Word: wagnerism
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...base of accepted principles and law, used his analytical mind to sift out the facts. The Taft-Hartley Act made no effort to establish new principles of labor relations. Rather, it was a great improvisation, intended to register a shift of public sentiment against the one-sidedness of the Wagner Act. It was not the last word on the subject, and Taft admitted it; he had none of the politician's usual prejudice against acknowledging mistakes. In 1949, at hearings on revision of the act, he faced labor's legal experts, countering their citations with citations...
Missing from the podium this year was veteran Conductor Hans Knappertsbusch, 65, last of the great Wagner traditionalists, a casualty of the grandsons' innovations. He was in the middle of a rehearsal last spring when he suddenly put down his baton and folded his hands. Wieland Wagner, who had already lost temperamental Conductor Herbert von Karajan over artistic disagreements, begged him to explain what he wanted. "I wish," replied Knappertsbusch, "that you would put back into this opera what your grandfather put into it and what you have taken out." The quarrel was never patched...
...Wagner brothers' innovations in staging may have cost them some admirers, but the changes seem to be sticking...
This year there is scarcely an opera house in Wagner's homeland that has not adopted some of their simplified staging as standard. As for the objectors, each year there are fewer of those who can remember Bayreuth's original traditions...
...Sons of Richard Wagner's only son, Siegfried, who was born to Wagner's second wife, Cosima, illegitimate daughter of Composer Franz Liszt, who divorced Conductor Hans von Bülow to marry Wagner. For Coca's first birthday after the marriage, Wagner composed his famed Siegfried Idyll, based on themes from his opera Siegfried...