For the record - Feb. 8, 2010

Wagner and the Ring Festival: An article in Sunday’s Arts & Books section about the Los Angeles Opera’s Ring Festival L.A. said that UCLA’s Kenneth Reinhard’s mother is not Jewish. She is. The article also dropped the first name and identification for University of La Verne professor Alfred Clark.

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