Word: wagnerism
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News of his passing brought expressions of sorrow from both national and New York political leaders. President Johnson, once Lehman's colleague in the Senate, called him "a distinguished leader who ably and efficiently served his state and nation." Several of his closest New York associates, including Mayor Wagner, expressed great sorrow and deep shock at his sudden death. Lehman, despite his advanced years, had been in vigorous good health...
Bewitched by Wagner. The passion ate and sentimental pride Münchners have always taken in their opera house stiffened Opera Director Rudolf Hartmann's determination that it be rebuilt in conformity with its original style. Anticipating the likelihood of war damage, Munich had carefully disassembled the gold and white interior decorations of its Cuvilliés Theater before the bombs fell, so that when it was rebuilt in 1958, all its ornaments and trappings were intact. But inside its shell, the Nationaltheater was a chaos of terra-cotta rubble where grass and trees had begun to sprout...
...throne, productions there had reached such a pitch of grandeur that the world premiere of Tristan und Isolde was largely responsible for Prussia's defeat of the Royal Bavarian Army in 1866; after the opera, there was no money left for the guns. The defeated Ludwig, bewitched by Wagner, staged three more premieres before he succumbed to a paranoid fear of crowds that kept him away from opening nights. "Each time I enter my box," he said, "I feel as if a thousand needles stab me when I see all those binoculars turned at me." The king...
...York City's reform Democratic movement theoretically lives on, but most of its excitement is gone and many of the bright, upper-middle-class Stevensonians who infused it with their energy have drifted away. In 1961 the reformers, eager for tangible political power, supported Robert F. Wagner for re-election, thus treating the city to the spectacle of an incumbent Mayor running on a platform of "throw the rascals out." This listless coalition of reformism, and the more palatable elements of the machine hasn't really worked; the reformers have gotten less than the half a loaf they hoped...
...rarely performed Coronation of Poppea proved its viability by inaugurating the 1963 Dallas Civic Opera season. And it was not the salacious story that kept Poppea popping. In Monteverdi's musical and theatrical masterpiece burgeon the seeds of the great operas of succeeding centuries-hints oi Verdi, Wagner and Richard Strauss...