Word: wagners
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...houses in the world, host to an exclusive festival each summer. It’s the middle of June, rehearsals are well under way. My presumption that a day in Bayreuth (I am here at the behest of Let’s Go) would bring me closer to Richard Wagner and his music already seems dubious...
...last boss of Tammany Hall; in New York City. He rose through the ranks as a messenger boy for political captains and ensured that the most politically deserving, needy families received their holiday food baskets. As head of the New York organization in the 1950s, he handpicked Robert F. Wagner Jr. as mayor and W. Averell Harriman as Governor and, some said, could have named the Democratic presidential nominee. But by the late 1960s he had been denounced as authoritarian, convicted of petty bribery and defeated in local elections...
...world's most accomplished and sought-after conductors, announced that he wants to perform a complete cycle of Mahler's symphonies in 2011, the centenary of the composer's death, and that he plans to present an opera in concert every year, culminating in a performance of Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelungs, the most challenging work in the Western musical canon. But what De Waart mainly wants is a new concert hall...
While Rachael A. Wagner ’04, who graduated summa, said that she didn’t think graduating this year versus next year would have affected her all that much—because summa cum laude honors will remain capped at five percent as they were this year—she admitted that the new restrictions have their disadvantages...
...Thus he has one character describe our hero's instant amnesia as "a loss of memory, with plot complications." Skinner, before singing "The Lorelei" (she does it in Madeline Kahn's Teutonic-twat accent from "Blazing Saddles"), tells the audience, "Here's a little number that Wagner cut from 'Das Rheingold'." Bartlett, suddenly in a Russian mood, murmurs, "Dosvedanya. Dostoevsky. Vo do dee oh do." Later he storms, "You know I don't allow double entendres in my house. Single entendres are all I can afford." At the end, the plot is dutifully wrapped up, sort of. As Skinner says...