Word: wagnerian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like the Italian Toscanini, the Russian Stokowski chose German music. Like Toscanini with his Beethoven, Stokowski has always had unseen powers over Brahms' First Symphony. Brahms then, followed by worthy excerpts from the Wagnerian Ring made of his first concert a surging translucent affair...
...Berlin, Michael Bohnen, most currently famed Wagnerian basso, announced that he was "sick and tired" of opera, said the public is tired of it too. He, who has rarely sung twice with the same makeup, is tired of the beards of Hans Sachs, Wotan, Hagen, King Mark. He has signed a contract to make sound-cinemas, believes that "everyone will soon be running to the cinema to take their music in this new form." In Chicago Louis Eckstein wrote a check for $103,458.50, half the deficit of the Ravinia Opera so that an ardently enthusiastic Chicago public might continue...
Died. Lilli Lehmann, 80, famed Wagnerian singer; in Berlin...
...shadow fell over Bayreuth last week. From Berlin came news that she who had learned the music-drama gospel from the lips of the master, she who had created Isolde in America, she who had been called the greatest of Wagnerian singers, was gone. Lilli Lehmann was dead...
...Baudelaire, the tormented Catholic Satanist, sometimes achieved in poetry grandeur that: was Wagnerian. In French literature his niche will eventually be tha of his kinspirit Poe in English. Once Baudelaire wrote "Yesterday I felt the wing of imbecility brush me." It was also perhaps the tip of the wing of greatness...