Word: wieland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deep shadow over Wolfgang's life remains his brother Wieland, a director of rare theatrical imagination who revolutionized the staging of Wagner -- and all other opera -- by doing away with conventional sets. Wieland died in 1966, leaving Wolfgang in command of the festival. He too has had a busy career directing, but his work tends to be fussy and literal, and he is not taken seriously. The rumor is that Wolfgang started his memoir when he heard he had a rival, American author Frederic Spotts, whose Bayreuth (Yale University; $35) appeared in late June. Once again Wolfgang has been badly...
...maintains in his well-organized narrative. Music history, cultural comment and such issues as the family's embrace of Nazism are all deftly combined. Spotts told TIME he was so determined to maintain the right proportions that he omitted his biggest scoop: that Hitler sexually abused the young Wieland during the '20s. If he had gone into that scandal, Spotts says, "it would be all anybody wrote about...
...composer died, his wife Cosima succeeded him for 23 years, then handed control to her son Siegfried. After he died in 1930, his widow Winifred continued in his place until after the war, when, publicly disgraced for her idolatry of the Nazis, she relinquished the festival in favor of Wieland and Wolfgang. Will there be a fight over Gudrun? As surely as the Rhinegold is cursed...
...Princeton, there's just layer after layer of administration," said Mary Q. Wieland, a former president of the union that represents Princeton library workers. "You don't really have any contact with the higher levels...