Word: wagnerian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German countries; good reporters can also be good spies. The Department also made notable use of movie companies: one filmed Robinson Crusoe (never released) on a strategic island off South America; another made a huge documentary (never released) of Poland, in 1938. Artists were useful, too, from a great Wagnerian soprano down to second-grade cabaret girls. And servant girls-between 1933 and 1939 some 20,000 of them went to Holland and 14,000 to England-and the famous Nazi "tourists." All over the world the Department placed its agents in radio stations; in the more backward countries, Germans...
Biographers who have pictured Composer Richard Wagner as a bit of a blackguard, a touch of a toady, had some added evidence last week. Musical Courier printed some early Wagnerian letters, extracted from a Swiss musical journal by Robert Hernried, Viennese refugee and music professor at St. Ambrose College, Davenport, Iowa...
...although harmonically Pierrot stands on the threshold of a brave new world, in spirit it takes its source from the work of Mahler. It is Post-Romantic, not as Verklarte Nacht is Post-Romantic, a jumble of Wagnerian cliches; but as Das Lied von der Erdeis Post-Romantic, lamenting a dying culture. The formal resemblance between Pierrot and Das Lied (they are both song cycles) goes deeper than mere coincidence. It links together in a fundamental way two works essentially decadent--where structural unity has been replaced by a series of separate emotional patterns, where the medium is over-refined...
...other Wagnerian soprano is comely Australian Marjorie Lawrence, famed as a Brünnhilde who actually mounts her horse instead of singing apprehensively by its side. Two months ago Soprano Lawrence was vaccinated for smallpox; paralysis developed. In Hot Springs, Ark. last fortnight she sat up for the first time, then was taken to Minneapolis for treatment by famed Australian Nurse Elizabeth Kenny (TIME, June 23). But it may be six months or more before Soprano Lawrence can mount a stage, much less a horse...
...Wagnerian short rations would be more endurable if, as happened during World War I, the public developed an antipathy to German music. Although Richard Wagner is the great Nazi musical and ideological hero, a survey in Variety last week showed that there is no U.S. reaction whatever against German music. Even Canada can take it. Variety reported that Tenor Melchior, in deference to supposed Canadian tastes, lately omitted German numbers from a recital in Montreal. His audience shouted for German encores, got them...