Another masterpiece, this time the crowning achievement of the "Father of Modern Music," was presented at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, last week, "The greatest music in the world," said Lawrence Gilman, famed critic of the New York Tribune. He added: "And now for a while all other music will sound a little drab, a little pallid in the ears of those who heard it."
The story which Wagner used for his Tristan is a story which has woven its spell around many another artist in tone or words. Poets without number have...
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