Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Siegfried Wagner, son of the great composer, published in Stuttgart a volume of Erinnerungen (Recollections). It is a rambling memoir, as the name implies, written by a genial, chatty man from the standpoint of one who knew the famous Richard as kind papa, and the stern Cosima as affectionate mamma...
Died. William H. Humiston, 54, probably America's leading authority on the music of Wagner and Bach, music critic for The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, following an exploratory operation which disclosed a malignant cancer...
...Monteux is a curious mixture. As conductor, he is remarkably even, polished un "temperamental;" as program maker he is proving himself brilliant but erratic. At Friday afternoon's concert he played what in most cities would be an exceptional program, including Dukas and Ravel, a bit of Wagner, a piece by John Knowles Paine, and the Brahms second concerto. Next week he purposes to present a concert almost as usual, save for one factor, and certainly as interesting, as today's was interesting. Beethoven's hackneyed, if beautiful, Egmont overture, Schumann's Symphony in D minor, than which there...
...outstanding importance was the revival of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, probably the most tuneful of all the works of Richard Wagner...
...Meistersinger is Wagner's " human " opera. In The Ring he is accused of megalomania; in Tristan of hysteric; in Parsifal of religiosity. But in Die Meistersinger his only fault is length. And that perhaps is the fault of a restless and rapid age rather than of the master...