Re: Trsitan: The First Hundred Years (Zuckerman)

True, but this (HMCW) is the right place to start looking for
potential buyers. I, for one, will acquire it as soon as it becomes
available.

Best of luck with your project.


"A.C. Douglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> "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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> ACD
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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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> > > "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