Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic Senator Thomas C. Hennings, started off an investigation of juvenile delinquency, with two days of hearings in Manhattan on what the Federal Government could do to help combat teen-age violence. Hennings & Co. heard plenty of suggestions-from Governor Nelson Rockefeller, New York's Mayor Robert Wagner, an assortment of city officials-but it was all pretty familiar, e.g., the Federal Government ought to curb interstate shipments of firearms, give the cities more money for youth programs...
Double Entry. In Charles City, Iowa, the Press ran a classified ad: "I will not be responsible for any debts other than my own. Kenneth Wagner, Nashua"; next day ran a followup: "I've paid all his bills. There's none left to pay. Mrs. Kenneth Wagner...
What started him singing again was Los Angeles' Roger Wagner Chorale, the West Coast equivalent of Manhattan's Robert Shaw Chorale. For fun, Oliver began singing with the group. One day Dr. Hugo Strelitzer, a well-known voice coach, heard him and made it his business to train that powerful voice...
...proof was Threni. Since then, Oliver has scored other successes singing four Mozart arias with the Santa Monica Symphony, and as Zuniga in the Hollywood Bowl's Carmen. He takes as many as five lessons each week, is now being trained by Strelitzer to sing all of Wagner's bass roles. Oliver insists that he will not turn professional. But he knows that most bassos do not reach their peak until their mid-40s and admits that the idea is attractive. Says he: "There is a great temptation when you have that feeling of raw power over...
Less rare than any of these items, but never before recorded in full, is Das Rheingold, Wagner's thunder-throated masterpiece, presented by London (3 LPs, mono and stereo) in a superb performance. Conductor Georg Solti leads the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra with anvil-stroking power; Kirsten Flagstad sings with serene beauty; and George London's Wotan towers with granitic strength. The majestically rolling accompaniment of the gods' procession to Valhalla is sure to lift almost any listener out of his seat...