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Said Lawrence Oilman, famed critic: "Mr. Wagner is 55 years old-of medium height, plump, white-haired, clean-shaven. In profile he looks like a blend of George Washington, Chauncey M. Depew and the composer of Tristan. His general aspect is that of a lymphatic vestryman. He is almost uncannily undemonstrative. . . . He conducts with astonishing casualness. . . . His listlessness makes the conductional apathy of Richard Strauss seem epileptic by comparison...
...blend of George Washington, Chauncey M. Depew and the composer of Tristan...
...Meistersinger is Wagner's " human " opera. In The Ring he is accused of megalomania; in Tristan of hysteric; in Parsifal of religiosity. But in Die Meistersinger his only fault is length. And that perhaps is the fault of a restless and rapid age rather than of the master...
...purely orchestral portion of the program traversed Tschaikowsky's Pathetique Symphony and the Prelude and Liebestod from "Tristan and Isolde"; the assisting artists were Mme. Antoinette Szumowska, who played the Second Chopin Concerto, and Mr. Joseph Schwarz who sang arias from Haendel's "Israel in Egypt" and Verdi's "Ballo in Masshera" and "Wotan's Abschied" from "Die Walkuere...
...program of the regular "Pops" concert at 8.15 o'clock tonight in Symphony Hall follows: 1.Overture to "La Forza del Destino" Verdi 2. Waltz, "Joyous Vienna" Komzak 3. Meditation from "Thais" Massenet 4. Fantasia, "L'Africaine" Meyerbeer 5. First Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt 6. Prelude to Act III. "Tristan and Isolde" Wagner (English Horn Solo, Louis Speyer) 7. Phantoms Chaloff 8. Hymn to the Sun, from "Iris" Mascagni 9. Fantasia. "Lucia di Lammermoor" Donizetti 10. Minuet Bolzoni 11. Invitation to the Dance Weber-Berlioz