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...power came on again, New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner demanded an investigation. Beleaguered Consolidated Edison declared that it was not overloading but faulty circuit breakers that caused all the trouble, and practically guaranteed that this kind of thing would definitely not happen again; but skeptics felt that future blackouts could be prevented only if everybody would please not turn on his air conditioner or all the other appliances that help make the city livable. To most New Yorkers, it was simply sobering to think how utterly they can be at the mercy of a couple of large...
Even in his apprentice, Vandeleur Lee days, Shaw was far ahead of the informed opinion of his time. He was an early booster of Wagner, regarded Mozart as the greatest of composers at a time when he was not sufficiently appreciated, insisted that Bach's music belonged not to the past but to the future. British music of the 19th century was to Shaw simply "a little Mozart and water," and he periodically attacked "the absurdity of being the only music-patronizing nation in the world which systematically tolerates opera delivered in a foreign tongue." The composer he most...
...they ease them in various ways-the mother by marrying every man she meets instead of "just sleeping with them," the younger daughter by sleeping with everybody she cannot bear to marry, and the older daughter, Joan, by riding New Orleans streetcars and listening far into the night to Wagner's Liebestod. Boredom and jealousy of her sister lead Joan into an affair, and soon she finds herself pregnant. She has an abortion, and what follows is a subtly detailed, enormously effective chronicle of mental collapse. When she learns that her lover is having an affair with someone else...
Hunter & Huntee. A man of swift moods, Murdock is most happy when involved in a dozen deals at once, miserable when little details do not fall into place. At such times he turns for solace to the music of Wagner, or rereads a favorite short story called The Most Dangerous Game, in which the hero declares...
...Wagner: The Complete Piano Works (Bruce Hungerford, pianist; The Bayreuth Festival Master Classes, Inc., 2 LPs). All that survives of Wagner's small output for solo piano is seven pieces, three of them written during his Leipzig student days, when he was 18. Although the early exercises in this first recording reveal a Wagner with an ear still attuned to Beethoven, Mozart and Schubert, the later pieces-Arrival at the Black Swans (1861), Album Leaf for Betty Schott (1875)-sound intriguing, Tristan-like echoes of the curving melody that surges through his operas...