Word: wagnerism
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Henry Ford is happier and younger than he was two years ago. He lost his fight against New Deal labor policies; after a strike and a court decision that he had violated the Wagner Act, he signed a contract with the United Automobile Workers last year. But he lost in his own peculiar way: once he had made up his mind, he called in his labor-herder, Harry Bennett, asked what the union wanted. He knew what he wanted. Said Henry Ford: "Why in the hell don't we give it [the union shop and checkoff] to them...
Trained in Vienna, the maestro worked under both Bruno Walter and the great Toscanini, before being recommended to the Metropolitan in 1938. After a short period of adjustment, Leinsdorf emerged as a leading man in the company's staff, his versatility being complemented by his understanding and genius for Wagner...
...young conductor will appear over the Network to answer questions and outline the position that Wagner romanticism will take in modern musical annals...
...scenery and acting exist to provide a convincing background for the singing, and the more effective it is the more effective the opera, but the quality of the music should be by far the most important standard of judgment. Shakespeare had to paint his scenery in words, and Wagner's eloquent orchestra does much more towards suggesting the barbaric atmosphere of his Nibelung saga than all the fancy dragons, thunderstorms, etc., that the "Met" can produce...
Returning to America in 1938, Viereck made public his thesis concerning Nazlism and the historical character whom he considers to be its spiritual ancestor, Richard Wagner. Thomas Mann was attracted by this new philosophical discovery, and through his efforts, Viereck was commissioned by knopf Publishers to enlarge his findings into "Metapolitics...