Word: wagneriana
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...generations, Wagner scholars (including famed Biographer Ernest Newman) tried in vain to get a look at the largest collection of Wagneriana outside the Wagner shrine at Bayreuth-the "Burrell Collection." Last week, more than 60 years after Englishwoman Mary Burrell began the job of assembling it, the best of her collection was published: Letters of Richard Wagner (Macmillan; $10.50). For Wagner scholars, it was the end of a long, long trail...
Roger H. Sessions offers a generous, and enthusiastic appraisal of Mr. Ernest Newman's "Wagner as Man and Artist." In a patient and thoroughly intelligent analysis, he presents the pith of what seems to be a significant accession to the library of Wagneriana. With the exception of an exuberant challenge to those who might differ with one of his conclusions, Mr. Sessions is temperate, betrays an extraordinary sense of proportion, and a convincing ecquaintance with much that has been said for and against a unique artist...
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