Jack in the Box stores reopen after tax issues Sep 19, 2009
Beasley has agreed to plead guilty and cooperate with the government in its ongoing investigation, according to prosecutors Benjamin Wagner and Sean Flynn. Financial problems led to the temporary closure of Jack in the Box restaurants in the central San Joaquin Valley this week. (Fresno Bee)
Classical Music for the Halloween S... Sep 17, 2009
From Light-Hearted Themes to Wagnerian Romanticism ... At the other end of the spectrum are the works of Richard Wagner, deep and emotionally cumbersome like The Flying Dutchman and The Ride of the Valkyries. (Suite101.com)
The accidental opera Sep 16, 2009
I saw her in Wagner's Die Walkure 11 years ago in London; she was all of 61, but her artistry was still second to none ... Then there was the anvil in Act I of Wagner's Siegfried, upon which the hero forges a sword that he uses to break the anvil in half ... Wagner, as we have seen, is especially subject to accidental circumstances. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Flames along Kachemak Bay Sep 13, 2009
But even that most Apollonian and cerebral artist, German composer Richard Wagner, might concur with the temporary aesthetics ... Wagner built the auditorium and wrote the operas, but changed his mind about the immolation. (Anchorage Daily News)
Eight arts leaders provide new direction in their first seasons Sep 13, 2009
As a 12-year-old, I was invited to a rehearsal in Salzburg of Wagner s Ring with Herbert von Karajan conducting. Not that I came out and said, I had to be in opera at all, but it just got a hold of me. (Boston Globe)
Tolkien’s ‘Legend’ lives on in poems Sep 4, 2009
The two poems that make up The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrn are Tolkien s version of the Old Norse Vlsung and Nibelung legends, an attempt to unify and organize the material dealing with Sigurd, Brynhild, Gunnar, and other characters, using the same source materials that Richard Wagner drew upon for his opera series The Ring. Tolkien s task was to fit modern English to the Old Norse meter: eight-line stanzas, each short line only four to six syllables and containing two to three stresses each. (Boston Globe)
Masestro Barenboim Waves His Magic Baton over Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2009 on PBS' Great Performances on THIRTEEN Sep 4, 2009
Richard Wagner described the orchestra as being one of the most outstanding in the world, and Richard Strauss summed it all up by saying, All praise for the Vienna Philharmonic reveals itself as an understatement. . (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
At Your Library: Its a music lovers delight Sep 3, 2009
Some highlight the performer s lives and others are clips from live concerts ranging from Wagner to the Bee Gees or Bob Dylan. Downloadable music files are available through the CLAMS catalog (www. (Harwich Oracle, MA)
Isolde Alone Cannot Save This Production Aug 29, 2009
(AP) Tristan and Isolde, Wagner once wrote, was meant to be a "monument to that most beautiful of dreams" _ love ... It is organically static, with what "action" there is taking place on a ship's desk, a garden and under a linden tree, in Wagner's original ... Wagner obviously meant to give his music center stage. (CBS News -- World)
Daily guide to television and radio Aug 29, 2009
Filmmaker Andrew Wagner s family visits him. NR (2004). (Boston Globe)
Wagner piece to push Cincinnati Operas skill, strategy Aug 28, 2009
Wagner piece to push Cincinnati Operas skill, strategy - Business Courier of Cincinnati ... Wagner piece to push Cincinnati Operas skill, strategy ... rnberg by German composer Richard Wagner. (Cincinnati Business Courier, OH)
Lambert back to lead Skippers Aug 25, 2009
Other returning players include senior captains Heather Abzug, Maggie Kregness and Noelle Wagner. Abzug and Wagner teamed up to play No. 1 doubles during last year's state tournament and took a set off their opponents from Edina in the semifinal match that Edina won 6-1. (Minnetonka Lakeshore Weekly News, MN)
A stellar 'Ring' in Seattle Aug 24, 2009
(08-23) 04:00 PDT Seattle - -- Is a governing concept necessary for a production of Wagner's "Ring" cycle to succeed ... The result is a "Ring" that is all too easily dismissed as old-fashioned - it boasts swords and spears, dwarves and giants and dragons, in just the places Wagner requests them - but whose theatrical and interpretive vitality is impossible to resist ... All of this activity is testament to the endless resilience of Wagner's mythological world, a potent brew of action and... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Hildegard Behrens, singer famed for Wagnerian roles, 72 Aug 21, 2009
NEW YORK - The German soprano Hildegard Behrens, a mesmerizing interpreter of touchstone dramatic soprano roles like Wagner s Bruennhilde and Strauss s Salome during the 1980s and early 90s, died Tuesday in Tokyo ... Her ascent into the demanding Wagnerian soprano repertory was uncommonly fast after starting her career late ... But the shimmering allure and power of her sound and the intensity of her singing led her inexorably to Wagner. (Boston Globe)
