Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...restriction of unions? One answer came in a hurry. Minnesota's Senator Joe Ball said he would introduce a bill to outlaw the closed shop, which he called "the most illiberal thing in our industrial picture." He and many other Republicans were on record for revision of the Wagner Act, to equalize employers' rights with union rights...
...Wagner's heavy oil is what makes the wheels of the Met go round. Of the Met's eight most frequently heard operas, four are his-Lohengrin, Tannhäuser, Tristan und Isolde and Die Walküre. From Caruso's debut (1903) until eleven years ago, the Met had a thick Italian accent. Then came the great Norwegian, Kirsten Flagstad, to join the great Dane, Lauritz Melchior-two singers with the bellows and brawn to shout down the batteries of trumpets and trombones that Wagner put to work in the pit. Since Flagstad went home...
Home-Grown Wagnerian. At first by default, and increasingly by merit, Helen Traubel has become the greatest Wagnerian soprano singing in the world today. She is the first great soprano at the Met to sing Wagner and nothing but (Flagstad sang Beethoven's Fidelia). She is also the first American-born Brünnhilde and Isolde who didn't study at the Wagnerian shrine at Bayreuth. Until 1940, when she sang in Canada, Helen Traubel had never been out of the U.S. She has never crossed the Atlantic...
...office, the debate about Traubel and Flagstad is irrelevant: Wagner continues to sell out. There are still some who prefer Flagstad's glacial perfection to Traubel's warmer but more uneven performances. Traubel's singing, being more emotional, generally improves as the evening goes on; she is at her best in the great third act of Tristan...
...Liberal"? A liberal has always been a man who desires freedom of action, thought, and expression. It is unnecessary to elaborate the point that never in the history of this country has the individual had less freedom. The C.P.A. tells him he cannot buy a vest with his suit; Wagner Act-sponsored labor agreements tell him he cannot work for the X, Y or Z company unless he joins a certain union local; he must often strike whether or not he wants to; the W.S.B. may tell him he can't have a wage increase although his employer has agreed...