Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week's rehearsing. Therefore, Bartók played his Rhapsody. The substitution was unfortunate. The Rhapsody is 24 years old now, the product of an immature genius. Bartók the Original began like all great composers as an imitator. First Brahms was his idol, then Liszt, then Wagner, then Richard Strauss by reason of his Zarathustra, then Liszt again. It seemed peculiarly ironic last week that the Rhapsody, fruit of the Liszt influence, should have been chosen as his introduction, for the mature Bartók has now turned his back on Liszt and his theatrics. Liszt claimed...
Robert F. Wagner, the new junior Senator from New York, to be introduced and chatted with for half an hour...
Donna Grazia Deledda, Italian authoress of Sardinian tales, received the 1927 literature award. Medical diplomas for 1926 and 1927 went respectively to Dr. Johannes Fibiger, Danish cancer expert; and to Dr. Julius Wagner von Jauregg, Viennese professor of medicine. Finally the 1927 physics award was shared by two scholarly investigators of electrophysics: Professors Arthur Holly Compton (U.S.) and Charles T. R. Wilson (Britain...
...Mightier Richard still blinded the young composers of the day, sending tunes from Tristan and Siegfried watered and warped into a thousand insignificant attempts. But Strauss even then could stand alone. He quoted, to be sure, from Rheingold but he quoted deliberately, when it suited him to have Wagner pop out of the back-ground of his libretto as the great forerunner of himself?the great Strauss. The story, as it was played, followed an old Dutch legend of a mid-summer festival with bonfires & a burgomaster's daughter & a bookish boy too long boxed up. Philadelphia critics, as well...
...doctor-professor is Julius Wagner von Jauregg, who last week received the 1927 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his malaria treatment of paresis...