Word: wagnerism
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...write their best symphonies and songs between 30 and 34 (this would cover few of Schubert's songs, since he died at 31; it includes Beethoven's Eroica, but not his Ninth). Chamber music and grand opera written between 35 and 39 have achieved the greatest fame. Wagner wrote Tannhäuser and Lohengrin in his 30s, and by 40 was working on The Ring. Verdi was a clear exception. He churned out 25 operas by the time he was 58, then went into semiretirement. Meanwhile, Wagner's fame soared. At 74 Verdi began again...
World Music Festivals (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). The Wagner Opera Festival in Bayreuth, Germany...
...tenth of a second off the track record, but in June at Long Island's Roosevelt Raceway he had set his own world mark for the mile (1:58 1/5). After such a triumph, his owner might properly have gone on a nightlong celebration. Instead, hefty Earl Wagner, 35, grabbed the first plane ride of his life to hurry back to his home in Landover Hills, Md. By three-thirty next morning he was busy as usual, driving his milk truck around Washington...
...Forbes has already won $48,000 this season. Wagner plans to start easing the horse off now, sharpen him up for the time trials to be held in Lexington, Ky. in October, where he will be racing against the clock rather than against other horses. There, if the horse can beat the world record for time trials of 1:55, set in 1938 by Billy Direct, Wagner believes Hi-Lo's Forbes will be worth far more than the $50,000-a-year stud fees he now potentially merits as a full-time stud...
...Milkman Wagner, who has dabbled in horses since 1945 and bought Hi-Lo's Forbes as a two-year-old (for $275) from a relative, is not yet ready to declare his independence of cows. "I've been working eight years to feed my horses, now one of them is feeding me," he grants. But he adds worriedly: "A horse can go lame just standing in a stable...