I taught a Super Awesome Class on Wagner, the Leitmotifs of The Ring, to rather young people two years ago. fuckin loved it. it’s amazing that a place let me
desire to teach the sublime subtle amazingness that is the Composite Leitmotif of THE NEED OF THE GODS…. (composite because it is made up of several other Leitmotifs),
to REVERSE-ENGINEER everything that newbies (to Wagner) would need to even attempt to gain an understanding of WHY it is amazing, what the dramatic symbols are, what they meant in their original contexts, and how they evolved into THIS, and WHY it’s just so Moving….