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March 02, 2010
Wesendonck Sutra
P. M. Doolan has left a new comment on your post "Wagner and the Tantric Orchestra":overgrownpath.com/2009/11/new-music-in-paradise-garden.html">More Buddhism from Jonathan Harvey in Wagner Dream. Then there is the connection between Wagner and the Cathars...
I only came across your blog entry today, but I had posted an article "Wagner and Buddhism, Tristan and Isolde" on my blog two days ago - what a coincidence. It might interest you to know that Wagner first played some chords of Tristan on piano in the Villa Wesendonck in Zurich (where I live) and the Villa Wesendonck today is the home to the biggest collection of Tibetan Buddhist art in all of Europe.
Header image has nothing to do with the Villa Wesendonck. I photographed the Richard Cole print against the background of the book Tibet - Life, Myth, Art by Michael Willis. Photo is (c) On An Overgrown Path 2010. Report broken links, missing images and errors to - overgrownpath at hotmail dot co dot uk
Originally from On An Overgrown Path, ReBlogged by newmusicrebloggers on Mar 2, 2010 at 05:12 PM