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A talk to the high school students of Hawthorn School for Girls in Toronto Feb 7, 2013
Today, May 22, is the 200th birthday of famed composer Richard Wagner — so his native Germany is awash in concerts, lectures and recordings to celebrate the Jubiläumsjahr (Jubilee Year). But predictably, the additional attention has stirred up an intensified version of the never-stale debate over Wagner’s authentic legacy: aesthetic prince to be honoured, or moral leper to be shunned?
Germany was once considered the pinnacle of aesthetic and philosophical sophistication, and at that pinnacle sat Richard Wagner. But after the war, Wagner (who is universally acknowledged to have been a racist and anti-Semite) retained more fame as Hitler’s muse than as a creative genius. In spite of Wagner’s acknowledged musical brilliance, post-Holocaust attendance at Wagnerian concerts came to assume the dimensions of an ethical litmus test for people of conscience.
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Barbara Kay: If you must listen to Wagner, do it in private
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