Word: rienzi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lady Emily (Emy to her family) was a bright-eyed matron married to a distinguished architect (designer of New Delhi, London's Cenotaph and Liverpool Cathedral). She belonged to a famed English family: grandfather was Statesman-Novelist Bulwer-Lytton (Harold, Last of the Saxon Kings, Rienzi, The Last Days of Pompeii), and her father, first Earl of Lytton, was Viceroy of India (1876-80). There came a day in 1910 when Emy, then 36, no longer knew what to do with herself. Every male reader with an underemployed female relative will feel his heart sink at the news that...
...Wagner's grandsons rang up the curtain last week on the sixth postwar season at Bayreuth. Reason for the excitement: Wieland and Wolfgang Wagner had finally got around to applying to Die Meistersinger the same stripped-down, dramatically lighted staging in which they have redraped all but one (Rienzi) of their Grandfather Richard's works...
...pale young man stood on a hilltop under the night sky, ranting at the stars. He had just seen a performance of Wagner's Rienzi, and like that Roman tribune, vowed the young man, he would rise some day to lead his people. He would leave his mark on history...
...jubilee concert made no attempt to duplicate the first one in 1895-no modern prom audience would stand for that hodgepodge of waltzes, marches and cornet solos-but it did stick pretty close to prom tradition. There were Richard Wagner's Rienzi Overture, the first piece played at the first prom; Serenade to Music, a short choral work written by Vaughan Williams for Wood's golden jubilee as a conductor 16 years ago; Sargent's own Impression of a Windy Day, which had its prom premiere in 1921; Liszt's Hungarian Fantasia, played by Pianist Mark...
Today visitors can hunt down such varied exhibits as the stuffed carcass of "Winchester" (once called Rienzi), General Phil Sheridan's horse; the bones of "Swanky Dan," a prize bull; Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, a collection of dresses worn by former First Ladies; a collection of fleas from G.I.s in Korea. Last year, if there had been room, the Smithsonian staff could have displayed 607,354 new acquisitions, including a couple of Japanese eels, an adjustable, double-ended wrench (circa 1856), 18 boxes of bricks from the White House renovation, one astral lamp (complete with glass...