Word: wagnerism
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...Richard Wagner: His Story and His Music (Vox). This is a handsome way for a musically receptive child to meet a master. The dissonances of Wagner's life are scanted, but the sonic sensuousness of his work is served boldly, briefly and well...
...unknown" colleges are in lively U.S. cities: New Orleans' Sophie Newcomb is the women's branch of Tulane University; and Washington. D.C.'s Trinity is a topflight Roman Catholic girls' school that emphasizes science and languages, including Russian and Chinese. New York City's Wagner College has a double feature: a hilltop rural campus on Staten Island with a sweeping view of passing ocean liners and easy access (by a 5? ferry ride past the Statue of Liberty) to the cultural riches of Manhattan...
...were inscribed in various souvenir albums. Included are Mozart's Marche Funebre del Signor Maestro Contrapunto (Funeral March of Master Counterpoint), a mock-heroic exercise for his pupil, Babette Ployer; Beethoven's graceful and pensive Bagatelle for Therese Malfatti, the 18-year-old niece of his doctor; Wagner's Ankunft bei den Schwarzen Schwänen (Arrival at the Black Swans), which sounds a little like Tristan und Isolde as written by Frédéric Chopin...
Labor: Oregon's Congresswoman Edith Green; New York's Mayor Robert Wagner; New Jersey Congressman Frank Thompson; United Steelworkers' Counsel Arthur Goldberg...
...strike was illegal under New York State's never-used Condon-Wadlin Act, which outlaws strikes by public employees on pain of dismissal. But School Superintendent John J. Theobald did not invoke the law, instead suspended the strikers. Then Mayor Robert F. Wagner called in three top labor leaders, including the Garment Workers' Dave Dubinsky, to "mediate." Said one: "We pledge to the families of New York City that there will be no recurrence...