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...Not quite connected to British politics but if I can shoehorn that in one relevant link, I too have been writing about it this week only in the sense that the British government is about to proscribe the Wagner...
...She’s a sports-fearing bookworm whose spirits are gradually lifted by Wagner and her German teacher’s approval....
...More recent film projects, such as the stage performances of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde with video art by Bill Viola, have been more experimental, but not necessarily better....
...Edison himself drew sharp boundaries between high and low forms of music as he experimented with the technology: he found listening to waltzes over and over intolerable, while the music of Beethoven and Wagner...
...The festivities began with a shimmering performance of the Lohengrin prelude, a nice nod to Wagner on the occasion of his 200th birthday....
...He and his designer, Michael Levine, have purged Wagner’s opera of any 19th-century German Romanticism....
...If there is one cultural investment made by the BBC that everybody agrees is worth every penny, here it is: 76 concerts over eight weeks, plus chamber music events and open-air extravaganzas around the country...
...Delis are two a penny....
...The previous deal involving a specialist was Barclay’s acquisition of the designated market making rights of Bear Wagner Specialists LLC in March 2009....
...The conductor, Lawrence Renes, gives Adams’s always involving music its head and Penny Woolcock’s production is as striking as the material allows....
...In its 12 years of existence, Grange Park Opera’s turnover has ballooned to £3m, not a penny of which comes from the taxpayer....
...This summer’s varied programme does not look like it has been subjected to penny-pinching....
...With their picturesque depictions of small-town life, Evans believed that the “honest direct little pictures” on penny postcards played a vital, often neglected role in documenting early 20th-century America...
...A Wagner strand, relatively new to the Sussex Downs, continues with Meistersinger in 2011. “It will be the biggest thing we have ever done....
...Where great Wagnerians tread with awe and majesty, Antonio Pappano can be a penny-plain conductor, but he guides the musical narrative with a strong hand....
...It was the year when, for classical musicians, the penny finally dropped. Don’t expect to make money out of recordings. Look on them as a marketing tool. And so the in-house label came of age....
...It regularly overlooks the most imaginative Wagner interpreters....
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