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It was to be Wagner's last completed opera and in composing it he took advantage of the particular acoustics of his Bayreuth Festspielhaus.
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He didn't think it was possible for this couple to be pretending.
Evidently this was a precaution so that mounts would be available in an emergency.
He might tell her how sorry a spectacle she was making of herself, pretending to be blind to the way Julia Fortune had taken Dean's affections from her.
It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.
The coyote was calling again, and he hoped that this time there would be no other sounds to interrupt it.
Its front was windowless, but irregularities in the masonry might be an indication that windows, now blinded, had once looked out upon the street.
She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.
Having persisted too long in deliberate ignorance and denial of the forces that threatened her, Pamela was relieved now to admit their potency and to be taking definite steps toward grappling with them.
she must be poised and proud and unafraid in order to prove to the mountain that she was in earnest.
There was a peculiar density about it, a thick substance that could be sensed but never identified, never actually perceived.
The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.
It was to be nothing more than that.
There was to be no gunplay.
If you don't leave this country within 3 days, your life will be taken the same as Powell's was.
Probably his horse would be close to where he was hiding.
Carmer himself was nowhere to be seen.
There was a feeling that this mission would be canceled like all the others and that this muddy wet dark world of combat would go on forever.
Visibility continued to be limited, and Greg was never able to get above a thousand feet.
It was going to be dangerous.
Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.
Over the rapidly-diminishing outline of a jump seat piled high with luggage Herry's black brushcut was just discernible, near, or enviably near that spot where -- hidden -- more delicately-textured, most beautifully tinted hair must still be streaming back in cool, oh cool wind sweetly perfumed with sagebrush and yucca flowers and engine fumes.
Mrs. Roebuck thought Johnson was a `` sweet bawh t'lah lahk thet '', but her Herman was getting to be a man, there was no getting around it.
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Schweitzer saw many operas of Richard Wagner at Straßburg ( under Otto Lohse ), and in 1896 he pulled together the funds to visit Bayreuth to see Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen and Parsifal, and was deeply affected.
To many Germans, the expression " stab in the back " was evocative of Richard Wagner's 1876 opera Götterdämmerung, in which Hagen murders his enemy Siegfried with a spear in his back.
Sanskrit priyā " beloved ") and was known among many northern European cultures with slight name variations over time: e. g. Friggja in Sweden, Frīg ( genitive Frīge ) in Old English, and Fricka in Richard Wagner's operatic cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.
With the exception of Otello and Aida, it is said that he was free of Wagner's influence.
Although Wagner became fiercely critical of Brahms as the latter grew in stature and popularity, he was enthusiastically receptive of the early Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel ; Brahms himself, according to many sources ( Swafford, 1999 ), deeply admired Wagner's music, confining his ambivalence only to the dramaturgical precepts of Wagner's theory.
Although the " Arthur of romance " was sometimes central to these new Arthurian works ( as he was in Burne-Jones's The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon, 1881 – 1898 ), on other occasions he reverted back to his medieval status and is either marginalised or even missing entirely, with Wagner's Arthurian operas providing a notable instance of the latter.
Between 1940 and 1947, he was a contributor to Rob Wagner's film magazine, Script.
Eisenstein returned to teaching and was assigned to direct Richard Wagner's Die Walküre at the Bolshoi Theatre.
Hermann Ritter's ' viola alta ', which measured about, was intended for use in Wagner's operas.
In 2011 he was selected to stage the 2013 cycle of Richard Wagner's Ring der Nibelungen at the Bayreuth Festival, a reflection of his capacity to produce imaginative tributes to great works of art.
Kandinsky was similarly influenced during this period by Richard Wagner's Lohengrin which, he felt, pushed the limits of music and melody beyond standard lyricism.
These years were some of Wagner's most difficult: the 1861 Paris production of Tannhäuser was a fiasco, Wagner gave up hope of completing Der Ring des Nibelungen, the 1864 Vienna production of Tristan und Isolde was abandoned after 77 rehearsals, and finally in 1866 Wagner's first wife, Minna died.
Despite these problems, the premiere was a triumph, and the opera was hailed as one of Wagner's most successful works.
Wagner's experience of Paris was also disastrous.
The performance on 9 November was attended by Giuseppe Verdi, who annotated a copy of the vocal score with his impressions and opinions of Wagner ( this was almost certainly his first exposure to Wagner's music ).
The legend was made famous in modern times through Richard Wagner's three-act opera Tannhäuser, completed in 1845.
Eventually it became a Bayreuth tradition that no applause would be heard after the first act, but this was certainly not Wagner's idea.
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That girl last night, what was her name??
At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.
Now, he could only play the last card in what was probably the world's coldest deck.
It was practically the last move that McBride made of his own volition.
Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.
Greg's mission was the last to leave, and as he circled the ships off Tacloban he saw the clouds were dropping down again.
My last impression as they led him off to a stockade was of his pale face
Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.
Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.
The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.
The Rooseveltian America was a haven of liberalism and progress and seemed to him to constitute the last best hope for civilization.
It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.
Incidentally, there was an Atlas firing last night.
Fortunately the hole was found at last and plugged.
At last they concluded that the heavy, full feeling in their stomachs was due to lack of exercise.
The last point was soon to be included in the `` seditious '' remarks used against him in Parliament.
It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.
Trevelyan's Manin And The Venetian Revolution Of 1848, his last major volume on an Italian theme, was written in a minor key.
He had braved the elements and the enemy, but the strain, aided by the winter, was catching up with him at last.
`` This whole Washington venture was my last gesture, and it has failed.
Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.
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