Word: wagnerian
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...American painting at that time showed little of the imagination and enterprise that marked the nation's westward expansion; most artists contented themselves with rusty, romantic sunsets and tight, bright genre scenes. The dreamy landscapes of the Hudson River School and Albert Bierstadt's Wagnerian-mood pictures of the Rocky Mountains were considered the best...
Died. Olive Fremstad, eightyish, old-time Wagnerian soprano, one of the last of the hefty, histrionic divas of the Metropolitan Opera's early-century "Golden Age"; in Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y. In Minnesota, where her father emigrated from Norway and set up as a Methodist lay preacher, she played the organ at his revival meetings, worked her way to Manhattan stardom, made a million, at her farewell appearance in 1914 (as Elsa in Lohengrin) took 40 curtain calls...
...last opera has found a new golden voice,"' reads the Billboard ad for a new RCA Victor Red Seal record this week. The eminent critical authority behind the statement was Wagnerian Soprano Helen Traubel, but serious opera fans would do well to read the small type on the label. Traubel's plug was for her new duet partner, Jimmy Durante, a man whose voice has all the golden quality of metallurgical coke...
...idea of a record was a natural after two Traubel appearances with Durante on television (TIME, Dec. n), in which she used her full Wagnerian range on the Durante specials, A Real Piano Player and The Song's Gotta Come from the Heart. The new record, now on its way to distributors, consists of the same songs done as duets. It is on Victor's classical label because Traubel's exclusive Red Seal contract prevents her from recording for any less elevated series. Says Traubel: "It's a pleasure to record with a great artiste whose...
...played on the arrival of President Grant to open the centennial. A New York Times critic found it "as clearly Wagnerian as anything in Lohengrin," but crustily concluded that "all its beauties as a specimen of orchestral writing do not make amends for [its] lack of thought...