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 694-702

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

NEBRASKA VS. BOSTON 1900

MUSICAL INTERLUDES

Robert Schumann “Joyous Farmer” p. 697 http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKmpQjjQOBA

Carl Maria von Weber “Euryanthe” p. 698 http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aLHQwXIxGM

Giacomo Meyerbeer “Huguenots” p. 698 http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6D4Inc031Y

Richard Wagner “The Flying Dutchman” p. 698

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GohmtsWhmoE

A WAGNER MATINEERameses p. 699 Monet Impressionist painting p. 699

http://travel.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474979097957

MUSIC INTERLUDESWagner’s “Tannhauser” Overture p. 699 http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTM7E4-DN0o

Mozart operas and Verdi melodies mentioned p. 700

Wagner’s “Tristan and Isolde” p. 700 http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF4zN-Okonc

Wagner’s “Prize Song” p. 700 http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_BNFHbNm6Y

Giuseppe Verdi’s “Il Trovatore” p. 702 http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7tewlEED6g

FINALE

Wagner “Ring” p. 702

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HujjNQPv2U

Wagner Siegfried’s funeral march p. 702 http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uka8ykFDw2U

LITERARY ANALYSISMake 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 223-227, Cather compares

music in the concert hall to flowing water. Identify key

words and phrases in the metaphor and the qualities they

convey.