"Wagnerism" with Alex Ross

This week I got to cross off a Sticky Notes bucket list item by
interviewing the best-selling author and critic Alex Ross. We
talked about his incredible new book Wagnerism, discussing
Wagner’s influence on just about every artist/thinker of his time
and into the future, his anti-semitism, and more. We also talked
about how people understood Wagner, and how they understand him
today. Talking to Alex Ross allowed me to understand how one
composer's music could create so much beauty, and so much
destruction.