Word: wagnerism
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Joyce Ebert's compassionate Miranda and John Ragin's gallant Ferdinand are highly affecting. Their first meeting is one of the most sublime in all theatre, surpassed only perhaps by that of Siegfried and Brunnehilde in Wagner's Ring. In the log-toting scene, it is a lovely touch to have Ferdinand caress a log in his arms as he ruminates over his beloved, and then have Miranda embrace the same log out of bashfulness during their ensuing duologue. (Another inspired bit comes at the end when Prospero gives Ariel his much-desired freedom: here the fingertips...
...York's Democratic leaders, were all smiles and compliments. One after another, the bigwigs pledged their support. "His strength," said Tammany's Carmine De Sapio, "has continued to magnify itself." And former Governor Averell Harriman (involved in a backstage battle with New York's Mayor Wagner for leadership of the delegation to the convention) sounded agreement. "Almost all of us think you will do more good for our party if you get the nomination, particularly in New York State." As the lunch turned into a love feast, Kennedy could count on a big majority...
...that the German architect Alexander Koch sounded a theme for the growing style by calling for the "complete integration of all artists, architects, sculptors, painters and technical artists." Just as Wagner had tried to create a "total theater" so there was now to be a total art, embracing every conceivable object. Though Belgium more than any other country led the way, the new style seemed to pop up all over the Western world...
...different style, hoping to be a Wagnerian singer. The daughter of a Sydney tailor, she took her first voice lessons from her mother, a "nonprofessional mezzo-soprano," won a number of local competitions and with the prize money decamped for London. At Covent Garden auditions, she learned that the Wagner repertory was not for her: "My voice really isn't heavy enough for that, and I soon understood that I'd been forcing it along a road that was wrong...
...replacement for the late Eduard van Beinum, the Los Angeles Philharmonic announced the appointment of Hungarian-born Georg Solti, 47, now musical director of the excellent Frankfurt Opera. Solti has guest-conducted most major U.S. orchestras, built a reputation in Europe as a fine interpreter of Mozart and Wagner, next season will make his debut at the Metropolitan Opera conducting a revival of Tannhäuser. But his main enthusiasm, he has said, is symphonic conducting, particularly in the U.S. Says he: "This is the country of the future. And it has a growing music tradition. I like something that...