CONFERENCE REPORT: Inside the Big Ten Aug 21, 2009
OFFENSE: Starters QB Ben Chappell; RB Bryan Payton; WR Terrance Turner; WR Damarlo Belcher; WR Tandon Doss; OLT Rodger Saffold; OLG Justin Pagan; C Pete Saxon; ORG Cody Faulkner; ORT James Brewer; TE Troy Wagner ... SPECIAL TEAMS: PK Collin Wagner, P Jeremy Boone, KR Chaz Powell, PR A.J. Wallace ... Wagner must show that he can be counted on to replace four-year starter Kevin Kelly. (USA Today -- Sports)
Orchestra celebrates Mahler's majesty Aug 21, 2009
Simone Young, whose recent concerts were successes with audience and orchestra, will return in a program of Wagner, Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No. 1 (with the remarkable German violinist Arabella Steinbacher as soloist) and Bruckner's Seventh Symphony. James Ehnes, outstanding in Elgar's Violin Concerto last year, will be back, this time with another demanding assignment, the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Singing The Praises Of A Diva Aug 20, 2009
For more than a quarter of an hour -- motionless, silent -- Behrens let the Wagner character's wonderment and horror play across her face. The emotions projected to the back of the auditorium. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio ousts Sloan as CEO Aug 19, 2009
It brought in actor Cruise and producing partner Paula Wagner to head subsidiary United Artists, but their first movie, "Lions for Lambs," flopped and was estimated to have lost $30 million. Wagner has since left the label to pursue projects independently ... Soprano Hildegard Behrens, one of the finest Wagnerian performers of her generation, has died while traveling in Japan. (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
Hildegard Behrens, renowned Wagner soprano, dies in Tokyo at age 72 Aug 19, 2009
Behrens, one of the finest Wagnerian performers of her generation, has died while traveling in Japan ... TOKYO (AP) Soprano Hildegard Behrens, one of the finest Wagnerian performers of her generation, has died while traveling in Japan ... She was most acclaimed in the late 1980s and early 1990s for her portrayal of Bruennhilde in the Otto Schenk production of the Ring Cycle, the Met's first televised staging of Wagner's tetralogy. (FOX61, CT)
Seattle Opera revives its 'Green Ring' cycle, a Wagnerian feast for eye and ear Aug 18, 2009
SEATTLE (AP) Like a towering fir tree that survives after the primeval forest around it has vanished, the Seattle Opera's production of Wagner's "Ring" cycle now stands alone as the only traditional depiction of the epic music drama on an American stage ... That leaves Seattle as the U.S. destination for Wagner enthusiasts who want to see his four-part "Der Ring des Nibelungen" performed over the span of a week in a production that sticks closely to the composer's original vision ... That's not... (FOX61, CT)
Hawaii film industry not getting needed support Aug 17, 2009
Most local film production companies, including Jason Lau's Talk Story Productions ("The Tempest"), Rann Watumull's Hawaii Film Partners ("You may not Kiss the Bride"), Ric Galindez' Island Film Group ("The Last Princess") and Brett Wagner, partnering with Moana Productions ("Chief"), were relying on Act 221. They'll have to find other sources of capital. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Festival Opera's magically musical 'Faust' Aug 11, 2009
Erin Neff was an arresting Sibel, Patrice Houston a funny and vocally rich Marthe, and Zachary Gordin an energetic Wagner. The chorus, led by James Toland, made the most of its scenes. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Marschner Opera Der Vampyr Aug 6, 2009
Richard Wagner and Der Vampyr ... Der Vampyr is still sometimes performed with Wagner's allegro in place of Marschner's original agitato ... The Life of Richard Wagner. (Suite101.com)
Records from the crime-suppression operations Aug 5, 2009
Records from crime-suppression operations. Records from crime-suppression operations. (AZCentral -- News)
ELOQUENT MARTYRS Aug 4, 2009
But when the composer is at the top of his game, in the Act 4 love duet, "Huguenots" can hold its own with the best of Wagner or Verdi. The opera unfolds against the backdrop of the 1572 massacre of French Protestant Huguenots by Roman Catholics. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Infinite Playlist Aug 3, 2009
On November 28th of that year, Arturo Toscanini led the NBC Symphony in orchestral excerpts from the Wagner operas ... The well-drilled brilliance of the NBC orchestra comes through, as does Toscanini s passion for Wagner, whom the Nazis had tried to annex as propaganda, and whom the Maestro was imperiously taking back ... Clemens non Papa s radiant motet Ego Flos Campi I am a flower of the field and a lily of the valley is around four hundred and sixty years old, and if Toscanini s Wagner... (New Yorker)
Bayreuth opera festival opens under new directors Jul 27, 2009
