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...shaped outlines of the continents on either side. A sheer 9,000 feet of height, it towers in the way of deep sea fishes scurrying from Pernambuco to Benguel. Its knobby head rises curiously above the waters in the north (Azores plateau); St. Paul, Ascension Island, and Tristan da Cunha mark its southern peaks...
...Symphony in E-flat major Mozart 1. Adagio; Allegro 2. Andante 3. Menuetto; Trio 4. Finale; Allegro Concerto in D minor Bach 1. Vivace 2. Largo 3. Finale "Tannhauser," Bacchanale Wagner "Lohengrin," Prelude to Act III Wagner "Tristan and Isolde," Prelude to Love-Death Wagner "The Valkyrie," Ride of the Valkyries Wagner "The Valkyrie," Magic Fire Music Wagner
...Jean de Reszke, Anton Seidl, of Toscanini-and Wagner was indeed a Titan. There came the War, and German singers, German music were in disfavor, but Wagner grew even in exile. His operas crept back into the repertoire one by one until Lohengrin had arrived, Tannhäuser, Tristan, Meister singer, the four Ring operas-Rheingold, Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung-and the valedictory Parsifal. Today enthusiasm has reached the pitch where box-office plenty is direct sequel to the announcement of special Wagner matinees...
...user), whose Elsa (Lohengrin) and Sieglinde (Walküre) are compelling flesh-and-blood women worthy of the music given them to sing. There is Karin Branzell, worthy successor to Schumann-Heink as Erda (Rheingold and Siegfried), Fricka (Walküre), Waltraute (Götterdämmerung), Brangaene ( Tristan), Baritone Friedrich Schorr vocally unequalled as Wolfram (Tannhäuser), Sachs (Meistersinger), Gunther (Götterdämmerung); Basso Michael Bohnen, big, commanding as King Marke (Tristan), as Hagen (Götterdämmerung); Baritone Clarence Whitehill, impressive always for the kindness, the dignity of his Amfortas (Parsifal), his Hans Sachs...
...performances were called off. The only thing that continued was the opera, and if we sought amusement that was where we had to go. I went every night, and that is when I developed the taste for my career. But it was not until I saw a performance of "Tristan and Isolde" that something absolutely changed in me and showed me my way in life. That was when 1 was 16. Since then I have folowed my present career systematically, studying in Vienna most of the time. Four years ago I joined the Chicago Opera Company, and I have been...