Short Story of the Week
A Wagner Matinée, Willa Cather (1904)
Each week, I’m selecting a short story to share with you. No more than 15 or so pages, each think of them as bite-sized entrées into a genre, author, or style.
This week, I went to see the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra play, so I decided on a slightly musical-themed short story. In A Wagner Matinée, a man in Boston takes his Aunt Georgiana , who gave up a cultured life for years of hard farm work in Nebraska, to a concert of Wagner’s music. As the music unfolds, long-buried emotions rise to the surface. Enjoy!