Word: wagnerism
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...Rated by some critics the vocal equal of famed Kirsten Flags tad (whose roles she has inherited), Helen Traubel is far & away the finest U.S. Wagnerian soprano of her generation, and one of the three or four finest in the world. Last week, as the Metropolitan's annual Wagner cycle came to an end, Traubel could claim an added distinction: no other U.S. soprano since Nordica had sung the three-volume role of Brünnhilde (Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung) right through in successive performances...
...great bellowing laugh, claims she works off as many pounds during a Wagnerian performance as a Yale quarterback in the Harvard game. "Dieting is all right for those little coloratura sopranos," says she, "but not for me. You've got to have plenty of stuffing to sing Wagner...
...union lost the NLRB election that year, and the yard has remained unorganized. But this fall the two years which the Wagner Act demands must elapse between NLRB plant elections will be up, and the CIO has already started a new organizing drive. And the task is all the more important today because of the disgraceful production muddle existing at Fore River, of which much-publicized "absenteeism" is one manifestation. It is imperative that a responsible union become bargaining agent for the workers if the problems which now cripple production are to be solved...
Friedrich Schorr's greatness as a Wagnerian interpreter sprang not as much from his voice (which was never spectacular) as from his "scholarship. An earnest, methodical man, he made Wagner's roles his business, and learned that business from the ground up. Before he considered himself ready to sing Hans Sachs, he made a trip to Nuremberg, ransacked its old churches and libraries for material on the medieval Meistersinger. Schorr never sang a major role without shutting himself up for hours before the performance, going over every detail with meticulous care. Said he: "I have a great responsibility...
...Wagnerian oldsters have been impersonated by the outstanding Wagnerian baritone of his generation, stocky, bald-headed Friedrich Schorr. Last week, before a packed house that rose to its feet and cheered, Friedrich Schorr sang Wotan for the last time. At 54, Friedrich Schorr was getting too old to be Wagner...