Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story which Wagner used for his Tristan is a story which has woven its spell around many another artist in tone or words. Poets without number have used it. It is perhaps the parent of the triangle-play; the plot is one which, if new, might cause as great a stir as that of Eugene O'Neill's All God's Chillun Got Wings (see Page 16). For Queen Isolde has been given in marriage to King Mark; yet after a sip of a magic and non-Volstead potion she falls into the arms of Knight Tristan...
Sunday afternoon in Symphony Hall, Mme Schumann-Heink will sing songs of Mozart, Liszt, Schubert, Beethoven and Wagner. To comment on Mme. Schumann-Heink's artistry would be superfluous...
From Boston came the statement that Siegfried Wagner (TIME, Jan. 28) "is unlikely to come to this city to conduct orchestra concerts." It appears that a year ago the Boston Symphony Orchestra declined to have him appear with its forces as a guest conductor. Boston holds a poor opinion of Siegfried as a director of music...
...other cities the son of the great Richard Wagner has been a disappointment. His own compositions which he has conducted have been feeble and uninteresting; and his interpretations of his father's music have been savagely criticized- The disappointment does not arise entirely from his lack of genius, but rather from his failure to present the true tradition of his sire. It was supposed that he knew how his father wanted the music presented. This expectation, however, ignored 'the fact that Siegfried was only 13 years of age when his father died...
Said Lawrence Oilman, famed critic: "Mr. Wagner is 55 years old-of medium height, plump, white-haired, clean-shaven. In profile he looks like a blend of George Washington, Chauncey M. Depew and the composer of Tristan. His general aspect is that of a lymphatic vestryman. He is almost uncannily undemonstrative. . . . He conducts with astonishing casualness. . . . His listlessness makes the conductional apathy of Richard Strauss seem epileptic by comparison...