Word: wagnerian
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...arising not from spontaneous public opinion but from the pressure of civic and church groups in addition to a large part of the country's press. Such pressure is being exerted on Boston theatres at present. This sort of hysterical condemnation is like refusing to teach German, or boycotting Wagnerian operas. But to attack his right to obey his own conscience is worse than absurd; it is dangerous. It is attacking a right which is regarded as fundamental, so fundamental that we exercise it even in wartime, although it may interfere ever so slightly with our efficiency in waging...
...There would be no point in banning Wagnerian music during the war merely in the grounds that Wagner was a German," Erich Leinsdorf, the world's leading Wagnerian conductor, who is now in Boston to lead three of the Metropolitan's German productions this week, said in a special interview yesterday afternoon over the Crimson Network...
...there anything typically German in the characters in Wagner's music dramas, Leinsdorf asserted. "The acceptance of Wagner all over the world," he pointed out, "indicates very clearly that his characters are more than merely nationalistic symbols." Wagnerian characters are not German, but are drawn almost completely from Scandinavian folk-lore...
...number of people attending Wagnerian operas has not, as some people may have supposed, fallen off since the war began, according to Leinsdorf. There has been in this war, as there was in the last war, a lively controversy as to whether or not the music of composers from enemy countries should be played...
...Wagnerian music was ruled out of the Metropolitan Opera, and there are some who would like to see the same thing happen...