Word: wagnerians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other composers since Wagner have sought to construct a similar classification. Although Ralph Vaughan Williams' Riders to the Sea is undoubtedly a music drama in the Wagnerian sense, it probably derives more directly from Mussorgsky or Debussy (whose Pelleas et Melisande it most closely resembles...
...turn of the century, a 26-year-old song tinkerer in Vienna wrote a gigantic cantata that profoundly impressed an already influential German composer, Richard Strauss. To Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg's Gurrelieder heralded a new flowering of post-Wagnerian romanticism. But the work was, in fact, only a massive monument to a musical tradition about to decay. After it, Schoenberg was to begin the experiments with atonalism that eventually determined the direction of 20th century music. Once popular in Germany, Gurrelieder had its U.S. premiere under Leopold Stokowski in 1932, has rarely been performed since. Last week at Carnegie...
...Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William L. Shirer. The gaudy, grisly supermen of Nazidom strut their Wagnerian stage once more in a historical chronicle beside which most historical novels seem puny...
...Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William L. Shirer. This massive history by a veteran reporter holds the reader's interest to the Wagnerian...
...women's tour, has been a topflight pro ever since she graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honors from the University of Texas in 1950. Taut and moody on the golf course, Betsy lugs a portable phonograph with her on the tour, relaxes between rounds with Wagnerian opera. This season, Betsy had been in a frustrating slump, had won only two major tournaments prior to the Open, and had watched her earnings drop...