Word: wagnerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Governor and blurted, in unsolicited testimonial: "No one can hope to be elected in this state without being photographed eating a hot dog at Nathan's Famous." Among others who have put in dutiful appearances are former Governor Averell Harriman, New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner and New York's former Senator Herbert Lehman. The show biz set also flocks to Nathan's, including Frequent Customers Jerry Lewis. Danny Kaye, Eddie Fisher, Shelley Winters, Eva and Zsa Zsa Gabor...
...Second Symphony is less radical than many of Ives's works. A passionate, lyrical piece, it contains unmistakable echoes of the great German romantics-Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner-but positioned neatly after their Olympian periods are Ives's variations on Turkey in the Straw, Columbia the Gem of the Ocean, even that old Dartmouth drinking song, Where, Oh Where, Are the Pea-Green Freshmen? After passages of spacious solemnity, the horns break suddenly into a capering phrase from Camptown Races; in the midst of the frenzied final movement, doleful woodwinds sound forth with Old Black Joe. Even the ending...
Although an early admirer of Wagner ("Richie Wagner did get away occasionally from doh, me, so," he wrote, "which was more than some others did"), Ives realized that he himself could not express what he wanted to say within the romantic tradition. Long before Schoenberg, Stravinsky and other modernists, he experimented with ragtime rhythms and dissonance. A practical man, he also recognized that there was no public for that kind of music, and he was far too inde pendent to try to change his style. Some time before he married his wife, Harmony, he decided that rather than "starve...
...Bayreuth, Wagner's grandson Wolfgang was up. to his old tricks: stripped down, sparsely lighted productions designed to free the stern old gods of Valhalla from heavy, cardboard-shield and plaster-throne cliches. But by now, this once revolutionary style has produced some bothersome clichés of its own. The basic stage set of last week's Ring was an eight-ton, segmented concave disk looking somewhat like a huge radar antenna. In the second and fourth Rheingold scenes it was used intact, tilted toward the audience to suggest the rugged slopes of Wotan's mountain...
...when Mime helped to fashion a sword for Siegfried out of a magic potion, he matter-of-factly cracked two eggs into the potion as if following a recipe by Gayelord Hauser. Worst of all was the lighting, which was so murky that it came close to achieving Richard Wagner's stated ideal: "Now that I have created the in visible orchestra,* I would like to invent the invisible stage...