Word: nibelungelied
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ABBADO HAS A WEAKNESS for airy tunes played on glockenspiel and celesta. The tunes come and go between martial rhythms. Young Gustav, fascinated by the military, could never quite part with his recollections of parading soldiers. The march was to Mahler what the Ring of the Nibelung was to Wagner...
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...
Briefly, it tells of three dead people whose souls are given three days to decide where they would like to go, Valhalla, Erehwon, or Xanadu, all substitutes for censored sections of the Afterworld. There are two subplots: a search for the Ring of Nibelung and a fix of the Hoop Race in Valhalla, not to mention a takeof on the Cocktail Party and what seemed to be an allusion to F. Scott Fitxgerald. Let it suffice to say it was confusing...