Ink Pen by Phil Dunlap for September 13, 2012

Half my attention is on Die Walküre on PBS right now.

and they say you can´t learn anything from comics :)

Wagner may have been a pompous, anti-Semitic creep. What he is now is dead.

You dont’t have to like an artist as a human being to appreciate his genius as an artist.

James Levine got past Wagner’s anti-Semitism enough to conduct Das Rheingold and Die Walküre.

I like Kvasir, myself.

Despite his anti-Semitic writings he actually had quite a few Jewish friends. Which complicates the idea that he himself was anti-Semitic