Wagner’s Music in Classic Hollywood Cartoons Professor Daniel Goldmark Monday 11th September at 19.oo via Zoom Almost from the moment films were shown publicly, Wagner’s music has amplified, illustrated, and otherwise guided the audience’s experience, perhaps no more effectively and notoriously than in animated cartoons. In this presentation, Daniel Goldmark provides an overview of where… Continue reading Wagner’s Music in Classic Hollywood Cartoons
Thank you Thank you to all our speakers over the last season for enlightening us, entertaining us and surprising us. It has been a most interesting sequence of events, covering a wide range of topics. We couldn't have done it without you so please accept our heartfelt thanks. Thank you to all our members and… Continue reading Thank You
Wagner as Ecocritic : a talk by Professor Kirsten Page Monday 8th May at 19.00 via Zoom In recent years, stage directors have increasingly sought to present Wagner's Ring Cycle as what Thomas Grey has referred to as an "ecological parable." But how "green" was Wagner, really? What does it mean to make that kind of assessment?… Continue reading Wagner as Ecocritic
