Willa Cather(TM)s A Wagner Matinee: Link Between Music and the Musician
Lekha Ravichandran IB English 11 9/21/08 Period 0 Willa Cather’s “A Wagner Matinee”: The Link between Music and the Musician "A Wagner Matinee" by Willa Cather is centered on the important role that art plays in the development of this story. Music is symbolic of the life that Clark's aunt, Georgiana, left behind in her past when she was once an accomplished pianist. The fact that “she seemed not to realize that she was in the city where she had spent her