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...WAGNER: HIGHLIGHTS FROM "THE RING" (CBS). Just in time for the annual Wagner festival in Bayreuth, West Germany, the short version. Montserrat Caballe sings the immolation scene; Zubin Mehta conducts the New York Philharmonic in excerpts from the other three Ring operas...
...retired associate director of the Boston Pops Harry Ellis Dickson, Fanfare for Michael Dukakis was a freeze-dried composition by Corporate Composer John Williams, also responsible for NBC's bloated theme song. Dubbed Fanfare for a Son-in-Law, the piece brings to mind Mark Twain's crack about Wagner's music being "better than it sounds...
...Cirque will head next to Toronto, then Washington. Back in Montreal, a new, even more theatrical show is being planned. In the meantime, performers move in and out of the Cirque's cast as the show travels. The youngest so far is seven-year-old Annie Wagner-Bouthillier, one of 14 -- count them -- 14 riders in a bicycle balancing stunt. In Manhattan's Battery Park City, it should not be hard to recognize her. She'll be the one with the big smile...
...currency-hungry China, the pandas are more popular ambassadors than Ping-Pong players. China rents out the animals for as much as $500,000 apiece for six months, while zoos rake in huge profits from increased attendance and souvenir sales. Says A.A.Z.P.A. Executive Director Robert Wagner: "If we don't watch what we're doing, we could love the giant panda into extinction in the next five years." Although Toledo will probably get its pandas, future short-term loans are in doubt...
...Vercingetorix in Paris after he got back from his first Pacific sojourn in 1893, and the "House of Pleasure," with its lewd carvings and mottoes, that he built in the Marquesas. Tahitian myth was as literal a gift from the gods to him as Valhalla had been to Wagner. Gauguin was no anthropologist but a romantic looking for pity and terror among the vestiges of a lost Golden Age. Certainly his flight to the Marquesas was inspired by a wide reaction against Western cultural surfeit, against an industrial France fixated on money and "development." But the life he forged from...