Word: wagnerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Musical Levitation. Shaw, 51, long regarded as America's top chorus master, conducted clean, well-balanced though somewhat earthbound readings of the overture to Wagner's Die Meistersinger and Copland's recently revised Canticle of Freedom. The evening's climax-Beethoven's formidable Ninth ("Choral") Symphony-was a feat of musical levitation. The intelligence and spirit of the interpretation, along with the sheer force and clarity of Shaw's baton, lifted the performance above its own technical flaws-some faulty string playing, moments of rhythmic dislocation-to provide music that frequently soared with...
...Then there was Lou Brock. In six games, he had collected ten hits, stolen four bases and scored seven runs. So in the seventh he rapped out two more hits-and proceeded to steal three more bases, thus breaking a Series record set way back in 1909 by Honus Wagner. "My boy Lou," said Red, "stole everything but the lobster from Boston Harbor...
...Lion offense centers around captain Abe Lesnick, who scored three goals in leading his team past Wagner. 6-0, and center-forward Demetrios Lappas. But outside of the Wagner debacle, that offense has been slightly less than potent. managing only a goal apiece in tying Colgate and bowing to Princeton...
...record during three terms in the state house of representatives, where he has sponsored bills for state laws controlling riots and the sale of firearms. He has refused to support establishment of a civilian review board for the police, but he vowed, if elected, to fire Police Chief Richard Wagner for being insensitive to the city's racial problems. He hit at the Locher administration's weaknesses: lagging urban renewal, lethargic leadership, and festering discontent in the slums. His campaign was a shrewd mixture of tolerance and toughness...
...about Bayreuth's future. Bad enough, said the article, that Wolfgang's production was cluttered, unimaginative and-worst of all-harmless. In his very staging of Lohengrin, the magazine saw signs of an alleged return to the bad old Nazi days. The presence at rehearsals of Mama Wagner, now 73, was the last straw...