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Wagner knew exactly what he was doing at Bayreuth. Heard in quick succession, Das Rheingold, Die Walkure and Siegfried have a staggering cumulative effect. By the tune one settles in for the 4½-hour finale, Die Götterdämmerung, the ear reverberates with leitmotivs; and Wagner's gods, earthlings, dwarfs and dragons seem familiar, necessary, among the mind's permanent emotional reference points. One gasps at the death of Siegfried, even if he is the sort who will take a drink from anybody. One worships Brünnhilde as the lover and idealist...
Well, it is all academic, since most of the words-in any language-cannot be heard over the orchestra anyway. That seems to be more a problem of bad interpretation than anything else. At last week's Das Rheingold in Seattle, recognizable English phrases-"Help me, sister" (Freia), "Back to the mines" (Alberich), "What, yield my ring?" (Wotan) -were few and far between. But by Die Walkure, diction and audience comprehension had picked up considerably. How does the composer himself feel? Almost everyone who has ever gone on record about the matter, including Wagner, Verdi and Puccini, speaks desperately...
Among the speakers scheduled to lecture this week are Henry B. Rothblatt, former attorney for five Watergate defendants, including James McCord; Edward Swartz, author of Toys That Kill; Paul D. Rheingold and Norman Landau, authors of the Environmental Law Handbook; and, Jerry S. Cohen, co-author of America...
Before the announcement, the Federal Trade Commission had been considering bringing Pepsico to trial over possible anti-trust violations in the corporation's acquisition of Rheingold Corporation...
Nixon's connections may explain why, simultaneously with Kendall's announcement, the FTC made known an agreement with Pepsico under which the corporation agreed not to move to assume or exercise actual control of Rheingold before December 4. The possibility that Mudge Rose heavily influenced the FTC on Pepsico's behalf is probable, considering the firm's past relationship with the corporation...