Word: cosima
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...sleepy West German city is a memorable event in the world of music. It was here that Richard Wagner, music's great megalomaniac, built an acoustically perfect theater to house his revolutionary music dramas; here that he produced the first Ring cycle in 1876; here that Wagner, his wife Cosima and his father-in-law Franz Liszt are buried; here that Wagner's grandson Wolfgang keeps alive the sacred flame. To Wagner lovers, Bayreuth is a holy place, the Ring a sacred ritual and the Festspielhaus a shrine...
Perhaps. But eccentricity often accompanies creativity, even genius. Brahms frequented prostitutes. Liszt cut a Byronic swath through the women of 19th century Europe. All three of Wagner's children by Liszt's illegitimate daughter Cosima were conceived while she was still married to her first husband. Mussorgsky was a dipsomaniac and Tchaikovsky a homosexual. All these composers were able to transcend their personal difficulties to create great art; those searching for moral paradigms had better look elsewhere...
...agreed to any formula that would take me out of the picture and give Cosima her fair share, including divorce," von Bulow said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press from the Fifth Avenue apartment. "It was turned down categorically. This is confidential information. I can't discuss it more...
Alexander von Auersperg and his sister, Annie-Laurie "Ala" von Auersperg Kneissl, Mrs. von Bulow's children by a previous marriage, have fought von Bulow's efforts to reinstate Cosima von Bulow's claim to her share of the $50 million estate left by Mrs. von Bulow's mother, the late Annie Laurie Crawford Aitken...
...Cunha Staff Writer Brown, 14-7 Yale, 12-10 Penn, 28-21 Colgate, 44-14 Bucknell, 3-0 1-3 23-8 .742 Laura Zaccaro Brown '89 Geraldine Ferraro's daughter Guest Selector Brown, 28-0 Yale, 20-17 Princeton, 20-13 Colgate, 14-5 Cornell, 17-16 Cosima Von Bulow Brown '89 Claus Von Bulow's daughter Guest Selector Brown, 20-18 Yale, 20-17 Princeton, 40-10 Columbia, 35-30 Cornell, 32-26 C. Jerry Georges Prep School Guide Editor Guest Selector Harvard, 10-0 Yale, 45-2 Penn, 3-0 Colgate...