Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chiseling bastards!" . . . The whole industry's going slightly crazy on the idea of electricity since Leopold Stokowski brought forth the idea of an electric symphony orchestra . . . Everything from individual amplification to bands made up of all-electrical instruments is being tried. Leading the band wagon is Barry Wagner of New York, who has a great many of his ideas patented . . . Mannie Klein, star trumpet player, has his lips insured for $100,000 by Lloyd's of London--and carries around the policy to prove it . . . Glenn Miller's "In the Mood" is selling well and is a very good disc...
...Wagner Leads Another Crew...
During World War I, while Germans dropped a few bombs on London, Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House dropped Richard Wagner's operas, the Boston Symphony dropped Conductor Karl Muck, and U. S. concert artists valiantly searched their attics for Italian, French and Russian substitutes for the tunes of Beethoven and Brahms...
Last week, as World War II boomed forward from its overture to its first act, there was again a small disturbance in the orchestra pit. In the provincial English beach-resort town of Hastings, Conductor Julius Harrison of the local Municipal Orchestra announced that he would ban Wagner from the coming season's programs. Said he: "Wagnerian music is the prototype of Nazi aggression. It is heavy and militant and reminds one of Hitler...
Conductor Harrison's tentative tuning-up brought hisses from his fellows. Crackled perfect Wagnerite George Bernard Shaw (in a telegram to London's Daily Herald): "Wagner, Beethoven and all Huns were banned at the Promenades in August 1914. The result was no audiences. Henry Wood* then announced an all-Wagner program. Result: house crammed. Tell Harrison try Sibelius. Shaw." Clacked England's No. 1 woman composer, bony, cigar-smoking, fedora-hatted Dame Ethel Smythe: "I can hardly believe that Julius Harrison can be banning Wagner because of the Nazis. If art is to be affected by anything...