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...TRISTAN & ISOLDE: RESTORING PALA-MEDE - John Erskine - Bobbs-Merrill...
...Addict Thomas De Quincey, admits no desire to "reform." He writes: "Do not expect me to be a traitor. Naturally opium remains unique and its well-being superior to that of health. To it I owe my perfect hours." Saying that to lecture an opium addict is like telling Tristan to kill Isolde, he comes nearest to an apology when he writes: "Living is a horizontal fall. But for that fixative, a life completely and continually conscious of its speed would become intolerable. It allows the man condemned to death to sleep. . . . Opium gave me this fixative. Without opium...
...Schbnberg's awful, shrieking Die Glückliche Hand was still in their minds (TIME, April 28, 1930). But Gurrelieder proved to be neither ear-splitting nor bewildering. It began like Wagner in his tenderest mood, Wagner as tie described the forest murmurs in Siegfried, the love of Tristan and Isolde, of Siegfried and Briinnhilde...
...follow the notes with their eyes as well as their ears. The latest additions from the special fund set aside by the House for this purpose are: Beethoven, Schumann, Bach, Brahms, deFalla, Stravinsky, Debussy's "Pelleas and Melisande," Mendelssohn, Rimsky-Korsakoff, and Wagner's "Parsifal," "Die Meistersinger" and "Tristan and Isolde...
...that Wagner has popularized "a longing for a higher life, coupled with a tremendously powerful appeal to the vigor of bodily movement", to which last current society music is also dedicated. No comparison is possible between the bombastic "An American in Paris" and an opera so highly emotional as "Tristan and Isolde...