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...play of Harris was a very encouraging sign for the cagers. The 6-ft. 5-in. forward has been hampered by an injury he suffered earlier this season against Wagner, but is now fully recovered and is playing solid basketball...
...Varsity Basketball at Massachusetts 65-79L at Bentley 85-77W at South Carolina 71-85L Fordham 87-82W Dartmouth* 78-71W Wagner 73-82L at Boston College 83-86L at Brigham Young 72-113L at Stanford 81-103L Arizona State** (OT)77-81L Boston College** 78-83L Fordham** 60-71L at Pepperdine 63-95L Pennsylvania* 77-103L Princeton* 49-55L Holy Cross 73-90L Northeastern 61-81L *Ivy League *at Boston Garden **at Rainbow Classic, Honolulu...
...Bernard Wagner Hamburg...
...real problem with presenting Wagner in translation is that it exposes all the confusion in Wagner's thinking. No one is sure just what he intended his mythological, melodramatic "music-dramas" to mean, and it's likely that he never knew himself. Das Rheingold, the first opera in the cycle, shows heavy socialist influence, and some critics say Wagner's early sketches of the character Siegfried were based on Mikhail Bakunin, the mid-nineteenth century anarchist. But in the decade between the composition of acts II and III of Siegfried, the third opera in the cycle--during which Wagner wrote...
Translating Gotterdammerung just forces casual listeners to notice these troubles, which they could ignore when they weren't following the plot carefully and just revelled in the glorious music. The music is what we respect Wagner for today; his ill-conceived theories about unity of drama and music, based on very frail analogy to classical Greek tragedy, now find few admirers, especially since he himself failed to apply them carefully. And the music is much less well-served by this recording sonically and artistically than by Georg Solti's classic 1964 Decca set. If there is a need for Wagner...