Word: tterd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wagnerian conductor, as I love the operas of all nations." Month later, stepping into the Metropolitan's orchestra pit recently vacated by Arturo Toscanini and his bald, black-bearded co-worker Alfred Hertz, Artur Bodanzky shook his baton at four hours of Wagner's Götterdämmerung. Critics were impressed. Bodanzky stayed, became a U. S. citizen and a permanent conductor at the Metropolitan. But he got few chances to conduct anything but Wagnerian opera...
...brushing off its costumes for the opening of the opera season, 61-year-old Conductor Bodanzky died of heart disease. Willy-nilly, he left behind him a reputation as a Wagnerian conductor-one of the world's best. Under his morose, buzzardy stare, Tristans and Götterdämmerungs became not only the best produced, but the most popular operas in the Metropolitan's repertory. Behind the throne of General Manager Edward Johnson, Bodanzky was a great power in the Met, had more to say about who should sing what, and how, than anyone else...
Whoever wrote the story of Pope Pius' death (TIME, Feb. 20) has fathered a moving piece of writing. If the next Pope is seen to compromise with totalitarianism, the deathbed scene of Pius XI will indeed seem to be taken from a new Götterdämmerung ; starring the vestiges of freedom still clinging to Europe...
Arturo Toscanini (Sat. 10 p. m. NBC-Blue) conducts NBC Symphony in Ludwig van Beethoven's Eroica Symphony, Richard Wagner's Rienzi Overture, Siegfried's Death and Funeral March from Götterdämmerung...
...ring also rises daily at 7 a. m. and takes a cold shower. In case the No. 2 Nazi seems depressed, his valet finds he can always prick up General Göring by putting on the phonograph the Heroes March from Wagner's Götterdämmerung...