Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vice President Hugh Gallagher of the Matson Navigation Co. said sadly: "We followed the rules of collective bargaining. We arrived at what seemed a fair deal. Now we are caught between the Wagner Act and the WSB, like getting caught in gunfire between the door and the bar. About all we can do is lie down on the floor...
...worst, background music is a cheap way of getting or underscoring an emotional effect, full of Wagner's tritest tricks. At its best, says Rozsa, it can help to "complete a psychological effect." Spellbound and The Lost Weekend, full of mental quirks and jangled nerves, were right up his Tin Pan alley. To express one hero's amnesia and the other's lust for alcohol, Rozsa used an unearthly contralto wail, produced electronically by a radio-like instrument called the theremin (TIME, April 11, 1932). The theremin, almost never used in a Hollywood film score before...
...Wagner: Die Walküre-Duet (Act I Scene 3) (Helen Traubel and Emery Darcy with the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). Helen Traubel's Sieglinde is more vigorous but less musically sure than the old Lotte Lehmann version. Performance: good...
Last fall, when he conducted the Berlin Philharmonic in Berlin, the best critics in the house-the orchestra members-cheered him. Glowed Dunbar: "They're wonderful. Boy, I could drink five gallons of beer!" Some in the audience, accustomed to Brahms and Wagner, found the cacophony of William Grant Still's Afro-American Symphony a little hard to take. So did some in the audience at Hollywood Bowl last week. But they were impressed by the conservative and competent way he handled Weber's tried & true overture to Oberon, Aaron Copland's El Salon Mexico...
...years, Soprano Sayao chose Debussy's ethereal opera, Pelléas et Mélisande, which she considers her best job at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. (Said she: "I don't know how Brazilian audience will receive this thing. They just begin to understand Wagner and Debussy maybe.") Her suspicions were right...