Word: wagnerism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Bruckner represents Vienna to the longhair almost as fully as Johann Strauss does to the waltzer. An organist-teacher who knew and idolized Richard Wagner,* Bruckner was remarkably prolific (eleven symphonies) but never won wide popularity, has only a handful of dedicated champions in the U.S. His critics feel that his music is long-winded, full of thunderous ups and downs but no real climaxes. His Seventh Symphony refloats Wagner's old ecstasies on a luminous sea. Tunes follow one another like long ground swells; the hues and moods change gradually and at length. When it is all over...
...After London's Royal Philharmonic (1813). It gave its first concert in March 1842, eight months before New York's Philharmonic. *Soon after Wagner died in 1883, Bruckner said that the second movement of his Seventh Symphony was intended as a memorial to the master. Actually Bruckner had written the movement well before the composer's death. His blithe explanation: he had conceived the music following a premonition of Wagner...
...York. State Attorney General Jacob K. Javits, 52, took retiring Democrat Herbert Lehman's seat with a decisive victory over New York City's Mayor Robert F. Wagner (TIME, Oct. 1 ). Ex-Congressman Javits (1947-54) rolled up an 885,000-vote lead over Wagner in Republican counties upstate, more than enough to counterpoint the Mayor's 441,000 Democratic edge in New York's five boroughs...
There was a slight outburst of fervor when Javits moved ahead of Wagner, another as Ike moved out of reach in Oklahoma. The first sign of honest enthusiasm came at 11 p.m. when McKay took a lead over Morse in Oregon. Someone observed that McKay was ahead in Washington. "No, he's from Oregon," was the reply. "Who cares? He's a Republican," volunteered some party-liner to sum up the general attitude of the gathering...
...York: Ike is clearly ahead. Republicans are favored to pick up a Senate seat with victory of Republican Jacob Javits over New York's Mayor Robert Wagner...