Wagner DAy
"I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the truth of the one, indivisible Art; - I believe that this Art proceeds from God, and lives within the hearts of all illumined men."
Wilhelm Richard Wagner
Wagner Day Schedule - May 27, 2023
11.00 Wagner: Artist & Sorcerer
– Apostolic Majesty
11.40 Wagner and German Mythology: Wotan as Faustian Man
– Collin Cleary & Nathan CJ Hood
12.50 Song to the Evening Star
– Connor Maxwell
– Skeptical Waves
14.00 Wagner and German Nationalism
– Rupert August, Thom & Nathan CJ Hood
15.10 The Role of Tradition in Die Meistersinger von Nuremburg
– Jonny Walker
– Jonny Walker
15.30 Schopenhauer on Music – Arthur Schopenhauer
– Skeptical Waves
16.00 Wagner: An Introduction to Leitmotif
– StrayF
16.10 Wagner and Music: Melody as Revelation
– Gifts Ungiven, Jonny Walker & Nathan CJ Hood
17.10 Wagner: Adorno, Parts 1 & 2
– StrayF
17.30 What is Wagner’s Ring Cycle? History of Der Ring das Nibelungen
– NordHugr
17.45 The Ring Cycle: Love and Power
– Alexander Jacob, Gifts Ungiven & Nathan CJ Hood
19.30 The Worldbuilder of Bayreuth: Orcus Wagner
– Philypocrite
20.00 Gesamtkuntswerk: The Total Artwork
– Panama Hat & Nathan CJ Hood
21.00 Parsifal: Redemption through Love
– Paul Krause & Nathan CJ Hood
22.15 Song to the Evening Star
– Gifts Ungiven
– Gifts Ungiven & Nathan CJ Hood
