Word: wagner
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...hour evening concert by the Israel Philharmonic at Tel Aviv's Mann Auditorium was drawing to a close when Guest Conductor Zubin Mehta, 45, unexpectedly turned to the microphone. "Tonight," said he, "we plan to play Wagner." With those words, Mehta ended an unofficial 33-year ban in Israel on the playing of music by German Composer Richard Wagner, a noted anti-Semite enshrined by the Nazis. Continued Mehta: "I understand the emotions of those who have gone through concentration camps. Anyone who does not want to hear can leave the hall." Two orchestra members and a number from...
Another is the remarkable flourishing of regional companies in the U.S., which lack the resources to put on, say, Wagner's Ring...
...been anything but a banner year for baseball. As the play-offs got under way last week, the Reds (record: 66-42) were at home watching the likes of the Kansas City Royals (record: 50-53) play on national television. "I'm disappointed," said Reds President Dick Wagner, "that baseball put marketing and merchandising ahead of tradition." Baltimore Orioles Owner Edward Bennett Williams, whose team sat out the playoffs, while five teams with worse records got into them, was more succinct: "The whole season was a terrible disaster...
...music and the text (based on Nikolai Leskov's 1865 story). It was essentially the same work that had fallen afoul of Pravda, but noticeably missing were the trombone slides, the most literal music depiction of sexual intercourse since the famous interrupted climax in Act II of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde and the lusty horn whoops in the prelude to Der Rosenkavalier...
...Wagner: Parsifal (Tenor Peter Hofmann, Bass-Baritone José van Dam, Mezzo Dunja Vejzovic, Bass-Baritone Siegmund Nimsgern, Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic and Deutsche Oper Berlin Chorus; Deutsche Grammophon, five records). Wagner's last and most difficult music drama has not had a really satisfying recording-until now. Hofmann makes Parsifal both strong and guileless, the splendid Van Dam is an anguished Amfortas, and Nimsgern is an evil, but not inhuman Klingsor. Only Vejzovic, a screechy Kundry, is weak. The real stars are Karajan and his Berliners, who capture the score's glowing spirituality...