From: "John Beamish" 

I'm not particularly fond of him either though, in my case, it's the music
(my comment said "some exquisite music").  Valerie enjoys Wagner
and, I suspect, so does Alan but I'll let him speak for himself.


"Phil Payne"  wrote in message
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> > General thrust:  the man is dead and no civilized person supports his
views
> > today; the music lives and continues to enthrall listeners.  Just
because
> > there is one reason to loathe a man does not mean one has to loathe
> > everything about the man.
>
> I just can't listen to Wagner, as good as he is.  Every note reminds me he
> was Hitler's favourite composer.  I just get this mental image of the dear
> benevolent Fhrer tapping his feet and smiling while who knows what
horrors
> were being perpetrated in forests thousands of kilometres away.
>
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