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...place of Wagnerian and other German music in the world today will be discussed by Erich Leinsdorf, leading Wagnerian conductor, over the Crimson Network at 4 o'clock today. Leinsdorf, who is in Boston to lead three of the Metropolitan's German productions this week, will also describe several of the works of the great 19th century master, including the famous "Ring" cycle...
Leinsdorf became the Met's leading German conductor in 1939, and has broadcast with the N. B. C. Orchestra and other musical groups as well as leading Wagnerian productions with the New York company. On various occasions he has stepped from his German role to conduct Italian and French opera...
...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 It links together in a fundamental way two works essentially decadent--where structural unity has been replaced by a series of separate emotional patterns, where the medium is over-refined...