Word: nibelung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Book reviews of the Sears, Roebuck 1897 catalogue, results of a Japanese pingpong tournament and 16 thundering hours of Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung are not normal radio pro gramming. But then, California's non profit Pacifica Foundation, which operates FM radio stations in three...
...sort of work that Powell's colleague, Gunther Schuller, praises for "its fine, subtle detail-like Japanese calligraphy-which finally works up into a large, successful structure." Typically, Powell goes Schuller one better. One brief set of the pieces, he says, "can sound like The Ring of the Nibelung and can seem to last four days...
...writes all her own material, and the people who are attracted to it now are very often serious musicians. Pale cellists and fat sopranos sit in her audiences and variously twang and chortle. In London recently, after a performance in which she parodied the Ring of the Nibelung, the massed Valkyries of Covent Garden went round back stage and presented her with a bust of Wagner...