How To Use Wagner In A Sentence
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he studied the entire Wagnerian oeuvre
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There was, of course, a vast amount of music in the U.S. in this period besides symphonic music, Lutheran hymnody, and Wagnerian opera.
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In this respect he forms the link between Wagner and Schoenberg, who was soon to complete the destruction of classical tonal harmony.
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Everywhere in the 19th century students of folklore itself a newly invented word plumped up their local legends, sagas and fairy tales just as much as Jacob Grimm and Richard Wagner did in Germany.
Hitler's Golden Book
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Wagner's Arthurian librettos were translated into Catalonian by such writers as Ana D' Ax.
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Among the collection's highlights are the double slide contrabass trombone which inspired Wagner to write for the instrument in his Ring Cycle, a crystal glass flute and an early euphonium.
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He sang in choirs, played at balls and weddings and baptisms, made "arrangements" for anybody who would employ him, and in short drudged very much as Wagner did at the outset of his tempestuous career.
Joseph Haydn
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To the untrained ear, the Wagnerian clarinet sounds almost identical to its more modern cousin.
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Annie Wagner in the Stranger: As a movie, Diggers is affable and lazy - its purpose obscured by a swarm of clichés.
GreenCine Daily: Diggers.
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What the Wagnerite calls rhythmical is what I call, to use a Greek metaphor,
The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.
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Wagner's opera will be telecast internationally.
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The Penitent Wagnerite: "some safe, undecisive sic pc mush mouth ...
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The man's lawyer told Muller he had a Honus Wagner card in a safe-deposit box.
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L.st year, University of Connecticut science professor David L. Wagner noted a two-year precipitous decline in the number of northern metalmark butterflies in counts conducted in Falls Village.
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This evening, though, Davis will make his debut in the orchestra pit at Richard Wagner's Bayreuth festival theatre in Bavaria, conducting the composer's 1850 work, Lohengrin.
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Of course, many who start out driving only on the weekends find it difficult to temper their enthusiasm, says Steven Wagner, a founding partner of Autobahn Country Club in Joliet, Ill. If you liked this story, read:
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My pal Wagner James Au is a pro games writer who's working now as an "embedded reporter" (heh) at a games startup, chronicling the developments in the world of a new massively multiplayer game.
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Mr. Wagner , do you HAs a hotel reservation?
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Bloomingdale's: Wagner of Switzerland Pen with built-in flashlight, blade, letter opener, nail file, clip, scissors, and screwdriver for $8.39 + $6 s&h (it says $13.99 but it falls to $8.39 after you add it to your cart)
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The programme opened with the overture to Wagner's Flying Dutchman.
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Rudolph Wagner, whom no man will accuse of progressionist proclivities, has raised his voice on the same side; while not a single anatomist, great or small, has supported Professor Owen.
Lectures and Essays
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Wolfgang Wagner, who disinherited his brother's children and his own son to leave Bayreuth in the hands of two rival daughters, Eva and Katharina, was the last grandchild to be dandled on Cosima's meddlesome knee.
Keeper Of the Shrine
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The relative simplicity of the style, combined with its ability to incorporate in some abstracted manner more traditional architectonic elements -- Wagner's work incorporates clear if modified references to everything from Byzantine to Baroque -- renders it particularly useful for modern church-building, especially when budgets are a concern; there is less of the risk of the finished product appearing, in some sense, undercooked, when key decorative elements are removed due to monetary constraints.
Jugendstil
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WAGNER: He became a different -- he was one of those what they refer to as shanty Irish.
CNN Transcript Aug 3, 2002
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The auction of the card got over last week only. The T206 baseball card features Wagner in his teens clad in Pittsburgh Pirates uniform.
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In the same way Wagner was a mere continuator of Weber in Lohengrin and
Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions
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The largest and most important was the book on Wagner, which he had been working on and thinking about for many years and which in his own mind he saw as the work that would be his defining contribution to musicology.
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His family lost their fortune in the inflationary crash of 1923, and Wagner-Régeny was forced to earn his living working as a ballet répétiteur at the Grosse Volksoper, Berlin, as well as playing the piano in nightclubs and cinemas.
