Word: lohengrinned
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...half-mile-square field naval cadets dressed & undressed a full-rigged ship (dummy). Fascist youths 50,000 strong, from 6-year-old Sons of the Wolf to 18-year-old Young Fascists, drilled to the music of 2,600 trumpets which at one point blew the Wedding March from Lohengrin. This caused irrepressible Italians to crack of the Dictators: "Are they exchanging wedding rings...
...Coronation March from "The Prophet"Meyerbeer *"Poet and Peasant," Overture Suppe *Country Gardens Grainger *Fantasia, "Cavalleria Rusticana" Mascagni *Prelude to "Lohengrin" Wagner *Marche Slave Tchaikovsky *Fantasy, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" Churchill-Bodge *"Espana" Waltzes Waldteufel March, "Stars and Stripes Forever" Sousa *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
...interpret such roles as Brunnhilde and Isolde; and it is largely to the Norwegian soprano's credit that Wagner has zoomed to the heights of favor in this country. Proof that Boston is still Wagnerian minded is demonstrated by the fact that already the seats for "Tristan," "Parsifal,"and "Lohengrin" are completely sold...
Each winter thousands of sophisticated Manhattanites throng the Metropolitan Opera House to goggle at old-fashioned Norse gods and blimp-like maidens disporting themselves in animal skins and burlap. The music-dramas of Richard Wagner, with their wilful, slow-witted heroes (Siegfried, Parsifal, Lohengrin), and their clever, conniving villains (Beck-messer, Mime, Alberich), are far & away Manhattan's favorite operas...
After such a taxing role as this any soprano has earned a rest. But next evening Flagstad went on again, as Elsa in Lohengrin, showing no trace of fatigue. The day after that, she became Isolde and sang her third major role in three days so freshly, so composedly that one would have thought it was her first...