Word: wagnerism
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...Wagner had passed the point of having to worry about such things. He had said he was stepping down, and he meant it. He seemed hardly to care that Bobby Kennedy, with whom his relationship has been cool, would now try to step in as undisputed leader of the party in New York. Wagner's financial future was assured, if only because he is eligible for a sizable pension as a result of his many years as a public servant. While other Democrats fight it out, first against each other and then against Lindsay, Wagner will be able...
...SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH Robert Wagner, LL.D., Mayor of New York...
...opened a new Tristan und Isolde that dispensed almost entirely with theatrical effects, set the most important scenes in near-darkness. Explained Director Rudolf Hartmann: "I wanted this to be a Tristan in which the main interpretation was left to the music." His concern, which would have delighted Richard Wagner, suited the occasion: the 100th anniversary of Tristan's première-also in Munich...
...opera's first production was almost as heavy with intrigue as Wagner's plot. Though the composer grandly pronounced Tristan "the greatest musical drama of all time," opera houses in Dresden, Berlin, Vienna and Munich rejected it as "unperformable." Moreover, to a public reared on Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti and Meyerbeer, most of Wagner's works seemed to be joyless monstrosities...
Doting Benefactor. Wagner had other troubles. A republican revolutionary, he was forced to flee Germany in 1849 and was subsequently hounded across Europe by a pack of creditors. His deliverance came in 1864-seven years after he had started work on Tristan-when Ludwig II was crowned king of Bavaria. An effeminate, blue-eyed, ethereally handsome lad who was Wagner's most ardent admirer, Ludwig, then 18, dispatched an emissary to track down his idol, finally discovered the composer holed up in an attic room of a hotel in Stuttgart...