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...used to insist on live beasts on the stage for his various animal-parts, and his widow, Cosima Wagner, who is running this show, insists on the same. 'Consequently this year's crop of Bayreuth pilgrims are viewing with glee Fricka's flock of real goats, Wotan's ravens, Siegfried's bear and toad-and, of course, the Dragon. Where the Dragon was found for this year's performance, one is unable to discover at this distance. . . . The Rhine maidens, buxom Bavarian lasses all, were swung, as Wagner directed, by wires attached...
Fricka's flock of real goats, Wotan's ravens, Siegfried's bear and toad...
...program traversed Tschaikowsky's Pathetique Symphony and the Prelude and Liebestod from "Tristan and Isolde"; the assisting artists were Mme. Antoinette Szumowska, who played the Second Chopin Concerto, and Mr. Joseph Schwarz who sang arias from Haendel's "Israel in Egypt" and Verdi's "Ballo in Masshera" and "Wotan's Abschied" from "Die Walkuere...
...evening in Symphony Hall is as follows: 1. Overture to "The Sicilian Vespers" Verdi 2. Waltz, "Vienna Bonbons" Strauss 3. Deep River Burleigh-Jacchia 4. Fantasia, "L'Oracolo" Leoni 5. Prelude and Siciliana from "Cavalleria Rusticana" Mascagni 6. Turkish Patrol Michaelis 7. Sextet from "Lucia di Lammermoor" Donizetti 8. Wotan's Farewell and Fire Scene, "The Valkyrie" Wagner 9. "The Shamrock," Selection of Irish Airs Myddleton 10. Panamericana Herbert 11. Bacchanale from "Philemon et Baucis" Gounod
...over. There is much brave fighting to be done before the German will be driven over the Rhine. The Wotan line is yet unbent by the hammer of Thor...