Jay — delightful.

And let’s not forget the Wagner family. Wolfgang Wagner, who died last year at the age of 90, was the grandson of the great composer, Richard Wagner, who was born in 1813, and the son of Siegfried Wagner, who was born in 1869.

To top it off, he was also Franz Liszt’s great-grandson. Liszt was a comparative spring chicken, having been born in 1811.

Whenever I would see Wolfgang — Herr Wagner — striding around Bayreuth, speaking his rapid-fire version of German that no one could understand, I would stop for a moment and think: This is what living history is all about.