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Why is it that when I wanted to re-listen to the Distler-Preston interview (caught portions of it last night - what was the Keith Jarrett piece played?), I instead get the link to the Bill Viola interview? (I also checked the Viola link- that is correct).
Please rectify.
many thanks.

[Editor's note: thanks for bringing it to our attention; we've fixed the link. You can find the playlist for this segment at http://www.wnyc.org/music/playlists/2007/05/01 - just scroll down to the "Wagner's Legacy" section of the page.]

Love that Distler guy! What a find!

Tristan has never seemed so alive. In fact, niether has Jed!

All the best from the left coast,

Ben

This track by Montage called "She's Alone" i believe to be heavily influenced by the Tristan Chord. It's a great representation of the longing you described.

Bernard Herrmann's music to Vertigo is even more evocative of T&I ... unresolved sequence throughout, but especially the music for the scene in which Jimmy Stewart reunites with Kim Novak made up as Maddie (buildup and climax, musically). So please play it!

Excellent show. Getting back to really intelligent programming like New Old and Unexpected!

Kudos for singling out the last movement of Mahler's 9th as touched by Tristan's fingerprints. Alas, would that you had chosen some of the monumental performances of this work by Solti, Bernstein, for all his mannered approach, Karajan and even the remarkable Boulez Chicago performance instead of using the Royal Liverpool (!) when you have at hand the strings of the Vienna, the Berlin, the Chicago!!

Thanks for your wonderful presentation of my favorite opera. I've been thrilled with it ever since I first came to NY (1941 and stood -in the back for $1.) at the old opera house. T. & I. is just one super-thrill after another.

Albert

(Musician: Juilliard, National Symphony Orchestra, Wash. D.C., Ballet Russe and so forth, now retired.)