Word: lohengrins
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Waltzes & Blushes. After dinner the President and First Lady led their guests to the East Room, to the dum-dum-de-dum strains of the wedding march from Lohengrin. There was a short string concert by members of the Air Force Symphony Orchestra, and then Ike helped pass around the West Point song books. For two hours the Class of 1915 sang the old songs, with assistance from the orchestra...
...lipped Trumpeter Louis ("Satch-mo") Armstrong, who correctly named six out of seven melodies on a TV quiz show (his flub: the prelude to Act III of Lohengrin), happily sent his $800 prize to his old alma mater, New Orleans' Milne Municipal Home for Boys, where Satchmo was sent at 13 after he prankishly fired a pistol at the moon to celebrate New Year...
Paris has long been rather bored with opera. Since shortly before World War I, only a few real enthusiasts have been turning up to see the Lohengrin?, and the Pagliaccis sung against dusty backgrounds; the 2,300-seat Paris Opera House has been half empty even on gala ballet nights. But two years ago the management signed a new director, Maurice Lehmann, a man with the outsized imagination of a Cecil B. de Mille; since then, things have been looking...
...season 1954 shows few signs of a real Wagner boom, either in the U.S. or abroad. The favorite operas, Lohengrin, Tannhduser and Tristan are lucky to get three or four performances a month at La Scala, Paris and London. The 13-hour Ring cycle (Rheingold, Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung) is all but impossible to mount in small theaters, gets its chief performances nowadays at the Wagner shrine in Bayreuth. Like many German opera houses, the Vienna Staatsoper was bombed out, will not attempt the Ring cycle until rebuilding is completed in 1956. Covent Garden's policy: no Ring until another...
...between 30 and 34 (this would cover few of Schubert's songs, since he died at 31; it includes Beethoven's Eroica, but not his Ninth). Chamber music and grand opera written between 35 and 39 have achieved the greatest fame. Wagner wrote Tannhäuser and Lohengrin in his 30s, and by 40 was working on The Ring. Verdi was a clear exception. He churned out 25 operas by the time he was 58, then went into semiretirement. Meanwhile, Wagner's fame soared. At 74 Verdi began again, and in six years wrote Falstaff and Otello...