[Leica] A big thanks to all Re. my Wagner article

[pklein at threshinc.com (Peter Klein)]

LUG:  I want to thank everyone who read my Wagner article and responded 
about it.  The LUG was a great sounding board for the article. We have 
members from all over the globe who are intelligent, articulate and 
interested in music, and know something about the creative process. And 
we all use (or have used) a German-made camera, so we have to some 
degree self-selected out those who would despise Wagner's music because 
of simplistic "guilt by association."

I read and thought about every opinion expressed.  I won't be able to 
personally answer everyone, but I want each and every one of you to know 
that I valued your contributions to the discussion.  I wanted to 
stimulate thought, and it appears I've done that.  I wanted to get 
beyond the extremes of "He was Hitler's favorite composer, so I hate his 
music" vs."Wagner was such a genius that nothing else matters."  I 
wanted to explore the gray areas between those extremes, where one can 
be fully aware of both the greatness of the music and the despicable 
bigotry the composer espoused.

A few days after the article came out, it was picked up by The Gathering 
Note, a Northwest site for classical music commentary.  So it got to a 
wider audience.
http://www.gatheringnote.org/?p=5256

Thanks again to all!
--Peter