Word: tterd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...everyone groping for non-existent superlatives. Many a conservative New Yorker pronounced it the greatest concert within memory, credited its success not only to the little Italian conductor but also to Soprano Gertrude Kappel who majestically outdid herself as Brünnhilde in the Immolation scene from Götterdümmerung...
...eerie passages in Rachmaninoff's Island of the Dead might have been lost if Anspach had not pointed them out a second ahead of time to Engineer Gilbert who by a turn of the dial gave them proper volume. The thundering climaxes in Wagner's Götterdämmerung might have overloaded the amplifiers, resulted in blasts and distortion if the flow of electrical energy had not been monitored...
...nnhilde lit his funeral pyre, the fateful ring went back to the Rhine whence it had come, Valhalla, symbol of the gods' greed, flamed in the distance-and at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House the curtain went down last Week on Richard Wagner's Goötterdäammerunmg, ended a cycle of the Nibelungen Ring operas* which New Yorkers will long remember...
...gallant mustachios have greyed in later years, lost something of the grand sweep which might have enabled him in his Wagnerian days at the Metropolitan Opera (1908-17) to sing such hirsute rôles as Wotan and Hunding (Die Walküre) and Hagen (Die Götterdämmerung) with little extra adornment. Buffalo-born, great-grandson of a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Yale graduate (1895), he studied architecture before becoming a famed singer. After leaving the Metropolitan he did Wartime Red Cross work, then taught singing for eight years. He became president of Chicago Musical...
...Josef Hofmann lay dying in his home on Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, and were able to choose music to accompany his passing, if Retired Fisticuffer James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney were similarly stricken and privileged, both men would ask to hear the surging Funeral March from Wagner's Götterdämmerung...