Word: wagnerism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Houston (Hampton 1-1) at Pittsburgh (Wagner...
...would really have liked to have been the one who dunked the U.C. President in the water," confessed Bridget K. Wagner '95, who narrowly missed her targets...
Pittsburgh (Wagner 0-1) at St. Louis (Hill...
Montreal (P.Martinez 11-5) at Pittsburgh (Wagner...
...pieces require no apology and display a true melodic gift, reminiscent of Schubert and Schumann. Paradoxically, this heroic visionary was most at home in such small-scale works; his more ambitious pieces for two pianos (written in 1871 and '73) owe much in vocabulary and gesture to Liszt and Wagner. But the seams show, and the intended grandeur is painfully strained. On the other hand, a charming violin fantasy anticipates Debussy. And the songs--which were written mostly between 1861 and 1864 (though the moving Prayer to Life dates from 1882) and set to poems by Nietzsche himself, Ruckert, Pushkin...