Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newest and perhaps greatest musical notability who will visit the U. S. during the present season will be Siegfried Wagner, son of the great Richard. He comes on a concert tour. The proceeds will be devoted to the rehabilitation of Baireuth* Wagnerian Festivals devoted to the ceremonious and supposedly ideal performance of his father's works. A great deal of legendary glory surrounds Siegfried. He is, to begin with, the offspring of a famed romance. Richard Wagner, then entering the full flame of his success, broke with his first wife, Minna, who had shared the bitter bread...
...program is as follows: Overture to the Flying Dutchman Wagner Symphony for Orchestra and Piano-forte on a French Mountain Air op. 25 D'Indy Symphonic Poem, "Ultava", from "Ma'Ulast", No. 2 Smeiana Two Nocturnes: (a) "Clouds" Debussy (b) "Festivals" Debussy "Tasso: Lamento e Trionfo", Symphonic Poem No. 2 Blast
...occupy the Opera House for two weeks from January 28. Their repertory, entirely minus Mascagni, Leoncavallo, and Puccini, is as follows: The First Week Monday--L'Africana Meyerbeer Tuesday--Louise Charpentier with Miss Garden Wednesday Matinee--Snow-Maiden Rimaky-Korsakow Wednesday Evening--The Barber of Seville Rossini Thursday--Siegfried Wagner Friday--Carmen Bizet With Miss Garden Saturday Matinee--Boris Godunow Moussorgsky With Mr. Chaliapin Saturday Evening--Faust Gounod The Second Week Monday--Mefistofele Boito With Mr. Chaliapin Tuesday--Snow-Maiden Rimsky-Korsakow Wednesday Matinee--Traviata Verdi Wednesday Evening--Carmen Bizet With Miss Garden Thursday--Boris Godonow Moussorgsky With Mr. Chaliapin...
...Ziegfeld Wagner, son of the Great Richard, was the author of a new opera presented last week at Rostock, The Blacksmith of Marienburg. The audience was not thrilled. "A mediocre son of a famed father," sighed the critics...
There are accounts of youthful visits with his father to Italy, of the personality of Liszt, of encounters with the great of all varieties. There is an interesting account of the first time he heard his mother play-for during Wagner's lifetime she was so devoted to her husband that she neglected the piano...