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The Perfect Wagnerite : A Commentary on the Ring of the Niblungs

By: George Bernard Shaw

...tablecloth. It was an ignorant demand too, because it is not true that the composers of these exceptional examples were always, or even often, able to... ... that, the new ones—to make Handel the starting point of a great school of oratorio. Bayreuth WHEN THE BAYREUTH FESTIVAL PLAYHOUSE was at last com- pl... ...and plenty of professional skill; but it does not, like the old operas and oratorios, re- quire those extraordinary vocal gifts which only a few indi-...

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