[How Wagner Operas Bang Along] Three or four hours.

That is a long time to sit in one place, whether one be conspicuous or not, yet some of Wagner's operas bang along for six whole hours on a stretch! But the people sit there and enjoy it all, and wish it would last longer.

A German lady in Munich told me that a person could not like Wagner's music at first, but must go through the deliberate process of learning to like it--then he would have his sure reward; for when he had learned to like it he would hunger for it and never be able to get enough of it.

She said that six hours of Wagner was by no means too much.

She said that this composer had made a complete revolution in music and was burying the old masters one by one.