Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cast in this play as Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813-1883), Mr. Lawson not only looks like the great musician but acts very much as Wagner must have acted during his extraordinary life. Yet the effect of his impersonation of the great German composer is definitely hammy...
...program which includes selections from the works of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Wagner, will be featured by the playing of Parry's Jerusalem accompanied by the Pomfret School Glee Club. The program follows: Overture to Egment Beethoven Tower Music (for brass instruments only) Pezel Mozart Symphony -- First Five Movements March from Tannhauser Wagner Choral Prelude Bach Jerusalem Parry
When Artur Bodanzky guided the San Francisco Opera Company through Wagner's Ring last year (TIME, Nov. 4, 1935), the U. S. rang with his success. It was the first time San Franciscans had heard the great tetralogy in years, the third time they had ever heard it. Faces fell when the directors announced that Bodanzky would not return this season, that plump, pleasant Fritz Reiner would succeed him. Know-it-alls began to gossip that Reiner planned to pare down expenses and substitute cheaper instruments for the prescribed tub en quartet, the indispensable bass trumpet. In London last...
...held guest conductorships in Berlin, Hamburg and Vienna, more recently with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic. He led the Cincinnati Symphony through nine distinguished years, heads the Orchestra and Opera Departments of Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. He is considered an expert on Wagner, likes the moderns as well as Bach, snaps crack photographs on his Contax...
...hemorrhage of the throat and lungs, after leukemia; in Hollywood. Daughter of a Major in the Imperial Army, she sang in her first public concert at Graz at 15, earned $6. In 1878 she won a debut and a four-year contract at Dresden, was chosen by Cosima Wagner to sing at Bayreuth before she was brought to Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company in 1898. During the War her son August died as a German sailor, her sons Henry and George Washington enlisted with the U. S. Navy. She had signed a three-year movie contract when...