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John Swartz will present "The Revolutionaries, Beethoven and Wagner and the Staging of Tristan. "

Wagner contrasts Haydn and Mozart with Beethoven claiming Beethoven alone takes music from the beautiful to the sublime. Wagner confers sainthood on him, after saying, "while making unrivalledly individual use of all the material which his glorious forerunners had toilsomely recovered from the influence of this mode, he restored to Melody it's everlasting type, to Music her immortal soul." It is rare that revolutionaries are so honored. Beethoven's independence, his genius and his major contributions to music, are marks of Wagner's greatness also, although he has no one to confer sainthood on him. However, Wagner's many contributions to music, and his "Gesamptkunstwerk" focus in opera are not often reflected in the many productions of his works over three different periods after his death in 1873. And Tristan and Isolde has a historical visual legacy through which you can judge fidelity or infidelity to one aspect of the artist's tradition.

	John Swartz

John Swartz will present "The Revolutionaries, Beethoven and Wagner and the Staging of Tristan. " Wagner contrasts Haydn and Mozart with Beethoven claiming Beethoven alone takes music from the beautiful to the sublime. Wagner confers sainthood on him, after saying, "while making unrivalledly individual use of all the material which his glorious forerunners had toilsomely recovered from the influence of this mode, he restored to Melody it's everlasting type, to Music her immortal soul." It is rare that revolutionaries are so honored. Beethoven's independence, his genius and his major contributions to music, are marks of Wagner's greatness also, although he has no one to confer sainthood on him. However, Wagner's many contributions to music, and his "Gesamptkunstwerk" focus in opera are not often reflected in the many productions of his works over three different periods after his death in 1873. And Tristan and Isolde has a historical visual legacy through which you can judge fidelity or infidelity to one aspect of the artist's tradition.		$100.00 patrons may bring a guest. Non members will be charged $15.00
		John Swartz is a professor Emeritus of Sam Houston State University. He also served as technology consultant to the Art and Music Departments of the University of Minnesota and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has published several books, the latest of which is the Teacher as Aladdin which includes a CD for teachers with classes on Debussy, and the uses of sound. He has published several articles including Is the RCA Dog Real, and is he a Woofer, and does he byte, and does his byte make you real? and Beethoven's a Dog; Raphael's a Ninja Turtle; Should Rembrandt be a CD? He received his Ph.D. from the Ohio State University in 1978.


This session will take place at the Canton Museum of Art Library on Saturday,March 28, 2009 at 2:00 P.M.