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Actress Lindsay Wagner revealed her recipe to combat jet lag: Epsom salts and baking soda poured into a hot bath.
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In the interval Sutcliffe spent some time trying to imagine what sort of a figure the boyfriend of the Wagnerian Helga could be.
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The interjacent eight mayors, and the number of years they served, are O'Dwyer - 5, Impellitteri - 3, Wagner - 12, Lindsay - 8, Beame - 4, Koch - 12, Dinkins - 4 and Giuliani - 8.
Henry J. Stern: They're Off!
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Fans of the stuff are masonically loyal, prickling with a defensiveness and an ardor that not even Wagnerians can match.
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Still, his aficionado's enthusiasm for Wagner's operas numbs him to the sensitivities and dilemmas of others.
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And once Wonder Woman and Bionic Woman--and I actually just saw Linday Wagner in Palm Springs and we used to be really great friends and we kind of rekindled our friendship when she came to hear me sing in Palm Springs.
Fabio Periera: Ten Minutes with: Lynda Carter
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… On the other hand, it must be obvious, that when Circe’s unfortunate animals are induced to worship chastity, all they see and _worship_ therein, is their opposite — oh! and with what tragic groaning and fervour, may well be imagined — that same painful and thoroughly superfluous opposition which, towards the end of his life, Richard Wagner undoubtedly wished to set to music and to put on the stage, _And to what purpose?
The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.
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If one ventures to wonder whether Haitink has the quicksilver mind necessary for Mozart, it is only because his Verdi and Wagner were superlative.
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Dove made this adaptation several years ago, for the use of smaller British touring opera companies, and it is the perfect solution for a smaller city's opera company that wants to produce Wagner's great tetralogy.
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Chausson spent much of his short life - he died in a bicycle accident when he was 44 - assimilating Wagner's music while trying not to imitate it.
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Loud, Wagnerian (she by now has learned to recognize) opera.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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I do not remember that they were molested, even by the guns of General Wagner, who had been foolishly posted with two small brigades across the turnpike, a half-mile in our front, where he was needless for apprisal and powerless for resistance.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1
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Wagner had fled from Dresden just a few weeks before Hugo had left Stuttgart, and both had taken the route to Paris via Switzerland.
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The impersonator had convincingly imitated Mr da Silva's husky voice and informal style, but Ms Wagner became concerned about the tone and content of the interview.
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Everything from the thunderous Wagnerian music to the performers' skin-tight unitards and birdlike headdresses reinforces the show's sleek, aerial character.
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That, alone, which has to be guarded against is the falsity, the instinctive duplicity which _would fain_ regard this antithesis as no antithesis at all: just as Wagner did, — and his mastery in this kind of falseness was of no mean order.
The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.
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Wagner calls his program 'the worst talk show in America,' without a hint of irony.
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Wagner has lately published an interesting essay on this subject.
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Before Freud or Jung, Wagner's five-hour-long saga depicted an archetypal journey to self-knowledge.
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Put together, the film becomes Gesamtkunstwerk at the level of Wagner's Nibelungen cycle or Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy: a total, totally absorbing work of art that delights and also exercises the senses, the cortical emotions, the intellect - and achieves this feat without loudly advertising its intent or, for that matter, its artsiness.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The Andreadis Unibrow Theory of Art
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Even if you don't fish, check out these beauties at the J.D. Wagner web page.
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It was no longer a question of pink slips, trials, excommunications, since the aborted scandal of Parsifal: no one had lost face - especially not the proud and vindicative director - but Wolfgang Wagner had won.
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Also on this military subject, Wagner also brags on a long string of military units he has taught around the world, one such harping is on
Heroes or Villains?
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The Wagnerian _leit-motif_ idea is adopted in this and other works of his, and the chief objection to his writing is its too great fidelity to the Wagnerian manner, -- notably in the use of suspensions and passing-notes, -- otherwise he is a very powerful harmonist and an instrumenter of rare sophistication.
Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
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In addition, Wagner is also quite explicit in describing his eloquent orchestra as having a role, in its commentary on the action, as equivalent to that of the chorus in Greek drama.
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It crams in numerological and musical symbolism, and includes quotations from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde and Zemlinsky's Lyric Symphony.
