Word: wagnerism
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...jubilee concert made no attempt to duplicate the first one in 1895-no modern prom audience would stand for that hodgepodge of waltzes, marches and cornet solos-but it did stick pretty close to prom tradition. There were Richard Wagner's Rienzi Overture, the first piece played at the first prom; Serenade to Music, a short choral work written by Vaughan Williams for Wood's golden jubilee as a conductor 16 years ago; Sargent's own Impression of a Windy Day, which had its prom premiere in 1921; Liszt's Hungarian Fantasia, played by Pianist Mark...
...conductor slammed down his baton, grumbled "auf Wiedersehen," and walked out. Leading singers caught colds in the wet July weather. Technicians scrambled to lighten the murky stage so that the audience could see more of what was going on. After six weeks of preparing the season, Wieland and Wolfgang Wagner last week raised the curtain on the opening production, their grandfather's Tannhäuser. Despite all crises, the production turned out topnotch...
...Kiev-born Conductor Igor Markevitch, who had never done Wagnerian opera before, then replaced him with Germany's Joseph Keilberth. "I was not aware that anybody here was interested in tempo," huffed Markevitch at one point. "All they talk about is lighting"-and no wonder, for Director Wieland Wagner's new staging relies mainly on light effects. When the trumpets announced curtain time one afternoon last week, nobody at Bayreuth quite knew what to expect...
After the final curtain, half of the Bayreuth audience seemed in tears, clapped for 15 minutes. With Tannhäuser, the Bayreuth brothers have now redraped all the standard Wagner works in their new, bare, dramatically lighted dress. Their style has become a prototype for new Wagner productions in most major opera houses. Notable exception: New York's Metropolitan, whose Wagner producers seem never to have heard of Bayreuth's lighting, let alone Minsky...
...sessions at Madison Square Garden and in meetings at midtown hotels, they talked about everything from juvenile delinquency to audio-visual aids. They elected a sprightly new president-Miss Waurine Walker of the Texas Education Agency-heard such notables as Mayor Robert Wagner and U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjoöld. But for the most part, the effect of the convention was to remind the public once again that it was far from performing its proper duty towards the public schools...