Word: wagnerism
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...Wagner also warned that no matter how large of a contrast Obama’s platform seems from Bush’s, it is always difficult to gauge the political winds in Washington...
...recent Octobers, dashing from concert hall to concert hall around Beijing, joining the capacity crowds jamming into decidedly Chinese venues to hear some decidedly un-Chinese music: Puccini in the Forbidden City; Dido & Aeneas at the Beijing Concert Hall; Handl's Messiah at the Wang Fu Jing Church; Wagner's Tannhäuser at the downtown Poly Theater. People who order their tickets in advance get in; the rest get introduced to another Western tradition - scalpers, who buy in bulk and sell out fast. It's been that way every year since Long first launched the annual Beijing Music Festival...
...Elgar returned to himself. Hangen paced the last variation very well, as he alternately pushed forward the rolling waves of sound and pulled back to build the excitement finally unleashed in the brass lines at the end. Though it took over an hour—and three selections from Wagner operas—for the BCO to open up, its performance of the “Enigma” Variations under Hangen’s direction revealed a dynamism that will hopefully appear more as the season progresses.—Staff writer June Q. Wu can be reached...
...Harvard Gazette article published at the time of his death, Wagner said that his interest in the region was piqued by his interaction with Koreans during his time in that country...
...very taken with the Korean people. They were extraordinarily kind and very interesting,” Wagner said in a 1993 interview. “Of course, considering the state that the country was in at that time, the people were really the only positive aspect to being there...