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He portrays Wagner as the great antipode to himself, what he might have become if he had not had the strength to realize what dangers were involved in being a fully-fledged Romantic.
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The expanded orchestra, with added bass trumpet, contra bass trombone, special Wagner tubas and five harps which give this work its distinctive timbre, at turns scintillating and louring, played with admirable finesse.
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Fellow owner Dr Rachel Wagner said: "Most of the ones that are really tiny are what we call dwarves and they have some sort of dysmorphic features, or features that aren't really normal or healthy.
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Conductor Alan Gilbert's approach was large-scale and Wagnerian, with an orchestral sound that stressed power rather than delicacy and often covered the voices, making it difficult to distinguish the text an English translation by Norman Tucker without relying on the supertitles.
The Beauty of the Beasts
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Nietzsche's musical attitudes remained more or less constant until the summer of 1868, when the conversion to Wagner began.
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And if, as those men - Robert Wagner (her husband), Christopher Walken and the captain - claimed, she had been disturbed by a banging dinghy, why would Natalie and not the captain go out on a stormy night to retie it?
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Wagner, Mahler and Sibelius all used tonality and key centres to powerful ends, and the blaze of A major must have meant a great deal to Messiaen.
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Wagner, in retreat from pursuing creditors and political enemies, was one.
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Mr. Skelton is likewise at home with the heavy-duty Wagnerian repertoire, having won critical acclaim in such roles as "Siegmund
San Francisco Sentinel
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Wagner had climbed up the greasy pole doggedly, and methodically.
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The twelfth century had the audacity of its passions, and Wagner at times talks almost plain twelfth century language. —
Unlikely music critic of the day (literally)
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Opera mavens head to Milan for Verdi, Bayreuth for Wagner.
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they say that Hitler listened only to Wagner
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The House version also eliminates a Senate ban on "swaption" investments at all stage agencies, which [House transportation chair Joseph] Wagner said may have been too sweeping.
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She has announced plans to "popularise" what to many are the impenetrable scores of Wagner pieces, envisaging giant TV screens and even podcasts.
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Big awards, thankfully, don't always go to big ensembles, but there's a long way to go before a couple of perfect minutes of lapidary precision and ineffable depth can hope to compete on equal terms with a Wagnerian stem-winder. posted by Matthew @ 10: 00 PM
Not long for this world
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Although Jarnot delayed his arrival to Washington by two days to combat the flu, vocal coarseness was seldom heard in his full program of songs by Wagner, Liszt, and Duparc.
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Simon O'Neill's voice is almost reedy enough to be authentically French, and he is mostly successful at coping with the score's Wagnerian demands without heaviness.
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These "very long melodies" do not seem to have been the melismata which we find in the Gregorian Chant, and which in St. Gall were not longer than elsewhere, but special melodies probably imported about that time from Greece (Wagner, op. cit.,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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Wagner's ingeniousness with plot is matched by his cleverness with the recherché literary conceits - little touches that you can't help admiring, like statues in a boxwood maze, even as you hurry past.
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He saw the consummate art and artificiality of Wagner, and preferred it to all other music, at a time when the German master was ignored and despised by a classicized musical world.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4
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Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" is one of the consummate masterpieces of German opera.
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In spite of an intellectual appreciaton of the Wagner/Strauss influence in Elgar's mucic my own Elgar-England link was forged when I was about fourteen or so.
Sticking up for Edu
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Claude Debussy Paris, France, 1902This sensuous, Symbolist tragedy in 12 tableaux marks a radical departure: instead of arias and set pieces, the text is declaimed, inspired by Wagner, over an ever-moving orchestration.
Top 50 operas
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That's how opera fans go about their business, collecting wayside works for the inevitable Wagnerian longueurs.
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Wagner was a Nazi supporter. Nevertheless, he is an important part of musical history.
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One does hear a combination of Puccini and Wagner - a smooth Italian lyricism with a touch of Wagnerian harmonic spice.
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The Mets put it to the Dodgers and the old Bosox ragtimer Derrick Lowe he was coming off 7 wins in a row this afternoon at Shea, 6-5, though it looked shaky there for awhile when Mr. Mota came in in relief and gave up the tying runs to the Dodgers--4-4; and it looked bad when the Dodgers scored another run in the ninth; though the Mets kept it, with Billy Wagner doing his job and finally putting it away.
