Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wagner's Life," Professor Hill, Music Building...
...Passed Senator Wagner's resolution (offered in his "maiden speech") directing the Secretary of Labor to investigate and report on unemployment...
They were the U. S. Senators appointed to investigate strike conditions in bituminous Pennsylvania under the Johnson resolution (TIME, Feb. 27)-Idaho's English-born Gooding, Montana's long-nosed Wheeler, chunky Wagner of New York (born in Germany) and Oklahoma's quiet little Pine. Senator Metcalf of Rhode Island was supposed to have been with them but he fell...
Before the time of Wagner, the use of foreign languages in grand opera had a raison d'etre in the musical quality of French and Italian; but no one would insist that the gutteral muttering of Teutonic heroes are more melodious than a reasonably good English version. There is really no reason for thinking it plebeian to enjoy understanding the words of an opera; the granting of this privilege is a type of one hundred percentism that has value...
From Boston, from Baltimore, from Rochester, from all the outlying districts of Manhattan came pilgrims last week for the opening of the Wagner Matinee Cycle at the Metropolitan Opera House. Ever since the Mad Ludwig allowed him Bayreuth, it has been the way of musical folk to take the midsummer pilgrimage to bask in the glory of Richard Wagner. In the U. S. his glory spread more slowly. At first it was the matter of importing a great new musical idea, a new school of conductors, singers. There came the day then of Lehmann, of Ternina, Fremstad, Schumann-Heink...