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THE P.O. Box 230949 Ansonia Station WAGNER SOCIETY New York, NY 10023–0949 OF NEW YORK Phone: 212/749–4561 Fax: 212/749–1542 C ATALOGUE — A M E M B E R S ERVICE B OOKS , S CORES , T RANSLATIONS , VIDEO GUIDE , A U D I O G UIDES , W AGN ERIANA The Wagner Society of New York offers an extensive catalogue of materials of special interest, with discounted prices for Society members; some are unobtainable elsewhere. (Discount is determined by publisher’s discount policy.) If a paperback edition of a title is available, it is offered here. A separate order form is enclosed so that you may retain the catalogue for future use. Reviews of new titles and additions to the catalogue appear in Wagner Notes. No Kindle editions. (This is not an online form.) If you are searching for a title not listed below, email us, and we will help you locate it. NEW: Wagner’s Ring: A Tale Told in Music by Heath Lees, 4-DVD Set. See page 3. B OOKS Special offers on many singer biographies and autobiographies: see page 2 NEW Affron, Charles. Grand Opera: The Story of the Met. List: $45.00. Members: $35.00. Bartlett, Rosamund. Wagner and Russia. List: $53.00. Members: $45.00. Chuilon, Jacques. Mattia Battistini: King of Baritones and Baritone of Kings. List: $85.00 Members: $60.00. Berger, William. Wagner without Fear. List: $15.95. Members: $13.00. NEW Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia (N. Vazsonyi, ed.). List $180.00. Members: $117.00. Deathridge, John. Beyond Good and Evil. List: $39.95. Members: $35.00. DiGaetani, John. Inside the Ring. [Essays on the Ring.] List: $49.95. Members: $43.00. DiGaetani, John. Outside the Ring. [Essays on Wagner operas other than the Ring.] List: $45.00. Members: $40.00. Furness, Raymond. Richard Wagner. List: $16.95. Members: $14.00. Grey, Thomas, ed. Richard Wagner and His World. (Bard Music Festival Series.) List: $26.95. Members: $23.00. Haymes, Edward R. Wagner’s Ring in 1848: New Translations of “The Nibelung Myth” and “Siegfried’s Death.” (Translation and commentary.) List: $65.00. Members: $45.00. Horowitz, Joseph. Moral Fire: Musical Portraits from America’s Fin de Siècle. List: $41.95. Members: $30.00 Horowitz, Joseph. Wagner Nights: An American History. List: $17.95. Members: $15.00. Karnes, Kevin C. A Kingdom Not of This World: Wagner, the Arts and Utopian Visions in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna. List: $74.00. Members: $57.00. (continued) 06/15 B OOKS (continued) Kinderman, William. Wagner’s Parsifal. List: $74.00. Members: $49.00. Kinderman,William, & Syer, Katherine R., eds. A Companion to Wagner’s Parsifal. [Essays on the text, music, reception, and interpretation.] List: $39.95. Members: $30.00. Magee, Bryan. Aspects of Wagner. List: $19.95. Members: $15.00. Magee, Bryan. The Philosophy of Schopenhauer. With appendix: “Wagner and Schopenhauer.” List: $60.00. Members: $35.00. Millington, Barry. The Sorcerer of Bayreuth. List: $39.95. Members: $30.00. Newman, Ernest. The Wagner Operas. List: $30.95. Members: $25.00. Poetic Edda. Trans. L.M. Hollander. List: $21.95. Members: $18.00. Quinn, Terry. Richard Wagner: The Lighter Side. List: $27.99. Members: $19.00. Rackham, Arthur. Color Illustrations for Wagner's Ring. List: $12.95. Members: $11.00. Rieger, Eva. Friedelind Wagner. (Biography, trans. Chris Walton.) List: $50.00. Members: $35.00. Shaw, George Bernard. The Perfect Wagnerite. List: $20.00. Members: $15.00. Sturluson, Snorri. The Prose Edda. Trans. J. Young. List: $15.00. Members: $13.00. NEW Syer, Katherine. Wagner’s Visions. List. $80.00. Members: $43.00. Vazsonyi, Nicholas, ed. Wagner’s Meistersinger: Performance, History, Representation. List: $29.95. Members: $25.00. Vazsonyi, Nicholas. Richard Wagner: Self-Promotion and the Making of a Brand. List: $35.00. Members: $25.00. Wagner, R. Opera and Drama. List: $25.00 Members: $21.00. Wagner, R. Wagner on Conducting. Trans. E. Dannreuther. List: $22.95. Members: $17.00. SINGER BIOGRAPHIES AND AUTOBIOGRAPHIES – $20.00 EACH Hotter, Hans. Memoirs (autobiography). Trans. D. Arthur. $20.00. London, Nora. George London: Of Gods and Demons (with CD). $20.00. Ludwig, Christa. In My Own Voice: Memoirs. Trans. R. Domeraski. $20.00. Melchior, Ib. Lauritz Melchior: The Golden Years in Bayreuth (with CD). $20.00. Nilsson, Birgit. La Nilsson: My Life in Opera (autobiography). Trans. D. J. Popper. $20.00. Varnay, Astrid. 