Word: wagnerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when she auditioned for Bayreuth's innovation-minded director, the late Wieland Wagner, grandson of the composer. Instantly, she says, "I knew he was going to become the most important person in my life." Wieland felt the same. "When I heard her I immediately knew that there was nothing I could still teach her," he said later. The following year he overrode tradition and his family's objections and starred his unknown find in The Flying Dutchman. Also, in a move that his grandfather would have understood perfectly, Wieland, then a married man of 41, moved Anja...
...decades and undoubtedly will write a new chapter in the history of the art. Before the great age of conductors, Composer Robert Schumann spoke of the orchestra as a republic, not subject to higher authority. But the giants of the last generation, following such 19th century models as Richard Wagner, Hans von Bülow, Artur Nikisch and Gustav Mahler, acted...
Such chutzpah sometimes gets Mehta into trouble, or the glare of publicity, or both. In Israel, he created a tempest in a tea glass when he tried-unsuccessfully-to get the Israel Philharmonic to do a piece by Richard Wagner, whose music was so enthusiastically embraced by the Nazis that it still disturbs many Jews. In Italy, he flustered musical circles by picketing La Scala with musicians who were protesting a cut in state subsidies for opera. A few weeks ago, he outraged the New York musical establishment by vehemently rejecting any possibility that he might become Leonard Bernstein...
...Philharmonic-Symphony Society, has doubled from the original 53 players, to 106. What was once a daring program, with its mixture of orchestral works, chamber music and arias, now seemed merely quaint. The razzle-dazzle of Kalliwoda's Overture in D Minor sounded tame to ears familiar with Wagner, Mahler and The Rite of Spring...
...Ring, which is being mounted with a $500,000 grant from Eastern Airlines, may or may not end the current Wagnerian decline at the Met-and Manager Rudolf Bing's well-known distaste for the German master. In the 1890-91 season, 39 of 70 Met performances were Wagner; in 1965-66, the last season at the old house, ten out of 212. Lacking the heroic singers to do justice to his demands, Wagner could return to new glory on the shoulders of a heroic conductor...