Word: wagnerism
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ERNEST A. WAGNER Licensed Embalmer Minneapolis
...Lincoln Kirstein, boss man at City Center, knew the company of young singers were willing to tackle anything, even coloratura. Moreover, Kirstein himself is tiring of the heavy melodrama of Verdi and the heavy orchestras of Wagner. He is betting that the future lies with compositions that combine high spirits and vocal acrobatics. He decided that Cenerentola might help him test his theory...
...There were no program duplications. Beethoven was the composer most played (three symphonies and a concerto), Wagner and Bartok next...
Since her debut at the Met (TIME, Feb. 12, 1945), Blanche Thebom has handled her career just as thoughtfully. No longer does she spend all her time at the Met in the heavy-set roles, traditionally doled out to mezzos, e.g., Brangaene and other secondary parts in Wagner operas, Amneris in Aïda. Last season, as the Met's English-language repertory grew, she turned comedienne, won all-out approval for her beautiful-but-dumb Dorabella in Cosï Fan Tutte. This year, she went still further afield, took on the bearded lady in Stravinsky's Rake...
...Cole, new head of the Housing and Home Finance Bureau, lacks the courage of his convictions. He has expounded them in Congress and at banquets of Real Estate Associations for many years. To the Senate Committee scrutinizing his confirmation, he proudly recited his votes against the Taft-Ellender-Wagner Housing Act, keystone of our public housing policy. Even Senator Taft, no wastrel in the housing field, says "he would have preferred a man who had taken no position...