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Leonard Bernstein called Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde “the central work of all music history, the hub of the wheel”—afterwards, nothing in music and cultural history was ever the same. So what happened after Wagner? Dr. Hartwell enlarges upon his March evening on the life and work of Wagner with this fascinating lecture that examines the composer’s impact on the music of the subsequent years leading into the 20th century and up our present day.
Robert Hartwell holds a doctorate in music education from Columbia University. As professor of music at Foothill College, he specializes in welcoming the uninitiated into the world of classical music. He co-authored a three-volume series on the history of Western music, and contributed to the New Pedagogies in Higher Education series. He has served as a pre-performance lecturer for the San Francisco Opera.
