Word: fausts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wagner: A Wagner Program (NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 8 sides). The selections are the familiar Siegfried Idyll, Faust Overture, Ride of the Valkyries. Performance: excellent...
Immediate adoption of such a revolutionary, almost heretical doctrine cannot be hoped for. But to anyone who has seen such moving and beautiful scenes as the prologue to "Faust" performed with original spoken dialogues once lost and wonderfully smooth staging--all of the research and direction by a student--the old way is apparently outmoded...
Hermanns compared the present German mind to two drawers, one of which contains the Bible, Faust, Shakespeare's plays and a general knowledge of literature, while the other contains Mein Kampf, the works of Bismark and Frederick the Great, and the legends of the Teutonic Knights. In moments of crisis the German, Hermmans continued, discards the first drawer as "foreign thought values" and turns to the drawer which glorifies...
...bafflingly mixed that he could reach the hearts and minds of millions as a poet* and yet, as government official, callously confirm the death sentence of a child-mother convicted of infanticide. "I am not the first," says Mann, "to find [this] almost as shattering as the whole of Faust...
...Goethe] makes things easy for himself," Author Mann once heard a "benighted" German say during a performance of Faust: "he just strings quotations together...