Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most humanitarians have a flair for pioneering. Conductor Damrosch brought Wagner into U. S. favor at a time when the fashion was to snicker at the German. He, first, played the greatest Symphony since Beethoven, the Tschaikowsky "Pathetique." He sponsored...
...present day, and is famed both in Europe and America. Raphael Diaz, the New York metropolitan tenor, will sing the "Astrologer's Song," from the "Coq d Or," of Rimsky-Korsakoff, and also a selection of Spanish songs. Finally, the Philharmonic will play Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony," Wagner's "Rienze Overture," and Wolf-Ferrais' "Overture to the Secret of Suzanne." Such a program, with possible additions, promises a most entertaining evening," said Miss Leginska...
...York was found the biggest surprise of the election. Senator James W. Wadsworth Jr., Republican Wet, heretofore regarded almost as much of a New York institution as Governor Smith, came down to the Bronx with a plurality of 250,000. There he met onetime Justice Robert F. Wagner, Democrat, coming up from Brooklyn and the "East Side" with a plurality of 380,000. Mr. Wagner was elected. The new Senator was once a newsboy on the lower East Side with an extraordinarily keen mind and a lust for law. His untarnished reputation on the bench and the tarnished humanity...
...would get no Sunday afternoon programs. They bestirred themselves. At the opening concert every seat was taken and a hundred extra ones tucked here and there for those who would not be turned away. They relaxed then those symphonophiles, gave rapt attention to Rimsky-Korsakoff, Thomas, Mozart, Pierne, Delibes, Wagner, capably read by Conductor Henri Verbrugghen...
Died. William Seward Webb, 75, railroad builder, (Wagner Palace Car Co., now the Pullman); at Shelburne...