European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse Stark tristan we it Charod re tic of modern Wagner staging. Wieland Wagner i right explain role to Roclor in "fldello.1 overture to by Richard h. Growald up staff foil Moniti ii Century Cimpl Aei has swi it it Amin Tel i to head the memory and the music of Litchi and wag Ner. But Hie Randi air of i iniimi1 Ahi i ii tins prevailed and i Cindy a Voitl. Germany tin Citadel it u Opi a celebrates tin Iri he Nunu usury of the master s Imelli. Wagner is r pc Conlin i in in Fin Many and on the anniversary of his birth nil Chi. 000 residents of the bavarian Mountain town scene each year of a Vagner festival. Will share in paying him tribute. Descend ants of the composer will take part in the main Public ceremony. But to Ltd real tribute win come later during the nine week opera festival starting june 24. For Many years wagnerian music and he memory of the composer himself a Vita cast in the Shadow by associations with Hitler Germany. Adolf Hitler himself was passionately fond of Warner s music. His fiery eyes could dim mistely with emotion when an orchestra roared into the March from folklore myths and gods of Vigner s Opi Ralh world Liv a again in Hitler s Pagan philosophy. Sieg Fried wan to Hitler a Good nazi. Wagner s daughter in Law Winifred who manned the Bayreuth Wagner i Hli Viil until world War ii temporarily halted the shows recalled that Hitler first came to Bayreuth in 1923 to hold a meeting and stayed for the music. He then was just u Young dynamic Man and we thought potty Lily the one to Lead Germany out of its mrs wag Ner recalled. He liked to slay at our guest House. He enjoyed it. The festivals were near to his heart. His interest in them endeared him to me. Hitler never returned to Bayreuth after 2940, things i have Learned since have deeply shocked me. He must have gone completely insane in those last four years Richard Wagner in 1855. Wednesday May 22, 1963 the stars and stripes of his life. Hut i Ink a him As a kind Noiin another Vic tier in Laid i san in his Houston St it Chamberlain prot Hotton championing Superman i Hitiris. Tut la a it a nun if Jim e Gnu nor meant to Ninny i Hitler i lid set to Musk. Hut criticism of Nunet inn music came on a Leslic grounds too. Ii. I. It Nikon the late american writer summed up one Case against the old fashioned. Al King Helim a and Kippar carry Zitti my of a gift Oieni Ujick he Ivr olt Wagner s defect is that he is often the nor local. And hence a mount Bank. I Seldom go to the opera it is to music what u Bawdy House is to a Cathedral. The spec Tacle of fat women sweating with thir m out hit wide open. Is very offensive but at the same time the Sage of Baltimore could write that Wagner s musical ideas were so Good they were i Mencken once commented that die me Untersinger often judged Wagner s masterpiece opera is the great est single work of Urt Ever produced Ukiu maps it is the measure of wan Ner .1 music that by Mode uni in us Ken gang the composer s grandchildren Winifred s sons we land and Wolfgang have done much to re popularize it. Yet their modern at Ion Campaign also has stirred a grand operatic War. As Wagner ans and Antl Wugin Fibann alike Ull Pat Vafi incr i music is like no one else s. Where else is such an olympian thump As in Tun nonuser or the choral magic of die me 1sterslrigor" or the pus Sion Are christianity of the Good Friday music in "parsifal."? but even under such gifted Batons As those of Wilhelm fur Waengler and Arluro toss unlit Many music lovers have found Wagner s music or much of it. Heavy going. Recognizing this a number of latter Day stage conductors have Cut their length. A Leland Wagner got on the streamlining bandwagon with both feet when he look Over the Bayreuth Wagner after the War. In fad. Wit land staged u revolution. Itu shoved off the stage All the fun s Sci . Tiit Viking helmets Tho it raking swim boats tin curse led 2i Pliml ii Iii a sin Iii i nun c
