Word: wagnerism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chamber Orchestra Concert--performs Nielsen's The Little Suite, Op. 1. Wagner's Wesendonck Songs and Mozart's Symphony No. 41, "Jupiter." In MIT's Kresge Auditorium, 84 Mass. Ave. Saturday...
...support of consumers during this second boycott, the first labor law in this country protecting farm workers was passed in California. The Agricultural Labor Relations Act of 1975 gave farm workers the legal right to organize and bargain collectively. (Agricultural workers are not covered by the 1935 Wagner Act, which gives every other type of worker the right to organize and bargain collectively...
PHIL SPECTOR: BACK TO MONO (1958-1969) (Phil Spector Records Inc./Abkco). The Wagner of rock, celebrating his own Wall of Sound glory, in a four-CD box featuring 60 of his biggest hits and wildest productions. This is rock at its grandest and giddiest. Spanning nearly a quarter-century, classics like Be My Baby and Then He Kissed Me are three-minute operas of teen passion, which have endured because of the grandeur and unapologetic delirium of the Spector style. His production techniques are elaborate and near legendary, but even if they could be duplicated, it wouldn...
Some American consumers have felt both edges of the interest-rate sword. Detroit advertising executive Bruce Wagner recently saved about $150 a month by refinancing his mortgage at a rate just above 9%. But Wagner agonizes over the need to shift his children's college-education money out of CD accounts to get a better yield. "I don't particularly want to," he says, "but I'm going to have to find something else besides what had been a very secure and comfortable way to save." Such dilemmas seem certain to grow more acute so long as interest rates remain...
...that the Holy Grail was really in Japan? American theater artist Robert Wilson seems to think so. For the Zurich Opera, Wilson has conjured up a LOHENGRIN that is far removed from Wagner's realm of Brabant. The composer's scenario is full of feudal warfare and knightly swordplay. But Wilson, whose career has included such mesmerizing efforts as Einstein on the Beach and the CIVIL warS, avoids conventional stage action, particularly the use of arms and hands. So this is a slo-mo Lohengrin with formalized gestures that recall tai chi. In place of the banks of the River...