Word: wagnerism
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...Lewisohn Stadium and its Carnegie Hall opening in October, the Philharmonic will play two weeks of four 45-minute shows a day in Manhattan's huge (6,000 seats) Roxy Theater. The first week's program, on a bill which includes Tyrone Power in The Black Rose: Wagner, Prokofiev, Puccini, Mendelssohn, De Falla...
...territory, it pays more taxes to the U.S. treasury than some states; its chief argument for statehood-"No taxation without representation"-is straight from the original 13 colonies. So are most of the ideas in the 13,000-word constitution. Others are borrowed from Lincoln, and from Senator Wagner (the constitution guarantees labor's right to organize...
...with all his heart toward the second view. The result of his fervent admiration is a two-volume study, Berlioz and the Romantic Century (Little, Brown; $12.50), the most careful, comprehensive biography of a composer and his period since Ernest Newman's monumental four-volume Life of Richard Wagner...
...success Berlioz wanted most came almost too late. As an operatic composer he won the respect of his contemporaries -Wagner, that "gay fat man" Rossini, Meyerbeer, Auber-but not the plaudits of the public. His Benvenuto Cellini flopped after four performances; the "concert opera" Damnation of Faust fell with a thud. When he was 59 and Beatrice and Benedict and The Trojans at Carthage had achieved a success, a friend remarked that people were finally coming to his operas. Replied the ailing Berlioz: "Yes, but I am going." Six years later, Berlioz was gone. At the end came an incident...
...Wagner: The Flying Dutchman (Hans Hotter, baritone; Viorica Ursuleac, soprano; George Hann, bass; Karl Ostertag, tenor; Franz Klarwein, tenor; Luise Wilier, contralto; Chorus and Orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera, Clemens Krauss conducting; Mercury, 8 sides LP). First complete recording of Wagner's early opera. Performance and recording: good...