Word: wagnerism
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...when someone stages it who does not see with my eyes, hear with my ears, and have my own heart." Which leaves only one man who can meet Karajan's standards for a director of any opera that he conducts: Karajan himself. And so, for the production of Wagner's Die Walküre last week at Salzburg's new Easter Festival, Karajan had no trouble getting both assignments. After all, the creator, financial wizard and guiding spirit of the entire festival was Karajan...
...Groschen. The festival is the fruition of a decades-old urge of Karajan's to present Wagner's great cycle with absolute control over all the elements-a Ring that he could wrap around his little finger. His home town of Salzburg was the obvious setting, with its magnificent Festspielhaus. But Karajan was unwilling to ask the Austrian government for a single groschen of the customary state financial support; his official relations have been strained since 1964, when he quit as director of the Vienna State Opera because of "bureaucratic interference...
...Bach Society Orchestra's concert last Saturday night. Apparently set on shedding its all-Baroque image, the BSO performed a quarter of works representing every major stylistic period from the Baroque to the twentieth century. The program consisted of the instrumental sinfoniae from three J.S. Bach contatas, Wagner's Sieg-fried Idyll in its original instrumentation, Quiet City by Aaron Copland, and Beethoven's Eighth Symphony. It was the most ingenious program assembled at Harvard in the past several years. These works, all scored for a chamber orchestra, were ostensibly tailor-made for the Bach Society's diminutive instrumental forces...
...Idyll's original performance was by a minimum of musicians strung along the stairway of the Wagner villa. In a misguided attempt at authenticity, Hathaway eliminated most of the Bach Society's already small complement of strings. Without security in numbers. the string players were cowed by the infamous intonation problems of this highly chromatic piece...
...obvious reasons, traffic reporting is one of the most hazardous jobs in journalism. In the past ten years, at least ten traffic reporters have died in crashes. "If we can see and the wind is under 40 miles per hour, we go," says John Wagner of Kansas City's KMBC. "I've had a few knots on my head from banging against the glass while I'm trying to look out." In addition to watching out for traffic below, a reporter has to worry about ice accumulating on his rotor blades, the wash from a jet that...