Word: wagnerian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lawitz Melchior, Danish tenor, six feet high. Once his voice was baritone, but like Jean de Reszke's, it grew higher-He will sing Wagnerian roles...
...John. The chorals were excellently sung in a score which has never been popular in the U. S. On the third day, Frederick Stock, conductor of the Chicago Symphony, conducted his own Symphonic Variations-a sound, scholarly piece of uninspired craftsmanship. Florence Austral, Australian soprano who has sung Wagnerian rôles in London, resoundingly delivered Brahms' Requiem. On the fourth day, Pierné's St. Francis of Assis furnished Tenor Edward Johnson an opportunity to demonstrate that an intelligent singer can make even inherently poor music impressive. The school children sang their difficult music with precision...
...critics have other ideas and make other demands. Schooled in Wagnerian traditions, they want action, and plenty...
...least one hearing. The complete Ring cycle was presented: Rheingold, Siegfried, Walküre, Götterdammerung, also Parsifal and Meistersinger. All has been carried out in strictest accordance with the traditions established under old King Ludwig's patronage in the ancient golden Wagnerian days. Not a note was "cut" from any of the enormous scores; no concessions were made to the limits of human patience on the part of the audiences. Richard Wagner 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...
...said that Josef Stansky former conductor for the Philharmonic orchestra of New York, who had become the chief conductor of the Wagnerian company, likewise lost a considerable sum which he had advanced to keep the troupe going...