Image shows a quote from Alex Ross' book 'Wagnerism', summarizing modernism in relation to wagnerian themes.
One of the most succinct summaries of modernism I can recall reading, here in relation to #wagnerism Alex Ross writes with such grace.
Wagner as cultural force open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
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"Like Jesus and Marx, our relationship to Wagner is mediated through...all the multifold Wagnerites and Wagnerians and Wagnerists who claimed his inheritance for themselves."
I wrote about @alexrossmusic's compendious #Wagnerism for @SFC_Datebook...
