Word: wagnerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This Tristan is becoming something terrible!" wrote Richard Wagner while working on the third act of what was to become his most famous opera. "I fear the opera will be forbidden unless the whole thing becomes a mere parody by bad performance. Completely good ones will drive people insane...
...FRANCES WAGNER Los Angeles...
Symbol of Rebellion. The shadows are changing for Harry Byrd. He is 75. His Senate career spans the New Deal and the New Frontier. "I am," he says in wry pride, "the only man left in the Senate who voted against the Wagner Act and the TVA." Throughout his career, he has been fighting against burgeoning bureaucracy and bloating budgets. It galls him that during his three decades in the Senate the public debt has swelled from $23 billion to $298 billion, and the number of federal employees has grown from 580,000 to 2,500,000. This...
...Villa Sangro in Ravello was built in the 11th century for the first Bishop of Ravello, and has harbored such guests as Richard Wagner and Queen Juliana...
...musicians were able to sleep, notably Saxophonist Joel Kaye, who at 140 lbs. is small enough to slip into the overhead luggage rack. A couple of other bandsmen listened over individual earphones to the tape recorder that Kenton had installed at the start of the tour. Favorite listening: Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Puccini...