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...newest and perhaps greatest musical notability who will visit the U. S. during the present season will be Siegfried Wagner, son of the great Richard. He comes on a concert tour. The proceeds will be devoted to the rehabilitation of Baireuth* Wagnerian Festivals devoted to the ceremonious and supposedly ideal performance of his father's works. A great deal of legendary glory surrounds Siegfried. He is, to begin with, the offspring of a famed romance. Richard Wagner, then entering the full flame of his success, broke with his first wife, Minna, who had shared the bitter bread...
Wagner died in Venice, and there ensued that fantastic nocturnal carrying of his body by Italian enthusiasts. After his death, the Baireuth Festivals continued and pilgrims from all over the world flocked to them yearly. Their purpose was to perform the Wagnerian works with the utmost perfection, and in complete accordance with the usages that Wagner had laid down with great detail. Whether in the later years of their flourishing they were the best Wagnerian performances in the world may be greatly doubted...
...Cosima Wagner and her son have devoted themselves to the restoration of the Baireuth Festivals, and that is why Siegfried Wagner is coming to America. He will be welcomed and aided by a committee of notables, such men as Otto H. Kahn and Clarence H. Mackay. His tour will be pushed energetically. He was to have conducted a performance of his own opera, Der Barenhauter, with the Wagnerian Opera Company, but the bankruptcy of the company has canceled this. He is scheduled to conduct programs with the principal orchestras in the country- in New York, Chicago, Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Baltimore...
...Baireuth is a town of Bavaria where Wagner conducted many of his own operas. Both Wagner and Liszt are buried there...
...cast of the play is as follows: Friedrich Wilhelm I, A. Kuttner 1G. Die Koenigin, Miss E. Muensterberg Prinzessin Wilhelmine, Miss K. Tyng Der Erbprinz von Baireuth, Dr. R. Drechsler General von Grumbkow, W. Roth 1G. Graf Schwerin, C. O. Mueller '11 Graf Wartensleben, F. Wellmann '11 Graf Seckendorf, R. Lempp Gr.Dy. Ritter Hotham, E. Eiserhardt 1G. Frau von Viereck, Miss M. T. Jackson Frau von Holzendorf, Miss A. Bourke Fraulein von Sonnsfeld, Miss A. Monossowitch Eversmann, J. Loewenberg 1G. Kamke, A. Vonnegut '10 Eckhof, E. F. Hanfstaengl...