It may be that your attentive webmasters are back on the job, but their heads are still basking in the sun somewhere... And so we shall content ourselves with returning to a classic of the summer: the festivals. Let’s go to Bayreuth, in 1936, to see Furtwängler at work (shirt and no tie!). Never did a conductor have so much to do there in one year: the Ring, Parsifal, Lohengrin....
What is he rehearsing? Let’s say, he is rehearsing; it’s already more than enough for a 15 August.