About 100 writers, musicians, artists, composers, and others from the past and present describe moments of epiphany or times when they were moved by the music of Richard Wagner. The brief descriptions come from individuals such as Margaret Atwood, W. H. Auden, Daniel Barenboim, Willa Cather, Paul Cžanne, Pl̀cido Domingo, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Wassily Kandinsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Beverly Sills, Arturo Toscanini, and Virginia Woolf. Many are excerpts from other works. There is no index. Holman, a historian and lecturer, is the chairman of the Wagner Society of Washington D.C. He is the author of Wagner's Ring--A Listener's Companion and Concordance. Annotation 2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
