#in the book the tale of lohengrin knight of the swan and the artist is willy pogany

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I am conflicted on how I feel about the situation. I listen to a lot of rap and some of the rappers are in gangs and have done many illegal things. Where I try to draw my line is when they I know they are domestically violent or harm kids in any way. I avoid these artists because I do not want them getting money and most of the time getting away with the things they have done. Even though I try to avoid corrupt artist, sometimes, I am not aware of what they have done resulting in me still listening to them. This sense of not knowing ties into the article when they say “But I wish that there would just be more awareness about Wagner’s anti-Semitic worldview” since not everyone is so firmiliar with Wagner’s association with Hitler. Also, my own concern with the artists I have listened is that giving them money for their music can cause them to get away with the things they have done and the article say “Wagner is dead. He can’t do anything anymore.” Since he is dead the concern of him getting money and creating more problems is not really relevant anymore. So, acknowledging his contribution to music is not necessarily causing any more problems. Also we have to account for the time period of which they were in so, “Wagner’s anti-Semitic statements must be seen in this context. The anti-Semitism of his era was already a widespread illness since time immemorial, even if Jews were accepted, respected, and even honored in certain circles of German society.“ Even though anti-semitism is wrong and we can not ‘imagine’ everyone being so unjust to people, it was the norm back then. Overall, I think Wagner has done a lot for music and should be studied but I also think his ties to Hitler should be well known so people new what type of person he was. 

Fry lost family to the Holocaust so he wanted to make sure that what he was doing was ‘right’. They talked about how anti-semitism was socially expectable, unlike we can imagine now, and that we do not see all sides to Wagner, but instead we only focus on how Hitler saw him. He also mentioned that even though he was a very nasty hateful person that does not mean his music was not less amazing. The music is still amazing but Fry mentions how uncomfortable he was in Nuremberg and that he sees how much Hitler has stained Wagner’s life. He stated that this ruins the music for some people. However, he did not want to surrender his music to Hitler.

I have no way to know if you watched this whole thing or not. Tell me five things you learned from it and convince me you watched it! 

I am Fry was super excited because he Wagners music “released something inside” of him that nothing else could. 

In Switzerland Wagner began to dream of something new and extraordinary and believed that the greatest art form was from great tragedy because it involved all of people like a ceremony. 

He wrote ring, a series of 4 operas, that indulged in people’s “appetite for power and hunger for love’ but it took him 40 years in order to realize his exact vision that he wanted which created.

Wagner’s operas can have multiple interpretations expressed when they showed a new staging of the ring that was inspired by the myths and legends of Gagifs (no idea how to spell this) homeland North Valsesia. 

Wagner and his son in law actually pushed Hitler forward instead of just accepting Hitler as their leader. They wanted him to lead and helped him do it.

And read the Chapter on Lohengrin in the book for class on Muesday. We will start the opera on Wednesday. pg. 105-126

It is about an archetypal myth presented as a medieval fairy tale. Basically its a typical child stories with knights in shining a helpless women and magic. However, it also had a lot of historical moments and also shows nature of love and its limits. 

I think he may have to a certain extent. Wagner was known as a mysterious guy who was very influential and revolutionary to the music world. This kind of is like Lohengrin because he was described as mysterious and like a ‘higher being’.

Overtures mostly rely on melodies from the opera itself and preludes do not. 

For killing her brother Gottfried in the woods. 

At the end of Act I, Lohengrin wins the battle, but spares Telramund’s life. He is banished, but where does he go in Act II?

He is a pagan which means a person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions 

Because she loves him 

Ortured drops dead because the swan transformed to Gottfried. Elsa dies and I am not a hundred percent sure why it was kind of confusing but because Lohengrin leaves?

Did you lol at the joke on pg. 121? tbh not really. 

I expect to see a dramatic showing of a non-typical fairy tale that is super extravagant.