Word: wagnerism
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Philadelphia Orchestra (Sun. 12:30 p.m., CBS). Music of Wagner, Tchaikovsky, directed by Eugene Ormandy...
...year-old Berlin Philharmonic is up to its white ties in tradition. Its first renowned conductor was Hans von Bülow, distinguished among other things for the fact that his wife Cosima ran away with (and eventually married) Richard Wagner. Johannes Brahms played with the Philharmonic as a piano soloist, and the famed Arthur Nikisch became its conductor in time to take the orchestra to Moscow for the coronation of Czar Nicholas II in 1896. In the next half a century, a lot of things went out of the world, including czars, and Germany became famed for other names...
When Pierre Monteux became conductor of the Boston Symphony in 1919, the reputation of the Glee Club and Choral Society was so well established that he did not even bother with an audition before inviting them to sing the grail scene of Wagner's Parsifal...
...Wagner's Siegfried Idyll demonstrated fine woodwind playing, but it suffered from some insecure string intonation and from a general inflexibility unsuited to this music of warm and affectionate caresses...
...managerial function, Carmine De Sapio is a man to watch. Averell Harriman and New York City Mayor Robert Wagner hold two of the nation's most important political offices-and both are immensely beholden to De Sapio. Moreover, De Sapio's probable control of the largest bloc of delegate votes at the Democratic National Convention in 1956 gives him a rich chunk of political capital that he can be expected to invest shrewdly...