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Word: tristans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...approaching 75th birthday he went on a final grand tour. As it had when he was 20, Paris greeted him hysterically. This time London, too, was cordial; Victoria invited him to Windsor Castle. All Europe held concerts in his honor. On his way from Luxembourg to Bayreuth to hear Tristan a honeymooning couple entered his second-class compartment, leaned gaily out of the open window. Franz Liszt caught a chill. At Bayreuth it developed into pneumonia. His last word: "Tristan!" The Princess died a year later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Byron at the Piano | 9/10/1934 | See Source »

...great shakes, did everything he could to spoil Austria's show. He refused to let Richard Strauss, one of the Salzburg Festival founders, conduct a cycle of his operas, grudgingly allowed him to sit in the audience when Clemens Krauss led Elektra. He nearly ruined a performance of Tristan by yanking German Tenor Hans Grahl out of the cast at the last moment, He saw to it that Wilhelm Furtwangler, conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, stayed away from his two scheduled Salzburg performances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Salzburg Climax | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

...turned the majority into politically-minded (usually leftwing) writers, complete with careers, creeds and clientele. Right-wing readers will find little to sympathize with in Author Cowley's narrative. They will not be amused by his account of Dada, most extreme of modern French literary cults, whose founder, Tristan Tzara, appeared at a public meeting and "read aloud a newspaper article, while an electric bell kept ringing so that nobody could hear what he said." A later meeting was delightedly reported by Dadaist Tzara: "For the first time in the history of the world, people threw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lost Generation | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

...heroic tenor.''* At first it looked like another publicity stunt. Knabe Co., purveyor of pianos to the Metropolitan Opera, offered a prize of a Baby Grand. Melchior, the Met's foremost Wagnerian tenor, announced the contest: "Many of us look to America to produce the great Tristan or Parsifal of the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tenor Hunt | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

...Germans say ein Hcldcntcnor, mean a full, powerful, wide-ranged voice capable of such dramatic roles as Tristan, Parsifal, Siegfried. Like the late great Jean de Reszke, Melchior began his career as a baritone. Novelist Hugh Walpole staked him to the study that turned him out a tenor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tenor Hunt | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

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