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Always short of das Rheingold on his $115-a-month allowance, high-living Wolfgang ("Wummi") Wagner, 23, made up an unheroic plot. Tucked away in the family's old Villa Wahnfried in Bayreuth was an 1839 pencil sketch that Jean Auguste Ingres had made of Composer Franz Liszt, and after the great...
...classical side, the great calliopes of the big-city symphony orchestras boomed right along. One of the more intriguing events: the first performance by the Philadelphia Orchestra of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 10, reconstructed by musicologists from a sketch left by the composer at his death 51 years ago. If any major new contemporary composers made their appearance, the news...
...Dali's hitand-miss genius. But it was Dali himself who won best-of-show at a gala black-tie lecture attended by critics, socialites and an ocelot on a leash. Sporting his silver-handled cane, Dali held the audience in breathless amusement as he dashed off a sketch of a horseman to the tempo of world-renowned Guitarist Manitas de Plata and his flamen co-booted partner-while a museum aide scampered back and forth across the stage to keep Dali in drawing pens...
...away, to sketch in silver...
...premiere of Mahler's Tenth, or rather, "a performing version of a sketch," as Cooke protectively calls it, was presented this month in Philadelphia, followed by a second performance last week in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall...