Word: wagnerism
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Last fall, when he conducted the Berlin Philharmonic in Berlin, the best critics in the house-the orchestra members-cheered him. Glowed Dunbar: "They're wonderful. Boy, I could drink five gallons of beer!" Some in the audience, accustomed to Brahms and Wagner, found the cacophony of William Grant Still's Afro-American Symphony a little hard to take. So did some in the audience at Hollywood Bowl last week. But they were impressed by the conservative and competent way he handled Weber's tried & true overture to Oberon, Aaron Copland's El Salon Mexico...
...years, Soprano Sayao chose Debussy's ethereal opera, Pelléas et Mélisande, which she considers her best job at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. (Said she: "I don't know how Brazilian audience will receive this thing. They just begin to understand Wagner and Debussy maybe.") Her suspicions were right...
...Refused to enact a House rider to the $1.2 billion Labor Department and Federal Security Agency appropriations for 1946-47. The rider, which would have withdrawn the protection of the Wagner Act from thousands of U.S. packinghouse and agricultural workers, was sent to a joint Senate-House committee for further discussion...
...railroads hurriedly scheduled special late trains to carry concertgoers back to outlying cantons. In the required five days, the opera house was sold out. Toscanini arrived from Milan with the 112-piece La Scala Orchestra for his first European concert outside Italy since the war. Lucerne heard the Beethoven, Wagner, Brahms and Debussy he had prepared for Paris and London...
...Reader Gray is technically right, actually wrong. NLRB does not police contracts as such, but does take cases of violation (under the Wagner Act) if the company's breaking of a contract leads to changes in hours, wages or working conditions not cleared with the union...