Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation is gratified that such an important issue has been so amicably settled by peaceful and democratic methods, under the provisions of the Wagner...
...Entrance of the Guests into theWartburg" from "Tannhauser" Wagner *"The Royal Fireworks," Suite Handel *"Dance Macabre," Symphonic Poem Saint-Saens *"Slavonic Dance No. 6 in A-flat major Dvorak *"Bolero" Ravel SARITA Spanish Dancer Bulerias F. Moscoso Farruca R. Romero Sanjuanito R. Romero Granada A. Ross "Cracked Ice," Rhapsody Peggy Stuart (Orchestrated by Ferde Grofe) The Composer at the piano *Malaguena Lecuona-Grofe *"Wintergreen for President," from "Of Thee I Sing" Gershwin (Regular prices for balconies) *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
...smaller independents fell in line and signed up with C. I. O.'s Steel Workers Organizing Committee, the larger companies, employing more than 200,000 men and producing about one-fourth of the nation's steel, continued stubborn holdouts. When the Supreme Court certified the Wagner Act, their resistance took a subtle turn. They were entirely willing to bargain with S. W. O. C. and perhaps to enter into agreements with it-but they would have nothing put down in writing. Standing thus, they were strictly within their legal rights: the Wagner Act requires only bargaining, not written...
Composer Damrosch began to conduct the New York Symphony and Oratorio Societies 50 years ago, kept the former until 1927, year before it merged with the Philharmonic, founded the Damrosch Opera Company and made $53,000 the first season. He made himself nationally famous by his lectures on Wagner, is still active with a children's music hour on the radio. Arthur Guiterman, whose verses in oldtime Life and elsewhere were for a generation as much of a U. S. landmark as the drawings of Charles Dana Gibson, still publishes skittish poems, but has in recent years tried more...
Last week neither Damrosch's music nor Guiterman's libretto could make their two-act opera entirely successful. Ignoring the possibilities of a rip-snorting plot, the score abounded in old turns and phrases, was at its best when it borrowed obviously from Wagner. Set songs were brought off skilfully but they often sounded banal. The text was happy, fitted the music better than most U. S. operas permit. Since opera needs a soprano, Authors Damrosch & Guiterman interpolated a new character, Mary Rutledge, as Nolan's sweetheart. When Philip is tried by a military tribunal, she nervously...