I rather stumbled across the Kiwi blogger, From the Choirboy Motel. He’s full of things that I’m interested in, and he writes really well, but at a length that I sometimes find difficult to stay with.
Recently he’s been diving into the many hours of Wagner – not in the opera house, but at screenings of the New York Met’s Ring cycle. It’s an exciting journey for him, full of new insights, including the demolition of many received ideas about the work. It certainly brings back my own entry into Wagner’s wacky world some forty or more years ago.
Then, after several paragraphs of almost Proustian length, he shares with us “three handy hints on how to make it through”:
1. Sensible shoes
2. Chocolate raisins
3. Aisle seats
So succinct. So valuable. Wish I’d known this several decades ago.
Here’s the whole piece: http://choirboymotel.wordpress.com/2012/07/09/gotterdammerung-aka-god-damn-its-done/
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