Word: wagnerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WAGNER: TRISTAN AND ISOLDE (5 LPs; Deutsche Grammophon). Just as the lovers sing in darkest Liebesnacht of the light that shines within them, this recording illuminates Wagner's murky masterpiece. Taped live at Bayreuth last summer, it is by far the best interpretation yet. Most of the credit goes to Karl Bohm, who brings out all the opera's passion and eroticism without tripping over its technical difficulties. The tempos are strong, the melodic and thematic lines always clear-all of which supports the singers and frees them to pour their strength into vocal characterization. In the seven...
...word, no. But it reminds me of 1874. Imagine! W. E. Gladstone attacked papal infallibility in his pamphlet, The Vatican Decrees, Solomon introduced the pressure-cooking method for canning foods, Richard Wagner completed Götterddmmerung, and Wingfield invented lawn tennis. And, oh yes-civil marriage was made compulsory in Germany...
...Diane H. Wagner '67, of 36 Dana Street and Phoenix, Ariz., died last Wednesday in Cambridge City Hospital from brain injuries sustained in a high-speed twocar collision...
...Miss Wagner, who was 21, majored in social relations. She wrote poetry and last year participated in an advanced seminar in creative writing conducted by Robert Lowell Jr. '37. She planned to travel to the Far East this summer with the Harvard-Radcliffe Choral Society...
...Groschen. The festival is the fruition of a decades-old urge of Karajan's to present Wagner's great cycle with absolute control over all the elements-a Ring that he could wrap around his little finger. His home town of Salzburg was the obvious setting, with its magnificent Festspielhaus. But Karajan was unwilling to ask the Austrian government for a single groschen of the customary state financial support; his official relations have been strained since 1964, when he quit as director of the Vienna State Opera because of "bureaucratic interference...