Word: wagnerism
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...WAGNER...
Super-Tiff. In a Newark divorce court, Stanley Wagner testified that, though his parents lived in the same house, he had never heard them speak to each other...
...Wagner were living today, he would not have fallen in with the Nazis," Leinsdorf said. "Wagner, like all great artists, was an individualist, and individualists have no place in Germany today," he stated. Wagner would probably have chosen to leave Germany, as more than one writer and composer has already done, rather than be forced to compose under the dictates of the Nazis, according to Leinsdorf...
...There would be no point in banning Wagnerian music during the war merely in the grounds that Wagner was a German," Erich Leinsdorf, the world's leading Wagnerian conductor, who is now in Boston to lead three of the Metropolitan's German productions this week, said in a special interview yesterday afternoon over the Crimson Network...
...there anything typically German in the characters in Wagner's music dramas, Leinsdorf asserted. "The acceptance of Wagner all over the world," he pointed out, "indicates very clearly that his characters are more than merely nationalistic symbols." Wagnerian characters are not German, but are drawn almost completely from Scandinavian folk-lore...