Slides accompanying my Talk on Richard Wagner which you can hear on SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/yolanthe-smit/richard-wagner-in-seven. Please let me know what you think. Also let me know if I have inadvertently violated any copyrights.

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2. Richard Wagner
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3. Die Walküre
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4. 1500 words
78 pictures
27 sound fragments
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6. Yolanthe, what does Wagner
mean to you?
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10. Too much
information!

11. NONO
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12. Wagner in velvet
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13. 13
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15. Music is an integral part of
the drama
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16. Chronically in debt
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17. Always on the run
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18. Hitler
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19. The Third Reich
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20. Stains on the sidewalk
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21. Bayreuther Festspiele
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22. Bayreuther Festspielhaus
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23. King Ludwig II
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24. Tickets???

25. The Ring
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26. Creation
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27. Destruction
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28. Love
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29. Death
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30. Lust
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31. Greed
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32. Evil
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33. Incest
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34. Transformation
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35. Redemption
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36. Gods
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37. Goddesses
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38. Maidens
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39. Monsters
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40. Dwarfes
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41. What does Wagner mean to me?
?
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43. Surrender to the music
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44. Richard Wagner 1813-1883
Feel the power of sound!!
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