The Good Friday music from Parsifal

[Chaszz]

Can one recover from this? Is there anything as beautiful? Is life anywhere else as moving as this simple ten minutes of sublimity? Is there any relief from its quiet but overwhelming power? This music which controls not only the poor listener's waking life life but also his sleep?......Does the word 'art' even begin to suggest the power of this?... Is there a doctor who can cure this deep affliction?.......

[Peter]

Do you really want to be cured Chaszz?

[Sorrano]

Can one recover from this? Is there anything as beautiful? Is life anywhere else as moving as this simple ten minutes of sublimity? Is there any relief from its quiet but overwhelming power? This music which controls not only the poor listener's waking life life but also his sleep?......Does the word 'art' even begin to suggest the power of this?... Is there a doctor who can cure this deep affliction?.......

The prelude is among my favorites of all of Wagner's music, but I do agree with you wholeheartedly. It is very powerful, indeed!

[Chaszz]

Do you really want to be cured Chaszz?

Not exactly, but I would like to get it out of my head. No other music so far has worked. Perhaps I should go to a lumber yard and listen to a buzz-saw...as mentioned, I even had a dream the other night where I socialized with the composer.

[Peter]

Not exactly, but I would like to get it out of my head. No other music so far has worked. Perhaps I should go to a lumber yard and listen to a buzz-saw...as mentioned, I even had a dream the other night where I socialized with the composer.

Hmm, I can't imagine that being much fun! I have to admit despite some wonderful music, Wagner was not a man I'd like to have met. Haydn on the other hand would have been charm personified!

[Chaszz]

Hmm, I can't imagine that being much fun! I have to admit despite some wonderful music, Wagner was not a man I'd like to have met. Haydn on the other hand would have been charm personified!

Reading of Nietzsche's early visits with Wagner, I cannot help feeling there must have been some wonderful times during the dinners and walks. Wagner was a fine host if one did not disagree with him, which the young philosopher, in thrall, did not do. Later of course things changed.

However, in my dream, after some good conversation, Wagner had an egotistic fit over some comment a critic had made about his running out of creativity, nearly foamed at the mouth, and had to be restrained physically... Perhaps that was merely a symbol of myself addicted to the Good Friday music.

[Peter]

However, in my dream, after some good conversation, Wagner had an egotistic fit over some comment a critic had made about his running out of creativity, nearly foamed at the mouth, and had to be restrained physically... Perhaps that was merely a symbol of myself addicted to the Good Friday music.

Yes I suspect the 'conversation' would have been a one sided affair!

[Chaszz]

Update: I started this thread on Feb. 1. It is now March 11 and the Good Friday music from Parsifal is still running through my head all day long every day.

A week and a half ago I saw the new production of Parsifal live at the Met (a very fine production, by the way). I thought it was nice that anticipation had had me humming the Good Friday music in my head for a month, and for some reason I expected that seeing and hearing the opera would put an end to the head music. This was not to be.

I tuned to Beethoven's late quartets lately for help. Though thoroughly enjoying them, they do not displace the other in my head.

[Sorrano]

Maybe some Bruckner Scherzo's can help?

[Peter]

Update: I started this thread on Feb. 1. It is now March 11 and the Good Friday music from Parsifal is still running through my head all day long every day.

A week and a half ago I saw the new production of Parsifal live at the Met (a very fine production, by the way). I thought it was nice that anticipation had had me humming the Good Friday music in my head for a month, and for some reason I expected that seeing and hearing the opera would put an end to the head music. This was not to be.

I tuned to Beethoven's late quartets lately for help. Though thoroughly enjoying them, they do not displace the other in my head.

You'll have to wait till after Easter Chaszz to be free!

[Chaszz]

You'll have to wait till after Easter Chaszz to be free!

Somehow, without advance notice, the syndrome has ended and I am free.

This is doubtless the longest any single piece of music has circled in my brain!