Baseball Is in New York Air
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[Jan. 18th, 2009 | 12: 19 pm] [Tags | books into movies, christopher hinz, comics into movies, david drake, david weber, harry turtledove, joe haldeman, matt wagner] "The Forlorn Hope" by David Drake -- It holds a special place in my heart because its the first Drake book I ever read and the first story I ever really wanted to see made into a movie.
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We recently covered the application of Jugendstil (sometimes also called Sezession) style motifs to church vestments, but the style's most permanent monuments lie in its architecture, in the work of men such as Otto Wagner and his colleagues and disciples, as well as his sometime collaborator, the decorative artist Koloman Moser.
Otto Wagner and His School
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To the outsider, Bamberg looks as if the set for the second act of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg had come to chocolate-box life, especially in the crisp winter weather that greets me when I arrive.
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You could do worse than listening to the broadcasts of the complete cycle of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, as I did this past Saturday, with the first opera of the tetralogy, Das Rheingold.
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Wagner's company, which produces a range of high-technology devices, including cardiographs and patient monitors, expects computers to revolutionize the way medical device manufacturers support customer training efforts.
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Everything from the thunderous Wagnerian music to the performers' skin-tight unitards and birdlike headdresses reinforces the show's sleek, aerial character.
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Since 1976, when Einstein on the Beach, written with the composer Philip Glass, was performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Robert Wilson has acquired a reputation as an all-around showman, a hip, Texan Wagner who produces enormous, expensive 'intermedia' spectacles in Europe and is followed by swooning disciples and donors.
Lovely to Look At
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Lutheran chorales were so often the basis of Bach's counterpoint, and Wagner devised for his Nuremberg mastersingers a counterpoint that was both traditional and contemporary.
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In Wagner's opera Parsifal the trauma of parricide is there in the background, but is unconscious.
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I had a fantasy that it was off to drive round the local council estate with the windows wound down and Wagner booming out of the woofers.
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There is no such excuse for ABC’s Private Practice, a spinoff of Grey’s Anatomy, which is also on tonight and supposedly offers a postfeminist sensibility that is more playful and palatable than the overearnest women’s lib of the Lindsay Wagner generation.
Wednesday
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With "Tristan und Isolde," Wagner fully abandoned opera's separate arias and ensembles for what he called the "endless melody" of his new form, music drama.
At the Ravinia Festival, A Liszt of Subtle Works
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Elaine Wagner bumps the car door shut with her hip, her arms full with her purse and a shopping bag almost overflowing with used paperbacks.
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Beethoven's six Gellert lieder were hobbled by bad intonation, while the cautious note-to-note rendition of Wagner's Wesendonk songs lacked any sense of their sensuous wonder.
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Multimedia ultimately makes its own best counterargument by choosing an inaugural address by Wagner.
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Wagner, Orie, Turzai and several other lawmakers from both parties in the Senate and House are drafting legislation to create a new tax package for Pittsburgh.
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From "Bach on Wood" (a marimba, that is) and Vivaldi on the Japanese Koto, to Schubert on a wood-cutting saw and Wagner on power tools, dozens of classical composers have been subjected to strange arrangements.
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Elaine Wagner's mezzo voice sounds weary, but she's laughing a little - at his expense, no doubt.
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Before arrival, Masson says, Wagner always calls in a special request for one of his favorites, blanquette de veau, a veal stew.
Miracle on 52nd Street
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There is a misconception here, since Wagner's practice was rather to use such unstable sonorities to enhance the music's eventual arrival at points of tonal clarity and consonant harmonic stability.
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To be present at Indiana University for the world premiere of Vincent, a powerfully affecting opera by composer Bernard Rands and librettist J. D. McClatchy, is to remember again why Wagner insisted that "the highest perfection is reserved for the musically arranged drama.
Benjamin R. Barber: World Premiere of Bernard Rands' Opera Vincent at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music
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Looking at the programme, the more unusual instruments included Alto Flute, Bass Flute, E flat clarinet, bass clarinet, contra bass clarinet, contra bassoon, Wagner Tubas, bass trombone, euphonium, pianino, celeste and cymbalom.
