Word: wagnerism
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...interesting and penetrating analysis of the origin of the Nazi Weltanschaugg. Writing under some difficulty because of his father's connection with the Nazis, Viereck is emphatic in his repudiation of the Hitlerian myth without being unfairly vindictive. Drawing his somewhat vague title from the letters of Richard Wagner, he points out clearly its appropriateness and the significance of its sourse. With a facile and sometimes flip pen, Viereck traces the origins of the feverish ideas of present-day Germany to the Romanticism of the last century and to even remoter sources of German character...
...books is not an emotional tirade against Nazi idealism. Instead it points out that these "nihilists" have a very definite set of values. The values of "metapolitics" are the "intertwining of four strands, Romanticism, the "science" of racism, a vague economic socialism, and Volk collectivity," Wagner is analyzed to show his peculiar position as forerunner of the Nazis. Their idealism is precisely the "soaring into metapolitics" Wagner wrote of. This theory of Wagner Viereck holds in common with Jacques Barzun and Reinhold Niebuhr, and is backed up by Hitler's own words. Nazi metapolitics, however, though a definite creed, runs...
...genial pantheistic pagan who has achieved complete harmony within himself is entirely false. Mahler lived in a confused time and was himself a mass of contradictory tendencies. You have in him the paradox of a composer who, in contrast to the tone-painting and theme-overlapping of Wagner and Strauss, wrote in the classical symphonic form with a sound knowledge of counter-point, yet one who was essentially homophonic in style and never attained the balance and integrated development that the classical forms imply...
...money Russ deserves as much credit as Colin Kelly or Buzz Wagner. "Going out in a blaze of glory" has a new meaning...
...Wagner: Three Deathless Songs (Helen Traubel, soprano, with Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski; Victor; 4 sides). The title is Victor's, the songs Träume (Dreams), Im Treibhaus (In the Greenhouse), Schmerzen (Afflictions) - the first two studies for Tristan und Isolde. Traubel sings opulently...