When the Vorspiel to Parsifal breaks upon the ear it is as if all other music were inadequate and incompleteas if a voice called from the confines of eternity, in the infinite spaces where no time is, and rolled onward to the far-off ages when time shall be no more.

[It], dithyramb; opera, operetta; oratorio; composition, movement; stave; passamezzo [It], toccata, Vorspiel [G.].

From the Vorspiel's opening measures, gaunt and hungry with despair and longing, to the last measures of the Liebestod, sublime with resignation and divinely sad with the apotheosis of adoration, this opera sounds every note of the emotion of man for woman, and woman for man.

To Cairns and Bedient there was something deep and heady to the picture, as they followed the eyes of Healyand then his yell that filled the gorges for miles: "Come down hereyou scenery-lovin' son of" That was just the vorspiel.

KLEIDER MACHEN LEUTE; musikalische Komodie in einem Vorspiel und zwei Akten (mit Benutzung von Gottfried Kellers gleichnamiger Novelle)

KLEIDER MACHEN LEUTE; musikalische Komodie in einem Vorspiel und zwei Akten (mit Benutzung von Gottfried Kellers gleichnamiger Novelle)