The annual Bayreuth opera festival opened under new management on Saturday, with composer Richard Wagner's great-granddaughters in charge for the first time after their father ran the show for more than 50 years. Half-sisters Katharina Wagner, 31, and Eva Wagner-Pasquier, 64, welcomed luminaries such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel a regular pilgrim to Bayreuth and Bavarian Governor Horst Seehofer to the Festspielhaus ... On Aug. 9, a "Tristan" performance will be broadcast live on the... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Keep Ring Festival Focus on Wagner Jul 25, 2009
The Ring Festival should continue as planned and already prepared for, with a focus on German composer Richard Wagner, warts and all. Antonovich raised his objections to focusing on Wagner two weeks ago ... In making his pitch, Antonovich described Wagner as a racist whose anti-Semitic writings were the inspiration for Hitler and the holocaust. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Classical music picks this weekend Jul 24, 2009
Tomorrow s program, Words Into Song, features works by Dowland, Purcell, Respighi, Howard Frazin, and Melinda Wagner. On Sunday, poet Richard Wilbur will read, followed by a performance of new Wilbur settings. (Boston Globe)
Walking in water but still singing pretty Jul 7, 2009
"I was protected early on by my teacher in order to build my vocal technique, but she knew I had a bigger voice than a lyric soprano I've done almost all of the Mozart heroines and want to sing Strauss and maybe some baby Wagner one day.". Critics have described her voice as a combination of steely beauty, good coloratura and great power. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Composer Richard Wagner's 'Difficult' Reputation Unwarranted, Says Research Jul 7, 2009
ScienceDaily (July 6, 2009) The composer Richard Wagner is well-known, even notorious, for writing operas that can challenge both performers and listeners. A new study published in the Journal of the Acoustic Society of America reveals that Wagner set his text to music in a way that uses the acoustics of the soprano voice in a manner that helps both performers and listeners ... In the Wagnerian operas, vowels that required an open mouth were used significantly more often for the very high notes.... (Science Daily)
• Events Calendar Jul 3, 2009
Vocalist Amber Wagner performs dinner music, 7-9 p.m., and vocalist and guitarist Sassy Lee plays light rock, 9-11 p.m., at Canyon Crest Dining and Event Center, 330 Canyon Crest Drive. No cover. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
* Free love, at a price Jul 3, 2009
It turned its back on the then fashionable oceanic tempestuousness of Wagner and offered instead a simplicity of orchestral effect. Composers such as Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Richard Strauss and even Wagner himself were all to pay tribute to Georges Bizets originality. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
* [CLASSICAL DVD REVIEW] Jul 1, 2009
Human beings the world over need and respond to this, and Puccini knew it, as did Verdi, Wagner and even Shostakovich ... Tomlinson is a great Wagnerian, but here his performance, combined with earthbound stage designs, does little to arouse awe or wonder. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Brent Intermediate School Jun 24, 2009
Star Community Newspapers. In The Community, With The Community, For the Community. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
Family to unravel Wagners' Nazi ties Jun 23, 2009
THE great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner, Adolf Hitler's favourite composer, has started a high-profile investigation into her family's ties with the Nazis in order to dispel the shadow hanging over the clan's Bayreuth opera festival, held in Bavaria, Germany. Katharina Wagner, 31, has invited independent historians to investigate whether Hitler was the secret lover of her grandmother, Winifred Wagner, along with other links between the Nazis and her great-grandfather, who shared Hitler's... (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
* Wagners heir plans to probe familys Nazi links Jun 22, 2009
Wagners heir plans to probe familys Nazi links ... German Bayreuth Festival director and great granddaughter of Richard Wagner, Katharina Wagner, attends the presentation of the concept Future Bayreuth in Berlin, Germany, last Tuesday ... The great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner, Adolf Hitlers favorite composer, has vowed to investigate her familys links with the Nazis in a move that could be bitterly opposed by other members of the dynasty. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Celebrity birthdays for the week of June 21-27 Jun 18, 2009
Actress Lindsay Wagner is 60. Actress Murphy Cross is 59. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Marshfield graduation June 6 (4) Jun 6, 2009
Jacob Adamson, Ashley Akhtar, Josh Anderson, Gabe Anderson, Miranda Anderson, Diana Avila, Ella Baer, Ricky Barajas, Jonathan Barton, Alisha Becker, Marcus Beckett, Davey Beebe, Jessica Beebe, Chris Benson, Derrick Berry, Katie Betterton, Randy Betterton,Travis Bettin, Catherine Bones, Zakk Borgogno, Christina Braun, Brian Brock, Erika Brown, Justin Brown, Kyle Brown, Tyana Brown, Carissa Bunnell, Chelsea Busch, Michael Button Natalie Caffey, Mycoal Campo, Brendan Canevari, Leroy Capote III,... (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
