Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Legislation which would repeal the Taft-Hartley Bill was introduced by 15 senators, including two Republicans, yesterday, sponsored primarily by Senators Pepper and Wagner...
...attributing of "sexiness" to Gounod, that master of banality in music, shows a lack of discernment somewhere. Cesar Franck, a devout Catholic, wrote music whose sensuality is unsurpassed in the late romantic era. His models were Liszt and Wagner, both of whom did their level best to transfer their sexual emotions to music. But who knows that the Bach fugues that some consider so dry and pedantic at this time were not the height of voluptuousness when they were created? And Mozart, who so often is accused of superficiality, was in a sense the Wagner of his time, only...
First Shot. The C.I.O. and A.F.L., working separately but on parallel tracks, opened their legal campaign. There was ample precedent for such tactics. All important laws get their court tests, and labor laws get the most stringent tests of all. In 1936, management blasted away at the Wagner Act with 83 test suits in the first ten months...
Boston Symphony Esplanade Concert (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC). The Frescobaldi-Kindler Toccata, Wagner's Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, Liszt's Concerto in E-Flat, Delibes' Procession of Bacchus from Sylvia. Conductor: Arthur Fiedler...
...Grand Symphony had been played often during Berlioz' life, and Richard Wagner, notably stingy with praise for his contemporaries, had called it great and noble from first note to last. Said he: "This symphony will live as long as there is a nation that calls itself France." But after Berlioz' death in 1869, his symphony for band was largely neglected. Richard Franko Goldman, son and heir-apparent of famed Bandmaster Edwin Franko Goldman (now 69) had come across it in the scarce diggings of classical band literature, adapted its score for the 56 instruments in the Goldman Band...