Featured Past Post #81 (Administrative Note)

It's that Wagner time of year again (the 2009 Bayreuther Festspiele opens 25 July with a revival of the 2005 Peter Schneider production of Tristan), and so, as we do each year at this time, we've put up on our right sidebar as our Featured Past Post our April 2005 post, Elegy, the content of which is even more valid today than when we first wrote it. The state of affairs it outlines is bleak, but, sadly, an honest — and accurate — assessment nevertheless.