Word: opera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aging Walter Damrosch and youthful John Barbirolli were drafted to conduct a concert apiece in the Fair's blimplike Hall of Music. Only really impressive bit of music up to last week was a special Wagner cycle put on not at the Fair Grounds but at the Metropolitan Opera House, and as the World's Fair entered its third week, even the Met's special cycle was playing to poor houses...
Make no mistake about it, "Dodge City" is just a horse-opera. It may have a bar-room fight which is at least fifty times bigger than those that Tom Mix used to win. It may have some beautiful Technicolor which almost succeeds in capturing the sweep of the Kansas plains. It may have Errol Flynn, whose drawing-room polish didn't come from western saddle soap. But it is still a horse-opera. It has the spirit of the old western epic, with the invincible hero who single-handed oan send packing every bad man in town, with beautiful...
...Arts in today's United States are shackled to a financial oligarchy by their dependence on private patronage. Plays must have their gag lines, books their seductions, and opera its Diamond Horseshoe, all to entice the sacred dollars out of those few well-filled pocket-books. For without those dollars, the Arts cannot live. Partly to break those shackles which link the Arts so irretrievably with private enterprise, the Administration at Washington inaugurated the Federal Arts projects. By subsidizing these projects, the Government has tried to life the Arts above the dictates and limits of a limited public and pass...
Salad and dessert were still to come. With Kirsten Flagstad, Marjorie Lawrence, Kerstin Thorborg, Eyvind Laholm and a galaxy of other top-flight singers, Conductor Goossens and his Cincinnati Symphony dished out the whole of Saint-Saens' opera, Samson et Dalila, and Act II of Wagner's Parsifal, threw in Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms and a brace of 18th-Century oratorios, and filled in the chinks with miscellaneous nuts and raisins of symphonic, operatic and choral music...
...Used as the Reichstag meeting place since 1933 when the Reichstag Building was burned (Nazis said by Communist incendiaries, others said by Nazi incendiaries). The Opera House is about to be razed to make way for an "Avenue of Splendor"; the Reichstag Building is now almost rebuilt...