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Edward Willet Wagner ’49, longtime Harvard professor and founder of the Korean Institute in 1981, died Dec. 7 of pneumonia and other complications from Alzheimer’s disease in Concord, Mass...
...able to exercise that love by constantly cruising the Mediterranean coast of France in an 11-m cutter christened, in homage to Edouard Manet's infamous nude, the Olympia. (His first and much smaller boat he named, to show his artistic affiliations, the Manet-Zola-Wagner, a heavy cargo for a mere day sailer to carry.) He "discovered" St.-Tropez long before tourism did, and built there a big rambling house, La Hune, which was his base and which still, happily, belongs to his descendants...
Though he studied engineering and she studied English, the two found common passion in the monumentally long operas of Richard Wagner...
When most Americans think of opera, they conjure up a stereotype drawn from the characterization of sitcoms and a Bugs Bunny cartoon in which Elmer Fudd sings, “Kill the wabbit!” to the rune of Wagner. In this take on opera, large-breasted women dressed in Viking helmets sing for hours on end about being German, just like a good Romanticist should. The Early Music Society’s production of Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell presents an alternative vision: the opera is short, Baroque and in English. Moreover, stage director John Driscoll...
...first collegiate games, Cserny caught her opposition by surprise. She scored 19 points and grabbed a team-high eight rebounds in a 77-54 victory over Wagner. The second game of the season saw Cserny score 13 points and handle nine boards in a 93-77 Crimson loss...