Thanks! It redeemed the feeling in that I understand it. But his idea of culture was destructive and highly influential on future antisemites and Nazis.
Thank you for the video. You chose one of the more beautiful Wagner arias, with one of the more beautiful tenors so it places his work among the greats. Good for you! I listen to cantorial music every day. There is a beauty in it; the רגש that comes from it and hits you someplace deep in your ancient soul. Most cantors could sing Wagner but why?
Music touches us in a deeply emotional way. And when your singing (or playing, or composing) bypasses my ideology and plucks the strings of my neshama, it can create tremendous cognitive dissonance. Perhaps this is part of what you felt when your non-Jewish tenor friend sang his Hebrew part. I feel it in a different way when I hear (say) a 12-year-old violin prodigy play with the pathos of someone with a lifetime's worth of suffering. How could they possibly touch in me something they can't yet have experienced themselves?? We want music to reinforce our ideas about the world, but...You can't always get what you want...
So interesting thank you! Almost cultural appropriation, but with bloodlines. I think it redeemed Wagner a bit. for me anyway.
Thanks! It redeemed the feeling in that I understand it. But his idea of culture was destructive and highly influential on future antisemites and Nazis.
Agreed.
Thank you for the video. You chose one of the more beautiful Wagner arias, with one of the more beautiful tenors so it places his work among the greats. Good for you! I listen to cantorial music every day. There is a beauty in it; the רגש that comes from it and hits you someplace deep in your ancient soul. Most cantors could sing Wagner but why?
Music touches us in a deeply emotional way. And when your singing (or playing, or composing) bypasses my ideology and plucks the strings of my neshama, it can create tremendous cognitive dissonance. Perhaps this is part of what you felt when your non-Jewish tenor friend sang his Hebrew part. I feel it in a different way when I hear (say) a 12-year-old violin prodigy play with the pathos of someone with a lifetime's worth of suffering. How could they possibly touch in me something they can't yet have experienced themselves?? We want music to reinforce our ideas about the world, but...You can't always get what you want...