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Gilchrist and Wagner are coordinating both full-length post-sequencing analysis, and clone selection.
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Valved horns were permitted, in the light of Wagner's own equivocation about them, joining those valved horn hybrids known as Wagner tubas.
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If you read his late essays, especially the volume of essays called Religion and Art, you see that Wagner is involved in antivivisection societies, animal rights, the whole notion of suffering in the world.
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Such speeches do not belong to the novice of the preceding drama, but to the original Siegfried's Tod, with its leading characters sketched on the ordinary romantic lines from the old Sagas, and not yet reminted as the original creations of Wagner's genius whose acquaintance we have made on the two previous evenings.
The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring
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Wagner's 1890 mahogany collector's cabinet combines the profile of an 18th-century breakfront with inset panels of Japanese cloisonné that evoke 1880s English Aestheticism.
Modernism's Austrian Rebels
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Wagner went in a different direction, starting a foundation for underprivileged kids.
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Put Emmanuel's cinematography alongside Wagner's "Vorspiel" and you have one of the most beautiful, heartbreaking and tender moments of the decade.
Design of a Decade: The Greatest Hits of the '00s - Part V
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All of this unusual vocalizing is accompanied by an abstract video installation that created sort of an ironic contrasting effect to the video accompaniment Bill Viola has developed for Wagner’s music just across the street.
Archive 2007-04-01
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The germ of his falling-out with his beloved Wagner lay in his growing awareness of Wagner's personal ignobility and malevolence.
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Borchmeyer's book indeed provides an excellent introduction to Wagner's early works, including those never completed.
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His string sextet Verklärte Nacht Op 4 is imbued with the ultra passionate nightmarish intensity of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde.
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Whereas Wagner tries to create a total work of art in this way, the king of Bavaria builds fairytale castles with all kinds of unreal touches, such as starlit skies for a bedroom.
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In the wake of Pater's dictum and the gradual dissolution of established artistic practices toward the end of the 19th century - toward the "total work of art" Wagner sought in his operas - visual artists strove more and more to inhere the "condition of music" to their work.
Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Moving Pictures, Frozen Music
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Insofar as someone in a sufficiently blissful stupor had no opportunity to reflect that, say, they were squandering their capacities by not reading Proust or listening to Wagner, I think the mental-state welfarist is hard pressed to seriously aver that this person is experiencing less subjective happiness, from a God Who Loves You perspective, than someone who has the enjoyment of realizing their capacities.
Happiness Redux
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Tim Albery's production of Wagner's classic story of growing up, featuring some of his most lyrical music.
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Certainly there is mangel-wurzel in the music of Wagner, although it is another composer whose name begins, B-e-e-t --.
La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
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In a world where political leaders lose themselves, like Wagnerian Gods, in adolescent diversions, great artists such as Wagner provide reminders of what's at stake when human beings fail to address the real issues at hand.
Albert Imperato: My Takeaway From the Metropolitan Opera's New Rheingold
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His drawings are also found in travel books and the stories of operas by Richard Wagner.
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There were two other girls in my ballet class, and even in small-town Hollywood, with its almost incestuously intimate environment, how could we ever have imagined at the time that one day all three of us would be married to Robert Wagner . . . in one way or another.
One From The Hart
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What he does is very good, but systematically disappoints all expectations of the Wagner community, both fans and enemies alike.
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Natalie Wood died sometime after the evening of Nov. 28, 1981, when the 43-year-old actress was boating off Catalina Island with her husband Robert Wagner and actor Christopher Walken.
Natalie Wood Death Was An Accident, Says LASD (VIDEO)
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Not all of the looks are so enticing—upgrading Ivy style with a cravat did no favors for James Garner, Robert Wagner or Jason Robards, and Newman's own ascot is the worst of the lot—but this book captures what may have been the last time anyone looked admiringly at the clothes that stars wore.
Photo-Op: Film Prep
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The Reluctant Soldier On the day before he died, Eddie Wagner wrote an encouraging letter to a friend back at Penn State.
