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Reading Opera between the Lines: Orchestral Interludes and Cultural Meaning from Wagner to Berg.

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Publication Date: 01-SEP-03 		Format: Online - approximately 1003 words
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Full Article Title: Reading Opera between the Lines: Orchestral Interludes and Cultural Meaning from Wagner to Berg.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
By Christopher Morris. (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism.) New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. [xi, 219 p. ISBN 0-521-80738-7. $60.00.] Music examples, bibliography, index.

Who can forget his or her first experience of Bayreuth? Hearing the incomparable Hildegard Behrens on a hot July day almost twenty years ago at a Generalprobe for Siegfried remains etched in my memory (that and Wolfgang Wagner rising to berate angrily an insensitive audience for sniggering at a clearly indisposed Manfred Jung!). In this latest addition to the Cambridge University Press series New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism, Christopher Morris considers the influence of the Bayreuth experience and the seduction of the audience into what is practically a "total immersion of the senses, leaving the spectator bereft of any normal resistance" (pp. 161-62). Mixing traditional analytical tools with a broad sweep across much critical discourse, Morris probes deep into the particular...

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