Word: wagnerism
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...himself, no amount of general education had ever dimmed his appreciation for a seat in the bleachers, or an esoteric discussion on the relative merits of Honus Wagner and Marty Marion. He had passed the stage of collecting picture cards and autographed baseballs, when his yearly trip to Yankee Stadium had assumed the proportions of a pilgrimage to Mecca, but increased sophistication and the price of a grandstand seat had served only to pitch his interest on a slightly more detached plane...
Orchestras of the Nation (Sat. 3 p.m., NBC). The Southern Symphony Orchestra (of Columbia, S.C.) in the Bach-Ormandy choral prelude, Sleepers Awake, Beethoven's Sixth (Pastoral) Symphony and Wagner's prelude to Die Meistersinger. Conductor: Carl Bamberger...
...been for London, Paris and Milan, to succumb to the persuasion of Flagstad's magnificent singing. She had shrewdly chosen an Easter program of Beethoven, Grieg and Brahms-and five U.S. composers. But the audience had not forgotten the roles that had made her famous, and shouted for Wagner. On the fifth encore she gave...
...Wagner was a reminder of what Flagstad was trying to forget. She had little chance to. Columnist Walter Winchell, among others, whooped at her almost daily. (Sample: "Please do something about this woman, who before and during the war was not on our team. . . . Norway doesn't want her, which is one very good reason for the United States not to take her.") In Seattle, which has the second largest Scandinavian population in the U.S., Impresario Cecilia Schultz said, "I positively refused to ... present her in concert here, because I have a deep-rooted allegiance for the American principles...
Murray lashed the House and Senate bills as "designed to: completely cripple Labor; destroy the Wagner Act; create confusion and industrial disturbances; create a system of totalitarianism equivalent to that which prevailed in other countries...