55 Years in Five Acts (autobiography). $20.00. Williams, Jeannie. Jon Vickers: A Hero’s Life. $20.00. O P E R A T RANSLATIONS Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung—A Companion. Trans. S. Spencer. List: $29.95. Members: $25.00. The Ring of the Nibelung. (Trans. Andrew Porter.) List: $16.95. Members: $13.00. Das Liebesverbot. Trans. R. Arsenty. Ger.-Eng. Libretto [only available libretto]. $15.00. Opera Guides. German/English texts, with essays and photos. (Updated editions of ENO Opera Guides) Each Opera Guide — List: $29.95. Members: $20.00. To be announced when available. Der Fliegende Holländer. Now available. Parsifal. Now available. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Now available. 06/15 V I D E O G UIDE T O T H E R ING NEW Heath Lees: 4-DVD set: Wagner’s Ring: A Tale Told in Music. This set, released in 2013, reveals the workings of the Ring: its leitmotifs, relationships, and transformations, concentrating on the music of the Ring. Each DVD focuses on one of the operas, with piano illustrations, interviews with Wagner experts, and performances by opera singers. $85.00. ($8.00 S/H) A UDI O G UIDES Selected lectures are available on CD. 1-lecture CD: $15.00. 2-lecture CD: $20.00. Götterdämmerung — G. Kossodo: “The Changes from ‘Siegfrieds Tod’ to Götterdämmerung.” (Seminar, 10/88, 45 min.) with G. Kossodo: “Heroism and The Ring.” (Lecture, 4/90, 30 min.) $20.00. Götterdämmerung — J. Swann: “The Music of Götterdämmerung: Finding an Ending and Closing the Circle.” (Lecture, 5/3/12, 60 min.) $15.00. Lohengrin — G. Kossodo: “Sources of Lohengrin”; J. Pearce: “Lohengrin in Mahler’s Vienna” (rare recordings). (Seminar, 1/86, 90 min.) $20.00. Die Meistersinger — Prof. D. Harris: “Nineteenth-Century Nationalism and Its Bearing on Die Meistersinger.” (Seminar, 1/93, 40 min.) $15.00. Die Meistersinger — Prof. H. R. Vaget: “Thoughts on Beckmesser and All That.” (Seminar, 3/07, 40 min.) $15.00. Parsifal — G. Kossodo: “Wagner and the Grail”; Prof. R. Bailey: “Music, Poetry, and Drama in Parsifal.” (Seminar, 3/83, 90 min.) $20.00.. Das Rheingold — G. Kossodo: “Wagner’s Rheingold and the Myths.” (Seminar, 2/88, 60 min.) $15.00. Rienzi — R. Bailey: “Wagner, Paris, and French Grand Opera.”; E. Neher: “Justifying Rienzi – Justifying an Opera.” (Seminar, 3/92, 60 min.) $20.00.. Tannhäuser — G. Kossodo: “Comparison of Paris and Dresden Versions of Tannhäuser.” (Lecture, 2/84, 90 min.) $15.00. Tannhäuser —R. Bailey: ”The Riddle of the Tannhäuser Overture and its Solutions.” (Seminar, 12/04, 45 min.) $15.00. Tristan und Isolde — Jeffrey Swann (1): “Tristan and the Mystic Experience.” (Lecture, 10/03, 90 min., with piano illustrations.) $15.00. Tristan und Isolde — J. Swann (2): “Tristan and the Musical Language of Expectancy.” (Seminar, 12/08, 45 min., with piano illustrations.) $15.00. Tristan und Isolde — G. Kossodo: “Tristan and Schopenhauer.” (Seminar, 4/84, 60 min.) $15.00. Die Walküre — G. Kossodo: “The Concept of 19th-century Heroism.” (Seminar, 10/86, 60 min.) $15.00. Die Walküre — J. Swann: ”The Growth of Love, as Reflected in Die Walküre.” (Seminar, 5/11, 60 min.) $15.00. Edward R. Haymes. “The Two Rings (Wagner and Tolkien).” (Lecture, 1/04, 90 min.) $15.00. Schofield, Paul. “Wagner and Buddhism.” (DVD of 4/08 lecture.) $15.00. “Does Wagner’s Anti-Semitism Matter?” Professors P. L. Rose and H. Vaget; P. Bloom, moderator. (Panel discussion, 2/93, 80 min.) $15.00. Also see the WSNY YouTube channel for selected WSNYevents (complete or clips). 06/15 S CORES DOVER REPRINT SCORES - Full orchestral scores from authoritative editions. High-quality paperback. Der Fliegende Holländer. List: $34.95. Members: $32.00. Götterdämmerung. List: $38.95. Members: $36.00. Lohengrin. List: $26.95. Members: $24.00. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. List: $49.95. Members: $46.00. Parsifal. List: $44.95. Members: $42.00. Das Rheingold. List: $22.95. Members: $20.00. Siegfried. List: $29.95. Members: $27.00. Tannhäuser. List: $39.95. Members: $36.00. Tristan und Isolde. List: $44.95. Members: $42.00. Die Walküre. List: $49.95. Members: $46.00. Overtures and Preludes. List: $19.95. Members: $17.00. Siegfried Idyl & Faust Overture. List: $14.95. Members: $12.00. 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