Word: wagnerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first half of the program, conducted by the HRO's James Yannatos, opened with Wagner's "Siegfried Idyll" for orchestra alone. This piece is performed fairly often, I suppose because it has a pretty tone and absorbing orchestration. But the development is not especially interesting or moving, and the piece lacks that boldness that is so attractive in much of Wagner's other music...
Listening to the Bach Society Concert, one might have recalled Rossini's wry remark about Wagner: "He has his brilliant moments, yes--and his dull quarters of an hour." Yet the orchestra's successes, as surely as Tannhauser's, more than compensated for the generous lapses in between...
Monday, November 29 NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERT WITH LEONARD BERNSTEIN (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). "Musical Atoms-A Study of Intervals," illustrated with performances of Brahms, Vaughan Williams and Wagner, accompanied by verbal explanations from Bernstein...
Dancing in the Aisles. The city's ponderous machinery rose to the occasion with unaccustomed swiftness. Mayor Robert Wagner, seeing the lights go out as he drove up the East Side, alerted his Emergency Control Board with his limousine phone. The Police Department, its communications and operations rooms lit by auxiliary power, summoned 5,000 men back to duty, had a force of 15,000 on hand before the long night ended. Because the alarm system was disconnected, the Fire Department sent trucks lumbering through the streets looking for fires. On orders from Governor Nelson Rockefeller, 7,000 National Guardsmen...
...quickly enough. A black-market version of her debut was already selling briskly for $25. Artists, who naturally get no royalties from the piratings, are equally irritated. Mezzo-Soprano Regina Resnik, rummaging through a record bin a few years ago, was startled to hear a recording of Wagner's Ring cycle, whose label listed a cast of singers and an opera company she had never heard of. "You know who that is singing?," she cried at the proprietor. "That's me!", and she got a court order to ban its further sale...