siren-tones

Updated: January 25, 2026

He makes it his boast that while intellectuals were raging and warning men not to heed his siren-tones, the public in Germany, France, Italy, England, wherever the performance was tolerably adequate, paid no heed, but invariably met him with the warmest enthusiasm.

George Ainslie Hight - Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama