Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Isolde WAGNER...
...which that classmate of mine is devouring it. There is a charm in a hall like this; and the worthies who look down upon one from the walls are inspiring, - all of them, from the driest, pickled old Puritan, to the gallant young Colonel who fell at Wagner. There is richness in that gorgeous window, - but stop! the national bird done in colored glass, and holding his wings like a fowl in distress, is decidedly out of place there, if a Freshman might venture an opinion; he should have been all blue glass. Patriotic emblems are excellent in their proper...
...article in the May Atlantic entitled "The Wagner Music-Drama" was written by Mr. Henry T. Finck...
...sufficient evidence of its intrinsic merit; the first and third movements being particularly beautiful. The adagio was received with unmistakable enthusiasm; and at the end the audience insisted on calling Mr. Paine before the house. Although written in strict conformity with the dogmas of the classical school, traces of Wagner's all-pervading influence were noticeable in the first movement (allegro con brio), and in the last (allegro vivace). We should certainly take pride in the success of our Professor in a branch of art so rarely attempted by Anglo-Saxon genius...
...Chorus of Pilgrims, from "Tannhauser". . . . . WAGNER...