Ride of the Valkyries or Flight of the Chickadee?

"He felt pretty, oh so pretty..."
Oh, darned. 

Now we will never be able to prevent the Caring Crowd from demanding that the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra play Wagner's music.  This sounds like it is taken from Mel Brooks' "The Producers", but it turns out that Hitler's favorite composer was a transvestite.  And this is NOT a Purim joke.

Adolf Hitler once said that "Whoever wants to understand National Socialistic Germany must know Wagner."  Richard Wagner was an early promoter of racialist theories about Jewish inferiority.  Wagner's opera "The Ring of Nibelung" was particularly anti-Semitic, although now we all must wonder on what Wagner must have been nibbling when he composed his Nibelung.  The Nazis found many of Wagner's rantings inspiring and lionized him. 

The Guardian in the UK has just reported that Richard Wagner was a cross dresser.  Seems the pre-nazi composer himself bragged about it. He wrote: "The bodice will have a high collar, with a lace jabot and ribbons; close-fitting sleeves; the dress trimmed with puffed flounces - of the same satin material - no basque at the front (the dress must be very wide and have a train) but a rich bustle with a bow at the back, like the one at the front) ..."  His letter about his passion for ladies' garments was revealed by a new web site, the Wagner Journal, run by an Opera buff and groupie of Wagner. 

Barry Millington, co-editor of the Wagner Journal, is cited in the Guardian as saying: "He obviously had a very pronounced feminine side," said Mr Millington. "There was this whole business with silks and satin underwear: he had to wear silk next to his skin."  Moreover, Wagner shopped for his clothes with fancy French dress designers.  Oo la la!

Now performing Wagner has long been controversial in Israel.  On the one hand, there may be as many as 300 people in Israel who actually like to listen to opera music and a few of these want the Israel Philharmonic to perform Wagner until the fat lady sings.  As Mark Twain once said, opera music is better than it sounds.  The orchestra however refuses to perform Wagner; one can occasionally hear Wagner on Israeli radio.  Zubin Mehta requested to conduct Wagner and was turned down flat.  Anti-Israel moonbat maestro Daniel Barenboim has to go to Bayreuth to conduct Wagner.  Many non-Jews are also uncomfortable with performing Wagner.   

But now that it turns out that Wagner was politically correct, that is, a transvestite in lace as well as a fruit, how on earth will we be able to stop the demands from the Moonbatocracy that he be celebrated in Israel as well?