very idea that a dead composer--a true musical genius--should be demonized because a successful Socialist demagogue, who came later, loved his music, illustrates the neurotic culture that makes Angela Merkel possible.

One does not have to be a Socialist demagogue--or the supporter of Socialist demagogues--to recognize beauty in art. You counter Socialist demagogues, who build totalitarian monolithic regimes, with reasoned argument, not by a compulsive need to demonize culture. The Socialist war is on culture & beauty, and this sort of hand-wringing is truly grist for the mill of the next Socialist tyrant.

Compulsion For Uniformity

[jimmygrace]

I LOVE Wagner operas, especially the ring epic. What I detest are people trying to selectively rewrite history and impose modern day values on historical figures. Wagner was indeed an anti-semite and white supremecist, and I’m sure he would have disapproved of gay marriage as well, but he was no different than most other people in his country or continent. He was a musical genius who is responsible for the wedding march that is probably played in 99% of American weddings.