Word: wagnerians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finitely touched," De Gaulle began. "I bring you the greetings of the Parisian people and the people of France." Then, in perfectly polished Russian: "Long live Moscow! Long live Russia! Long live friendship between France and Russia!" At that cry, the lowering summer skies of Moscow burst with a Wagnerian thunderclap, lightning bolts crackled among the onion domes of the Kremlin, and the rain came streaming down...
...from Britain, packed away from the blitz with her actress mother and sent to study drama in New York. She was, she says, "16, going on 95" when she got her first job-as a nightclub singer and impressionist in Canada. "I did Bea Lillie, Gracie Fields and a Wagnerian opera singer," she recalls. "I wasn't awfully good." True, but her nightclub spot earned enough money to pay her passage to Hollywood, and it was there, at 17, that she got her first movie role, and there that casting directors decided that Angela Lansbury was the girl...
...according to Thomas, it means that he has "the heroic amount of guts" needed to sing Wagnerian roles. Put in the U.S., it means that Thomas is the first and most notable of what appears to be a new stable of American heldentenors: men with the projection of a foghorn, the endurance of a marathon cyclist and the range of an ICBM. Most have an ego to match...
...TIDE (Philles). Few white singers can sing rhythm and blues like the Righteous Brothers ("blue-eyed soul," it is called), but for the moment they seem swept away by Wagnerian passions. In fact, the singing is all but drowned out by a symphonic surge apparently recorded in an ocean cave...
Alban Berg's fine scores, expressively terse and textually dense, always pose the initial problem of hearing all that is essential. In the Violin Concerto, this dilemma assumes near-fatal proportions. The solo instrument is integrated into a large Wagnerian orchestra, which it must dominate with music marked mezzo-piano (or softer) seventy-five per cent of the time! Now Berg was no fool; the orchestra's dynamics are determined accordingly. But no orchestra can or will play continually softly, and the HRO proved no exception. The resulting acoustical imbalance seriously challenged the considerable prowess of violinist Charles Castleman...