Word: wagnerism
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There could be one big hitch in the plans: New York City's five counties alone have 512 votes, mostly controlled by Tammany and Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. Like F.D.R. Jr., Wagner wants to follow a father's tracks-in his case, to the U.S. Senate. Wagner too may decide that the best route to Washington runs through Albany, as it did for Senator Herbert Lehman. Or he might be persuaded to run by those New York Democrats who feel that Junior is just plain poison. But, as of last week, the chances were that in November...
...winter at home. In Prades (June 7-20), the Casals Festival will offer Beethoven chamber music (top visiting artist: Rudolf Serkin). At Amsterdam, The Hague and Scheveninge (June 15-July 15), visiting conductors will lead the Concertgebouw, The Hague Residentie and BBC symphonies. At Bayreuth (July 22-Aug. 22), Wagner's two grandsons will mount seven of the master's music dramas. Salzburg (July 25-Aug. 30), as usual, will specialize in Mozart, but will also include the world premiere of Penelope, a new opera by a contemporary Swiss composer, Rolf Liebermann. At Edinburgh (Aug. 22-Sept...
...European journal lectures to our faculty and student body. He wants to 'make a good impression' and not to appear 'too highbrow.' So instead of moving on from his latest brilliant book on microtonality, he boldly suggests that music did not end with Chopin and Wagner...
...duty. 1,500 members of the 45th Infantry Division, all American Indians, staged a war dance. Last week, when the 45th returned to the U.S. from its latest overseas tour, 1,000 men marched from Manhattan's Bowling Green to City Hall, where General Matthew Ridgway, Mayor Robert Wagner, and a host of brass were waiting to welcome them home. Along Broadway the traditional ticker tape slithered down on the marching men-the first to return from Korea as a unit-and a crowd of 250,000 New Yorkers cheered them on their way. After the ceremonies...
...Germans are emotionally and musically susceptible. Wagner appeals to their pride of race. I venture to think that if you had in England a series of really stunning grand operas with gorgeous music and pageantry glorifying England from the Tudors up to 1914, that in a generation they could wreck the English genius for political self-government...