Re: Trsitan: The First Hundred Years (Zuckerman)

"Alberich00" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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Thanks, Paul, and congratulations on finishing your Magnum Opus.

Have you thought of going the self-pub route?  That sort of book is going to be
a real tough sell in the established commercial marketplace no matter how good
it may be.

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"Alberich00" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "A.C. Douglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > "Laon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Dear ACD:
>
> I've hardly had any time at all in two years to contribute any
> comments to this site, but I'm within a few weeks of finishing my
> first draft of my entire comprehensive study of the "Ring", conceptual
> and motival (thanks in large part to Allen Dunning's collaboration
> with me), and I do recall reading a quote of Verdi's (no idea where),
> in which he said something like: All other operas known to me are to
> one degree or another beautiful, etc., but "Tristan" alone fills me
> with dread and awe. This is an extremely loose paraphrase, but that
> was the general tone of his remark. No idea where or when I read it.
> Of course Gutman records Verdi's remark, to Ricordi, at Wagner's
> death, that Wagner had made a great mark on the history of opera, and
> then reconsidered and wrote instead "Very great", Potentissima, or
> something like that.
>
> Anyway, thought you'd be amused to hear also that my "Ring" study of
> thirty some years is nearly done. It will be when complete about 850
> single spaced pages long, and takes into account not only the entire
> text of the "Ring", line by line, but also the entirety of Wagner's
> own writings and recorded remarks which are of either direct or
> indirect relevance to grasping what he was about in the "Ring", and
> also the entirety of Feuerbach's relevant writings. It is also, thanks
> to Allen Dunning's comprehensive work with me to figure out each
> separate appearance of every single identifiable musical motive within
> the poetic text (as found in the orchestral score, in which my
> contribution is mimimal, Allen's maximal), I believe the most
> comprehensive effort ever undertaken to relate the motifs to the
> development of the plot from a conceptual standpoint. This coming
> year, opportunity and time permitting (I'm 14k in debt and have to
> find work before doom's day), I'm going to devote to PR work on
> getting it published, giving talks on it, writing articles based on
> it, reducing it to a marketable form, etc. Anyway, just reporting in.
>
>
> Paul alias Alberich00
> >
> > Many thanks, Laon.  Good of you to take the time.
> >
> > It's really bugging me now.  I know I read it somewhere, but now that you've
> > confirmed that that encyclopedic work makes no mention of  Verdi owning a
> > _Tristan_ score, I wonder how much that other reference, that we both seem
to
> > have read which does make note of it, can be trusted.  The only saving thing
is
> > that the Budden is not, strictly speaking, a biography, and therefore may
not
> > have deemed such mention pertinent (yes, I know that's a stretch)..
> >
> > Tantalizing -- and frustrating.
> >
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> > ACD
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> > "Laon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > I've looked up each reference to _Tristan_ in Julian Budden's
> > > three-volume _The Operas of Verdi_. There's no reference to Verdi
> > > having the _Tristan_ score.
> > >
> > > The idea that Verdi had a _Tristan_ score does ring a faint bell, but
> > > I can't remember where I might have read it. Anyway, for what it's
> > > worth, you can rule out Budden's _The Operas of Verdi_ as well.
> > >
> > > Good luck!
> > >
> > >
> > > Laon