Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, Meistersinger and Gotterdammerung...
...others he is out of place and ineffective away from Tin-Pan Alley. Certainly the Concerto, trying to be important, was unoriginal and dull. But with An American in Paris he has done better and dared to be himself in the presence of such betters as Wagner and Cesar Franck. Only Walter Damrosch seemed out of character at the concert last week. His conducting was kittenish, suggestive somehow of an old man out with a chorus girl who would like to make a whirl and does not quite know...
...program for the concert has been announced as follows: 1. Under the Double Eagle Up the Street Banjo Club Wagner Morse Up the Street Morse Banjo Club 2. Invictus Huhn The House by the Side of the Road Galesian Football Songs Vocal Club 3. Specialty Act S. W. Burbank '29 4. Liebesfrend Kerisler Narcissus Nevin Narcissus Nevin Mandolin Club 5. Specialty Act J.S.B. Archer '31 6. Gold Coast Orchestra 7. Specialty Act Robert Reinhart '29 8. Landsighting Grieg The Bells of St. Mary's Adams Vocal Club 9. Football Medley Arranged by Rice Banjo Club 10. Fair Harvard Combined Clubs
...public office. But, if his anxiety for his party is as great as he says, might he not some day be persuaded to let public office seek him? Might he not, perhaps, be persuaded to enter Congress? This could easily be effected through a resignation from one friend (Senator Wagner) and an appointment from another (Governor Roosevelt). If by some pressure or prospect this should ever come to pass, a Senator "Al" Smith of New York would without doubt furnish scenes and situations-and perhaps some legislation-remarkable in his own day, memorable for political prosperity. ¶ S. Rurok, Manhattan...
...Manhattan. Soprano Gertrude Kappel, famed for her Wagner, hurried in a taxi toward the Waldorf-Astoria where she was to sing for 1,000 clubwomen. Clubwomen waited but Singer Kappel's cab had crashed into another, she had been thrown from the seat, jounced on the floor. Thirty-five minutes later she entered the Waldorf ballroom. Bruised, she sang...