The revelation didn't come immediately - nothing in Wagner comes immediately - though it didn't take long for the music to start having its effect. I'd forgotten how gentle the score to Wagner's final ...

Wagner's "Parsifal" has never been an easy assignment. It radiates complexity, ambiguity, immense musical challenges. And in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, political baggage. Wisely, Seattle ...

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