Word: wagnerism
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...conscious emphasis on equality, many women students have found that in a coed environment the men still almost always end up with a disproportionate share of student offices. When men first enrolled at Sarah Lawrence, they quickly assumed so many top student posts, says Dean Robert Wagner, that "everybody was making jokes about it." In fact, the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education reported last year that women who attend women's colleges are more likely to hold leadership positions and choose traditionally male career fields than those in coed schools...
...Hitler walked through the door today, I would be just as glad and happy to see and have him here as ever." So says sprightly, white-haired Winifred Wagner, English-born daughter-in-law of Operatic Giant Richard Wagner and close friend of Adolf Hitler for 22 years. Frau Wagner, 78, broke a 30-year public silence to talk about herself and Hitler in a five-hour film, Winifred Wagner and the History of Haus Wahnfried, 1914-1975, which premiered in Paris recently. Her basic message: anybody who thinks that Hitler was cruel, malevolent and even megalomaniacal is mistaken about...
Muzzling Mother. Not surprisingly, Winni's recollections did affect the rest of the Wagner family. "I can't put a muzzle on my mother, of course," said Wolfgang Wagner, director of the annual Bayreuth festival that celebrates his grandfather's music. Nonetheless, this year the embarrassed Wolfgang has banned Winni from setting foot in the festival house, which Hitler attended regularly even at the height of World...
...objections to opera, including Wagner, in English are formidable but not necessarily insurmountable. From the practical point of view, there is the problem of the babel of accents in the international casts that might be found at, say, the Met. Probably the inanities and repetitions found in most operas would be unacceptable in English for pragmatic American audiences. Anyone seriously following the plot might walk out on il Trovatore...
...Help me, sister" (Freia), "Back to the mines" (Alberich), "What, yield my ring?" (Wotan) -were few and far between. But by Die Walkure, diction and audience comprehension had picked up considerably. How does the composer himself feel? Almost everyone who has ever gone on record about the matter, including Wagner, Verdi and Puccini, speaks desperately of his desire to have his words understood, in whatever language...