Word: wagnerians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alec Goodrich is a tawny-eyed, well-heeled, philandering novelist. He lives in a wild part of Wales surrounded by "strange, Wagnerian scenery" and with the loud Atlantic roaring on his doorstep. He defies the Inspector (and shocks Harold) by traveling first-class with a third-class ticket and investing his money, his sacred money, in absurd companies...
...henchman Goebbels, the defection of those who fattened on the blood he had spilled, the last-minute marriage with his blowzy mistress Eva Braun, the suicide pact they made together, and the final dispatch of their bodies to Valhalla in the flames of a funeral pyre wrote a tawdry Wagnerian finish to the evil story...
Stop the Train. The Hudson River school suffered from a passion for the picturesque. Cole's The Pass Called "The Notch of the White Mountains" is a brilliant picture marred by Wagnerian theatrics and stage lighting. Asher Durand's White Mountain Scenery, Franconia Notch sacrifices sharpness to size. He assumed such a grand scene should be painted in the grand manner; the result is sentimental, vague and declamatory. Perhaps the poets of the age did such artists more harm than good; told that nature was simply grand, painters inclined to view her through a haze...
...music critics are remembered at all by posterity, it is usually for having been notably wrong in their judgments. A case in point: Eduard Hanslick (1825-1904), 19th century Europe's most renowned and most recalcitrant critic, who for 40 years mercilessly shredded Wagnerian operas, won painful immortality when Wagner wrote him into Meistersinger as the waspish Beckmesser. But perhaps the most remarkable music critic of all time, a man who later made his mark in wider literary fields, was George Bernard Shaw. A new selection from his weekly criticisms for London's The Star and The World...
Bayreuth's Wagner. By comparison with Salzburg's blaze, Bayreuth was authoritative but monochromatic. The latest style for Wagnerian opera, as set by the composer's grandsons Wieland and Wolf gang Wagner (TIME, Aug. 13, 1951, et seq. features a stage in semidarkness, moonlit landscapes, symmetrical crowd scenes and stark emphasis on the polarities of heaven and earth, man and woman, light and darkness, life and death. With their productions of all of Wagner's major works unveiled in previous seasons, the producers this time tried their hand at the youthful but never completely successful Flying...