Word: bayreuth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nation's Desmond Shawe-Taylor wore a this-hurts-me-more-than-you look: "The grumble that events are too many and the day too crowded is merely frivolous . . . More serious is the complaint that this festival has no natural focal point, as Salzburg has in Mozart, Bayreuth in Wagner, and Aldeburgh in Britten; this is true and perhaps a pity . . . but what sort of festival could be constructed out of purely Scottish material...
...years the well-to-do resort town of Carmel, Calif, has become a kind of Bayreuth of Bach. Last week Carmel again paid its tribute to the master with a full week of his music. A good many Carmelites frankly preferred the Shriners' circus in nearby Salinas. But those who gave Bach a try got preludes and fugues on the organ, cantatas, all the Brandenburg concertos and a few works by other 18th Century composers. The big event was two performances of the great B Minor Mass. It rated a B minus for Bach -the strings were uneven...
...soprano singing in the world today. She is the first great soprano at the Met to sing Wagner and nothing but (Flagstad sang Beethoven's Fidelia). She is also the first American-born Brünnhilde and Isolde who didn't study at the Wagnerian shrine at Bayreuth. Until 1940, when she sang in Canada, Helen Traubel had never been out of the U.S. She has never crossed the Atlantic...
Adolf Hitler loved music-especially Wagner. In Mein Kampf, he had written: "My youthful enthusiasm for the Bayreuth master knew no bounds." The Third Reich, Hitler said, had its foundations in the German myths of Composer Richard Wagner, and the shrine at Wagner's Bayreuth was called "the Olympus of German art." In 1938 Hitler ordered that the military music of his favorite composer be used at all of Nürnberg's pagan rallies, and he sat for long hours at Berchtesgaden listening to recordings of Siegfried...
...Ninth and First had come up to the Elbe at several points along a 150-mile stretch fronting Berlin. The First had bypassed Leipzig. The Third's left wing was in the Chemnitz-Dresden area, and its right had captured the Wagner-festival city of Bayreuth...