Word: wagnerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Always short of das Rheingold on his $115-a-month allowance, high-living Wolfgang ("Wummi") Wagner, 23, made up an unheroic plot. Tucked away in the family's old Villa Wahnfried in Bayreuth was an 1839 pencil sketch that Jean Auguste Ingres had made of Composer Franz Liszt, and after the great...
...Basically, this requires a voice with the coloring of a baritone and the range of a tenor. Unlike the bel canto tenor who must employ vocal embroidery, the heldentenor must possess the raw power and endurance to sing the weightiest and longest roles in opera. The supreme tests are Wagner's Tristan and Siegfried, which require 65 and 90 minutes respectively, as compared, say, with the 22 minutes for Tosca. Lauritz Melchior, the last great heldentenor, did not attempt Tristan until he was 39. Thomas, now 38, figures that his voice will be ready in about three years...
...clear and present is the danger of miscalculation by either side that public-labor disputes cry out for improved collective-bargaining techniques-probably accompanied by strike injunctions enforced by whopping fines against defiant unions and their leaders. New York's former Mayor Robert F. Wagner took a pioneering step in what most experts consider the right direction when he ordered city agencies to "promote insofar as possible the practices and procedures of collective bargaining prevailing in private labor relations." New York's United Federation of Teachers, for example, now boasts a potent no-strike contract with the board...
...nation's symphony orchestras increased their average number of concerts by 12%. The most performed composers: Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Wagner; the most performed works: Bach's Choral Prelude, Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite No. 2, Haydn's Symphony...
Where Mayor Wagner could appreciate Mike Quill's typically Irish humor and trade jokes with him, Mayor Lindsay seems to have treated him with that cold distaste and haughty contempt that characterize recent New York Times editorials. "If he wants to talk to me so much," Mike Quill reportedly said after one of the few times Lindsay had bothered to enter the transit negotiations, "then why does he insist on looking over the top of my head?" It should hardly be necessary to point out which Mayor's approach has been the more successful in protecting the public interest...