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Out of these commonplace elements, elements that one might almost call prosaic, Wagner wrought his picture of storm, with its terror, power, joyous laughter of the storm's daughters -- storm as it must have seemed to the first poets of our race.
Richard Wagner Composer of Operas
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Mr. Evans, who moved to the small town of Marathon in 1988, captures the profound West Texas emptiness, where endless horizons are broken only by isolated escarpments such as the Chisos Mountains, which the writer and environmentalist Edward Abbey called 'a castled fortification of Wagnerian gods.'
Photo-Op: Big Bender
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He reached Dresden August 26, heard Spohr's "Faust" and met capellmeister Morlacchi -- that same Morlacchi whom Wagner succeeded as a conductor January 10, 1843 -- vide Finck's "Wagner.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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But as so often happens, Wood's career soared while Wagner's hit a fallow period, and the fairytale marriage collapsed.
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_ -- (1) Wagner's reagent (iodine dissolved in a solution of potassium iodide) yields a reddish-brown precipitate; (2) Mayer's reagent (potassio-mercuric iodide) gives a yellowish-white precipitate; (3) phospho-molybdic acid gives a yellow precipitate; (4) platinic chloride, a brown precipitate; (5) tannic acid, etc.
Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
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Tannhäuser is not an invention, though it is to Wagner alone that we owe his association with the famous contest of minstrelsy which is the middle picture in Wagner's drama.
A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
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Its publication came at a time when Wagner was also under pressure from Wieland's daughter, Nike Wagner, who criticized what she called her uncle's "monarchic" leadership style.
Wagner's Grandson Dies
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Hill A, Wagner A, Hill M (2003) Hox and paraHox genes from the anthozoan Parazoanthus parasiticus.
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Angela Merkel, who knows and likes her Wagner and who is a regular attender at Bayreuth, has welcomed it, as have the Wagner family.
Richard Wagner was no ranter | Martin Kettle
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Both of them were wrong, and to prove it the APO had concocted a meal with a Brahms symphony as the first course and some gourmet Wagner items in the second.
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Erik is a mere operatic tenor lover, and his cavatinas have tunefulness enough, without a trace of the warmth of melody which characterises Wagner's later works.
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Wagner's ingeniousness with plot is matched by his cleverness with the recherché literary conceits - little touches that you can't help admiring, like statues in a boxwood maze, even as you hurry past.
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What this example would amount to is a modern version of the type of thing which Wagner wished to create through his Ring cycle and his theatre at Bayreuth: a total artistic experience which makes us aware of some mythos, a numinosity, a Destiny, which raises us to a higher level.
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The nineteenth century added some mechanics to the beast to allow it some ability to play sharps and flats and to modulate, but it's still not a chromatic instrument, and since at least Wagner, music sings mainly chromatically.
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It is a clever imitation of the Wagnerian manner, except as regards the choruses, which scarcely rise above the standard of the Liedertafel; but neither at its production nor at an elaborate revival, which took place at Würzburg a few years ago, did it meet with more than a _succès d'estime_.
The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.
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In the hymnal we have Wagner but we also have Brahms (the academic festival overture’s hymn), and one doesn’t see those chaps a whole lot in hymnals — give me more of the latter and dispense with the great bombaster.
Deliberations on O Holy Night « Unknowing
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Like Wagner's overture, this movement is a Romantic ode to Classical counterpoint, and one at times seems to hear actual Wagner themes peeking out from behind the curtain.
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Strauss’ Also sprach Zarathustra is in the same ballpark, and, of course, Wagner, the original hammer of the gods.
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Bonynge also helped guide her away from the Wagnerian track that might have seemed to be a natural for someone of her vocal endowments, and into the realm of the coloratura soprano.
Joan Sutherland: addio, Stupenda
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I'm not sure that eschewing the incipient vulgarity of the two marches by Wagner is entirely a good thing, though!
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The paintings for Abraham Wagner were reproduced as prints under the title Merkwürdigen Prospekte aus den Schweizer Gebirge.
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Also in the Stranger: Annie Wagner on The Namesake, "a perfectly subtle story that stiffens with each new visual gimmick," and Michael Atkinson on a sampling of video "elegies" by Alexander Sokurov, "one of the modern age's most restless and uncompromised cinematic powerhouses.
GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 3/19.
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But Wagner's music casts a spell infinitely more seductive than those wielded by his motley collection of wizards and sorcerers.
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The first thing his art places in our hands is a magnifying glass: we look through it, and we no longer trust our own eyes — Everything grows bigger, _even Wagner grows bigger_.
The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.
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Nietzsche grew to loathe so intensely in Wagner, — viz., his pronounced histrionic tendencies, his dissembling powers, his inordinate vanity, his equivocalness, his falseness.
Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
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I once loved you, and was troubled to see that thing go viral, especially with the groom what's his name again? drawn as one of Wagner's rapacious little Nibelungen, though you have to admire the artisanship, and the groom's lavish death by intestinal extrusion, which took years of study.
My Super PAC Is Driving Me CRAZY
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Bennett was a bitter opponent of Wagner; but in the unvocal and declamatory character of this solo, and in the dramatic force he has given to it, to the sacrifice of melody, he certainly ventured some distance in the Wagnerian direction.
The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers
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Other unusual instruments such as guitars, saxophones, bass flutes, heckelphones, Wagner tubas, and so on may be used as well, depending upon the music
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[Here, Wagner illustrates with a 2-bar musical example.] where you have forgotten to mark the tempo as piu moderato, that is almost twice as slow as before, and in the G major passage
Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 2
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Montemezzi (1875-1952) was an Italian composer of the so-called verismo school, its music characterized by sumptuous Wagnerian orchestral writing, and an integration of broad melodies with declamation suggesting the rhythm of Italian speech.
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He calls Verdi "the last naïve master of Western music, in an age given over to the Sentimentalisches" - the self-conscious, subversive "sentimentalists," such as Wagner, Liszt and their modernist followers, whose agenda-laden art has held sway ever since.
Hopes Dashed at City Opera As Dead Man Walking Disappoints
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Even the venerable Rudolph Wagner, whom no man will accuse of progressionist proclivities, has raised his voice on the same side; while not a single anatomist, great or small, has supported Professor Owen.
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Another artist worthy of consideration in this same vein is Otto Wagner (1841-1918), whose glass work in the Art Nouveau church of St. Leopold am Steinhof in Vienna has to be amongst some of the most widely known.
The Other Modern: Glass of Max Läuger and Otto Wagner
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CardinalFanin, you are an idiot for sure the more i see these prices for decent FAs like perez and lowe the more apparent it is that the cubs made a huge mistake with dempster. if the mets sign perez they have to be the favorites in the east once again. i don't believe the wagner news for a second, but that bullpen is still solid.
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At the same time he is never less than eloquent as Wagner's panegyrist.
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In fact, according to some European-authored racial taxonomies–the one I am thinking of is either by Richard Wagner or one of his relatives–Jews were even more “mongrelized” than Blacks.
The Social Construction of Our Ever Changing Racial Categories
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Chunky young Wagner -- short, strong, and slow, a filling-station robber from downstate -- had shown no talent for fistfighting.
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The genius of Wagner as a musician has so far overshadowed all else, that his genius as a poet and as an exquisite reteller of the old legends has not been fully appreciated.
Parsifal A Mystical Drama By Richard Wagner Retold In The Spirit Of The Bayreuth Interpretation
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After a close loss to Stony Brook, the Lions will travel to Staten Island tonight for an interborough contest with the Wagner College Seahawks.
Columbia Daily Spectator
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The limp untheatricality and stale visual aesthetic of the production are feeble responses to the elemental power and ecstatic lyricism of Wagner's score.
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This is an opera that definitely sings, but perhaps too reticently for those bred on Verdi, Puccini, and Wagner.
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In durchkomponiert music like Wagner, no matter how stunning, you keep quite as a mouse until the end of the act.
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The nineteenth century added some mechanics to the beast to allow it some ability to play sharps and flats and to modulate, but it's still not a chromatic instrument, and since at least Wagner, music sings mainly chromatically.
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Integral to Wagnerian ideology is a belief that all sense of individual identity vanishes during sexual activity.
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Certainly there is mangel-wurzel in the music of Wagner, although it is another composer whose name begins, B-e-e-t --.
