Echoes of Living Gold

Dear friends, Wednesday and Thursday this week, the congregation in Vancouver was treated to a workshop by Rev. Daniel Hafner on Wagner's Ring Cycle, as a precursor to the stage performance, set to begin in Seattle on August 4, and continuing on the 5th, 7th and 9th. Tonight, he is doing a talk in Seattle at 7:30 p.m. Contact information is DoloresRose Dauenhauer at steinerbooks@comcast.net, or 206-524-2561, or 206-985-2059. I encourage everyone who can, to make this talk, even if you are not an opera, or classical music, fan. Not only did our "Bragi" strike a chord in our hearts, but our time with him was pure gold. How and why Wagner set about to write this cycle of operas, and then also Parsifal,is indeed a deep mystery. If one looks at the topics of his essays from 1879 to 1883, one can begin to catch a glimmer of what he was about. Consider also that the premiere for the Ring Cycle was in 1876, and the premiere for Parsifal was in 1882, and then recall the great cosmic event that happened in 1879. Rev. Hafner's lectures could rightly have been included in our conference on Living Gold last year, and it's a pity that only a small number of people were able to hear what he had to say. Do try to catch his lecture tonight. Sparky