Word: wagnerians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Liszt in Technicolor. Of the many "serious" musicians to trek to Hollywood (among them Lawrence Tibbett, Lily Pons, Risë Stevens), only Jose Iturbi and Wagnerian Tenor Lauritz Melchior have made the grade, by their ability to be themselves on the screen, to get off foolish lines with M-G-M stars Jimmy Durante and Kathryn Grayson...
...Siegfried. This week the Met, which has also been keeping track, more roughly, of Lauritz Melchior, put on a show to mark his 20th anniversary at the Metropolitan. In a special Sunday night performance, Melchior sang the most ambitious program of his career-one act each from three Wagnerian operas. Four sopranos alternated in singing with him. The demonstration proved, to the satisfaction of all present, that Melchior is not only the most durable but also the greatest of Wagnerians...
Helen Traubel, Wagnerian soprano of the Metropolitan Opera, got an operatic assist from Circusman Robert Ringling, who sent her a hand-picked horse to dress up horsy Gotterdammerung. Diva Traubel got the Wagnerian score and the horse together, but the horse just looked baffled (see cut); he didn't know the score...
...addition to this, Leopold Stokowski has been highly criticized by the musical world for his expansion of Bach chamber works to the facilities of a Wagnerian orchestra. When Koussevitzky follows, the same criticism must be applied to him; when he allows his large string section to drown out the Brandenburg soloists, he is clearly guilty of a breach in taste...
Rudolf Hess crouched in the darkened auditorium, impassively listening to the Wagnerian crash of the talkie's sound track. Suddenly he half rose: before him on the screen was Rudolf Hess, Deputy Fuhrer of the Third Reich, in the center of the triumphant 1934 Nazi Party Congress. Next to him, Adolf Hitler capered with...