Word: tterdammerung
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From his trip to South American jungles in 1937 Bemelmans brings back a hilarious travelogue of rivers "as loud as the finale of Götterdammerung," of flora that looked "as if the florists had thrown the end of a Hutton wedding down the back-stairs," of one Captain Vigoroux, famed in cigaret ads. Two tales, one about a dachshund, another about a Nazi dissenter who invented a seventh-class funeral, are not only funny but belong with the best satire yet written on dictators. In a story about a cobbler who belied the old proverb, Bemelmans combines entertainment...
...tterdammerung is so long that it was given in an afternoon and evening session...
...freshly recreated. An oldtime Cherubini symphony had such subtle grace and elegance that it was accepted as important. Most surprising was the Saint-Saens Danse Macabre which sounded extraordinarily vital, not a measure of it hackneyed or cheaply melodramatic. After the Rhine Journey from Wagner's Götterdammerung, the audience would have stayed long to cheer. But Toscanini was through. He bowed briefly, tugged at the concert master's sleeve, his own private sign that he wants the players to leave the stage...
...tterdammerung is a turgid opera by Richard Wagner, the composer to whose music most Nordics are married and buried ("Wedding March,'' ''Death March" from Lohengrin...
...Bayreuth Wagner Festival (TIME, Aug. 4) continued. Every opera which will be presented has had by now at least one hearing. The complete Ring cycle was presented: Rheingold, Siegfried, Walküre, Götterdammerung, also Parsifal and Meistersinger. All has been carried out in strictest accordance with the traditions established under old King Ludwig's patronage in the ancient golden Wagnerian days. Not a note was "cut" from any of the enormous scores; no concessions were made to the limits of human patience on the part of the audiences. Richard Wagner used to insist on live beasts...