In a letter he (Hans Richter) wrote me shortly after he had conducted The Ring at Covent Garden in 1903, he says : [...] " For me the finest and most delightful thing was the Public ; what a solemn stillness during the acts, and what enthusiasm afterwards ! To experience what honouring Wagner means one must really go abroad. The pupils of the Berlin Music-school are still warned against attending performances of Wagner's works ; even in the time of the worst misjudgments of Berlioz, no Professor or Director of the Paris Conservatoire would have dared to warn the pupils against going to Berlioz performances ; but in Germany it is still possible twenty years after the Master's death to hear disparaging remarks about Richard Wagner. I am happy that I have seen the last of this unhappy state of things, and these last performances have made me really feel how right it was to seek, and, if I may add, to find my Home in England." << less