People Who Do Not Like Wagner
(1) John Eliot Gardiner said the following to the Gramophone:![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicHFYVIuzB-_cWs8pkmJd4Fjyqmw3fnUrv_lNloFLKYVe9Xz8WHZpsHibHgiM2eIoKG05ladc7L-LVYOpwaOqoLpZkuTrP9lxkZjGPPXU_cfsJQexHxLeNlY1jKJ6i8Hxsk85dPoVhLEIa/s400/wagner.jpg)
"I really loathe Wagner—everything he stands for—and I don't even like his music very much." Pressed on why, and why he won't perform it: "It's like you have a palate that you've developed over the years to distinguish between the best Burgundy and Côtes-du-Rhône—then you're suddenly given this appalling Spätlese that's actually got a fair dose of paraffin in it as well, and sheep drench—I think your palate would be ruined. That's my fear."
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(2) Arthur Szyk, Jewish caricaturist of the fascist era, drew this deafeningly furious picture of Wagner as proto-Nazi (click to enlarge, slightly), and it makes Gardiner sound like Herbert von Karajan. Read more about Szyk in this Times review.
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