WHETHER we admit or not the first dogma of the Wagner creed, that the individual arts have in past times reached their highest possible degree of development, and that the highest art-work of the ...

Not to mention her great-grandfather. Bayreuth founder Wagner welcomed inventive perspectives on his works, though he only lived to see the "Ring" and "Parsifal" produced at the festival. He designed ...

An ignoble racist, Richard Wagner was nonetheless a musical genius whose influence continues to expand until today In 1981, an orchestra in Israel played a musical piece by the famous composer Richard ...

A) Adolf Hitler’s favorite composer, who provided the soundtrack for the Third Reich, albeit 50 years after his death. B) Classical music’s most infamously outspoken anti-Semite. C) A willful, ...

Welcome to the Wagner Music Department! Music has played a vital role in the life of Wagner College since its founding. Today, Wagner students sing in the College Choir, play in the Concert and Jazz ...

Miami University alumna Shelbi Wagner has been making significant strides in the world of music education and performance. Wagner, who holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees with honors in Cello ...

Wagner was a famously bad pianist. Almost as bad as Berlioz who could hardly play it at all, and worked out his pieces at the guitar (which some say accounts for their sometimes wonky harmonies).

Modern digital avenues for music discovery can make it hard to remember what “underground” used to mean. Before the Internet, underground music was hard to find and often hard to even know about—and ...

Saxophonist and vocalist Max Wagner, a longtime local jazz fixture, named his latest album Gratitude for good reason. “The main thing I feel about my life in music and my experiences as a musician is ...