La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
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That's Robert Wagner, who enjoyed his biggest success on Hart To Hart and It Takes A Thief, this larky series about an urbane jewel thief recruited to steal for the government when they're not free to act.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: "West Side Story" (Almost) Perfect In New BluRay Set
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Dove's version is a great way to bring a performance of Wagner's great tetralogy to a smaller city's theater, and I was glad to get to experience it.
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Otherwise, this staging, full of padding and smart-aleck references, diffuses Wagner's musical power: it is an elemental drama gelded by unasked questions and a lack of ambition.
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Dr Wagner claimed that simply exterminating the street dogs was not enough because areas that are cleared of dogs quickly become repopulated.
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He does have some choice words about Wagner, which include such gems as "boniest doggerel of sounds I ever endured," and "blundering, boggling, baboon-blooded stuff.
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WAGNER 45, IONA 28 (at New York) - The Seahawks (1-1) scored 38 unanswered points in a rout of Iona (1-1).
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From behind every door came the sound of music: piano scales, a sad clarinet, a snatch of cello, a female voice in full Wagnerian mode.
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Otherwise, this staging, full of padding and smart-aleck references, diffuses Wagner's musical power: it is an elemental drama gelded by unasked questions and a lack of ambition.
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Wagner did not wish to be kapellmeister -- on the contrary, wished most vigorously not to be kapellmeister.
Richard Wagner Composer of Operas
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Called “La Stupenda,” she combined the heft of a Wagnerian singer with the agility and upper register of a coloratura soprano, leading to powerful interpretations of great bel canto roles that had lain dormant for decades -- following in the wake of Maria Callas, who had spearheaded their initial revival.
Joan Sutherland: addio, Stupenda
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The result is an evening of Wagnerian dimension spread over four and a half hours.
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If you want to experience Wagner's Ring, you should see a full orchestral production, in German, in Bayreuth if you can afford it.
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Wagner-Jauregg, for example, found biotin is identical to
Richard Kuhn and the Chemical Institute: Double Bonds and Biological Mechanisms
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It is all perfectly fluent, technically accomplished, and utterly unmemorable, though collectors of Wagneriana will undoubtedly want to hear the work.
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Casts and orchestras are kept small: no heckelphones or Wagner tubas in his scoring.
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There are differences between these two movements that embrace dominion theology and now, at least for Wagner, apparently postmillennialism but those differences is not over whether their view of dominion amounts to a decentralized, voluntary vision for governing a society of free people.
Julie Ingersoll: C. Peter Wagner: Dominion Theology And Postmillennialism On NPR
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There were Wagnerian clouds to match, and the wind had picked up considerably, invading Anna's hair to create a sort of Medusa effect.
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Indeed, it is the antithesis of idiomatic Wagner, thought out with an icy logicality and precision.
Archive 2008-10-01
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Ludwig provided 30,000 florins for the completion of the already advanced Ring cycle and granted Wagner an annual allowance of 8000 florins, with occasional top-up amounts in addition.
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Regarded on two continents as today's premier interpreter of Wagner, he arrived in 2004 to take over the Philharmonic, and now, in the wake of an unrenewed contract a few years ago, he is going to Dresden's Staatskapelle.
Conducting a Transfer of Power
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According to Wagner Caterpillars of Eastern North America, Princeton Field Guides, 2005, the graded lightening of the sides of this caterpillar's body from the top to the bottom is an example of countershading.
Archive 2006-09-01
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The rapturous love music of the first movement is worthy of Wagner or Strauss.
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These latter, as in Wagner's theory, will play their part in lowering the associability of the target stimulus.
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Nietzsche's musical attitudes remained more or less constant until the summer of 1868, when the conversion to Wagner began.
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Wagner set his sights on a degree in electrical engineering, and he followed his star with a fervid intensity.
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However, tomorrow and likely for all her remaining days in cleats, Wagner will have a team to play on.
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At curtain-up we are presented with a draped terrain, and a formally dressed maestro conducting a Wagner overture.
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McBride singled in a run in the second, banging a ball off the glove of diving third baseman Ken Boyer to score Leon Wagner.
