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...chose that year because in 1859 Charles Darwin published his Origin of Species, Karl Marx published his Critique of Political Economy, Richard Wagner finished Tristan und Isolde. These three were the intellectual forebears of Lenin, Hitler, Mussolini. They were the intellectual forebears of nearly everybody else in the Western world too. And, says Author Barzun, "it would be hard to find in the whole history of Western civilization a corresponding trio to share the honors of a single epoch with such perfect parallelism...
...Wagner: Tristan und Isolde Love Music (All-American Youth Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski; Columbia; 6 sides; $3.50). Dr. Stokowski, a great one for tinkering, first fixed up these surging passages for Victor, with the Philadelphia Orchestra. With his youths (Class of 1940) he produces a satisfactory, briefer...
...Valses Nobles et Sentimentales" in a Columbia album. You will not find in these waltzes the fruity charm of Chopin's waltzes, or the lilt of Johann Strauss, but rather an astringent wryness that almost belies the adjectives in the title. . . Finally, there is the love music from Tristan and Isolde by Stokowski and the Youth Orchestra, on Columbia, one of the least tolerable productions this fallen master has turned out. The performance is tame, muddily recorded, and the substitution of flute, oboe, and other whatnots for the solo voices, makes the whole thing a very uninteresting item indeed...
...Wagnerian operas like Tristan und Isolde and Die Walküre got the most performances (27) because they featured Soprano Kirsten Flagstad and Tenor Lauritz Melchior, who sang respectively 20 and 23 times...
...splitting singer, he made his wife, his onetime singing pupil Blanche Victoria Pope, his stand-in vocalist in his studies. Flagstad plugged him as a conductor (TIME, Feb. 5, 1940). The San Francisco and Chicago operas hired Conductor McArthur; last year the Met unbent and let him do a Tristan in a post-season visiting performance in Boston. But not until last week did the Met let him play in its own back yard. Critics gave Edwin McArthur top marks. And this week's McArthur Tristan sold...