Word: niebelungenlied
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...phrases. Their appearance in the music tells the listener what the protagonists are thinking about, what they intend to do, where they came from, what their destiny is. To the inexperienced operagoer, Wagner's orchestra merely sounds; but to the seasoned Wagnerite it talks. Of Der Ring des Niebelungen, cautious Manhattan Critic Lawrence Gilman recently wrote: "Not only the hugest thing that was ever attempted by the creative will; it is also, in the ultimate sense of the word, the greatest...
...mural completed last spring entitled "The Ring of the Niebelungen" represents the dwarf ruler Alberich whipping his workers in order to speed up their creation of destructive wealth, symbolized by the Ring forged from the Rhine gold. The artist is here attempting to present the struggle between creative science and material greed, not, as some one tried to interpret it, a comparison between the treatment of regimented and unregimented workers in contemporary Germany. At the left of the main part of the mural, Alberich's hand tries to grasp the Rhine gold, reaching up from sea-green water, while maidens...
...music that is not just a grunt, is sounded in orchestras by the contrabassoon or the contrabass tuba. Beethoven used the big woodwind in his Ninth Symphony. Haydn in his Creation, Brahms in his First Symphony. Wagner used the mighty mouthed tuba to plumb the murky depths of his Niebelungen Ring...
...mystic number was responsible. 1914's digits add up to 15. Fifteen means Jehovah, ergo the War was a Jewish conspiracy. The Jews organized the Sarajevo murder. Fortunately, the good old Aryan race instincts prevented the Jewish plot from succeeding. . . . Germany must go back to the good old Niebelungen religion. The ancient Teutons did not pray, but commanded their gods...
...night by Professor Clay, on "Assyrian and Babylonian Art." Among the lectures of importance that have been arranged for the coming week are the first two lectures by Professor Von Der Leyen, the German Exchange Professor from the University of Munich, who is to deliver a series on the "Niebelungen Ring." Professor Kuno Francke, head of the Harvard German Faculty, is to deliver lectures at Yale in the near future under the auspices of "The Deutsche Vereingun...