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...Chamber Orchestra Concert--performs Nielsen's The Little Suite, Op. 1. Wagner's Wesendonck Songs and Mozart's Symphony No. 41, "Jupiter." In MIT's Kresge Auditorium, 84 Mass. Ave. Saturday...
...Symphony of the Air (formerly the NBC Symphony) under the direction of her longtime Accompanist Edwin Mc-Arthur, she sang four Wagner selections. Her voice had undeniably lost some of its freshness, but none of its security. She sang meltingly in two arias from Die Walkiire and the five Wesendonck Songs, with eloquence and sensuousness in the Love Death from Tristan. There was ringing power (even on her high A's and B-flats) in Brunnhilde's final scene from Gotter-ddmmerung. Before the concert Soprano Flagstad said she wondered whether she could still sing. Her listeners, some...
...19th Century it turned up in the collection of one J. Thos. Stanley, Palmerston House, Turnbridge-by-Sheffield. A generation later it was hanging on the Bavarian walls of Otto Wesendonck, husband of Richard Wagner's greatest love, Matilde Wesendonck...
...play opens and closes in 1858. Its title is something of a misnomer since Wagner's exile dates from 1849, when he fled Dresden after getting mixed up in revolutionary politics. In 1858 the musician and his wife Minna (Evelyn Varden) are under the patronage of Otto Wesendonck (Leo G. Carroll) at Zurich. With Tannhauser, Lohengrin, Das Rheingold and Die Walküre behind him, Wagner has finished the libretto of Tristan und Isolde, is working on the music, under the inspiration of Mathilda Wesendonck (Eva Le Gallienne), with the Schnorrs (Arthur Gerry and Beal Hober) singing his scores...
Everyone knows now that great Richard Wagner was a selfish, mercenary person who used everyone, lived on the bounty of Otto Wesendonck while philandering with his wife, borrowed money right & left always with the air of conferring a favor. Wagner made Germany pay heavily for the honor of fatherlanding himself and his operas. No other composer has ever lived to see a theatre existing solely for the production of his own works. But not until last week did it become known that Wagner had offered himself to the U. S. for a million dollars...