Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rochester Philharmonic, Eugene Goossens, conductor, announced an all-Wagner concert for its first, Nov. 10. The theatre orchestra, established by George Eastman, will again be augmented by faculty members of the Eastman school, their expenses met by the Eastman Theatre Subscribers Association...
...consideration was good seats for the King and his retinue, the new structure plans to cut down the number of boxes from 54 to 35, to increase total seating capacity from 3,600 to 5,372. In oldfashioned opera houses seeing the stage was of minor importance. Since Richard Wagner introduced epic and dramatic beauties, the importance of the stage has increased. Mr. Urban's plans not only provide superior sight lines for the audience; they also include a stage mechanism of elevators, steel screens, side rostrums, of such modern ingenuity that Max Reinhardt, most inventive of stage directors...
German. Robert Ferdinand Wagner, junior U. S. Senator from New York, bosom friend of Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith, returned to the U. S., impressed by European aviation and by Mayor J. J. Walker's tour. Also, he had visited the village of Nastätten in Hesse-Nassau, Germany, where he was born...
...many thousands of dollars in the show business to fall under suspicion as a disgruntled producer turned "arty." He has staged morality plays in gay Vienna in such a way that competing bedroom farces and Parisian revues forthwith perished of box-office anemia. But he realizes (as did Richard Wagner) that there is a distinction between the commercial theatre and the art theatre. Both are forms of entertainment, but one provides the audience effortless amusement; the other demands an audience of willing imagination. Reinhardt has surrendered the masses to the movies and incorporated producers. He invites the theatrically devoted...
...sung annually with the fervor which characterizes the Passion Play of Oberammergau. Last year there was no festival at Bayreuth, because the theatre was undergoing necessary post-War repairs. This year, however, from July 19 to Aug. 20, it is being resumed under the stage direction of Siegfried Wagner .(son of the composer), the orchestral leadership of Karl Elmendorf, Karl Muck and Anton Witek. Tristan und Isolde was the first production. It will be followed by Parsifal and Der Ring des Nibelungen. Critics announced the productions were brilliant-worthy candles for the shrine...