JOURNAL – DOES IT MATTER WHERE WE LIVE? How can places we live impact our social life, work habits, relationship to nature, personality, values, etc.? Would you be a different person if you grew up in a rural area with few people around compared to a large populated city? Do our surroundings help shape the person we become? Explain. Also, have you given up someone or something to move somewhere else?
“A WAGNER MATINEE” Vocabulary: Excruciatingly Myriad Sordid Tentatively Trepidation
“A WAGNER MATINEE” By Willa Cather Read & discuss biography page 692 Read story pages Have paper ready for musical interludes – write down your thoughts & feelings with each song & consider the main character’s thoughts & feelings also
RICHARD WAGNER European composer Born in Germany 1813 Died in Italy 1883 Operas Tristan and Isolde, Ring Cycle, The Flying Dutchman, Tannhauser
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MUSICAL INTERLUDES Robert Schumann “Joyous Farmer” p Carl Maria von Weber “Euryanthe” p Giacomo Meyerbeer “Huguenots” p Richard Wagner “The Flying Dutchman” p
A WAGNER MATINEE Rameses p. 699 Monet Impressionist painting p
MUSIC INTERLUDES Wagner’s “Tannhauser” Overture p Mozart operas and Verdi melodies mentioned p. 700 Wagner’s “Tristan and Isolde” p Okonchttp:// Okonc Wagner’s “Prize Song” p Giuseppe Verdi’s “Il Trovatore” p
FINALE Wagner “Ring” p HujjNQPv2Uhttp:// HujjNQPv2U Wagner Siegfried’s funeral march p
LITERARY ANALYSIS Make Inferences p. 703 #5 Contrast Settings p. 703 #7 Make Judgments p. 703 #8 Biographical Context p. 703 #9 – Examine the IMAGERY and FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE used to describe the people and scenes of Nebraska. How might Cather’s relatives be offended by the description? Explore Metaphor: In lines , Cather compares music in the concert hall to flowing water. Identify key words and phrases in the metaphor and the qualities they convey.