Sierra Vista symphony making changes Jun 4, 2009
The first half will include music by Bach, Saint Saens and Wagner. Well-known Beatles tunes in concert setting will be performed in anticipation of the musical group. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Endless Mahler Jun 1, 2009
Barenboim, the music director of the Staatskapelle Berlin, is prone to such stuntlike feats; in 2002, he led the ten mature operas of Richard Wagner including the entire Ring in two weeks ... His portion of the cycle took off in the finale of the Third, which became a translucent vision akin to Wagner s Good Friday music. (New Yorker)
La Crosse Concert Band series begins June 10 May 31, 2009
Steve Bina will conduct the June 17 concert with music that has been heard in Bugs Bunny cartoons, from The Rabbit of Seville and George Frideric Handel s Water Music Suite to Richard Wagner s Ride of the Valkyries and Bugs greatest hits medley, What s Up at the Symphony. For the third straight summer, the La Crosse Concert Band will move indoors to Viterbo s Fine Arts Center Main Theatre for a concert on June 24. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
WW-PS stopped Yard short May 28, 2009
In this video press release, Assembly members Sheila Y. Oliver (D-Essex), Connie Wagner (D-Bergen), Celeste M. Riley (D-Cumberland) and Ruben J. Ramos, Jr. (D-Hudson) discuss a two-bill package that would increase awareness of and simplify enrollment in the state's two prescription assistance programs, respectively. The first bill (A-137) would provide for automatic enrollment in either the Senior Gold Prescription Discount Program or the Pharmaceutical Assistance to the Aged and Disabled (PAAD)... (NJ.com -- Times)
S.F. Opera's Runnicles enters the homestretch May 28, 2009
He's conducted more than 60 operas during his tenure, from standard repertoire works by Wagner, Strauss, Mozart and Verdi to new (or newish) pieces like John Adams' "Doctor Atomic" and Olivier Messiaen's "Saint Franois d'Assise." He's shaped the Opera Orchestra and (together with Chorus Director Ian Robertson) the Opera Chorus into first-rate performing ensembles ... That theme of trust and personal relationships recurs like a Wagnerian leitmotif throughout any consideration of Runnicles' San... (San Francisco Chronicle)
The two Richards May 23, 2009
It's called The Boston Wagner Society, so we hope Richard Wagner doesn't roll over when he finds out that tonight's music includes selections by another Richard. "Wagner and Strauss" is an evening of operatic excerpts, lieder, and piano transcriptions with soprano Julia Rolwing and pianist Lloyd Arriola ... Rolwing is the first-prize winner of the Wagner Division of the Liederkranz Competition Award, among many others, and her singing has been described as "impeccable," "sympathetic," and... (Boston Globe)
Classical music picks May 22, 2009
BOSTON WAGNER SOCIETY. You don't typically find fully staged Wagner operas in this city thanks to the limitations of the local opera venues, but the Boston Wagner Society still does what it can to promote the composer's music. (Boston Globe)
* [ EVENTS & ENTERTAINMENT] May 22, 2009
58 and Bruckners Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, Wagner Symphonie. Sunday at 7:30pm. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Summer events listings May 17, 2009
May 23: Wagner and Strauss: Operatic Excerpts, Songs, and Piano Transcriptions. Tickets: General $25; Boston Wagner Society members $20; students $10. (Boston Globe)
Chorus to perform Messe Solennelle de Ste. Cecile May 15, 2009
Most recently, Register has been added to the prestigious roster of the Emerging Singers Program sponsored by the Wagner Society of Washington, D.C., who will sponsor him in learning and performing the works of Richard Wagner under the the personal tutelage of Evelyn Lear. He has appeared as Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor in his San Diego Opera debut under the baton of Richard Bonynge, Samson et Dalila, and will appear in their upcoming production of Puccini s Manon Lescaut. (Westerly Sun, RI)
Penguins, Capitals take series to the hilt May 12, 2009
The unstable May weather was more suited to a Wagner opera -- jagged lighting, crashing thunder, rain blowing sideways -- but the high drama had nothing to do with a soprano wearing a metal helmet with horns. These protagonists and antagonists, clad in armor with clear visors, clashed on ice with hockey sticks, the NHL equivalent of jousting lances. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Talisker Players, Burgess combine for rich program May 9, 2009
The composer calls it "a reworking in miniature of the legend of the 13th-century minnesinger Heinrich Tannhuser, and a tribute to Wagner's opera on the same theme." ... Rapoport's music, for all his Wagner worship, is attractively his own, much more succinct than Wagner, scored with both sweetness and vigour and with some particularly memorable effects from the viola and harp. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
JOHN PAUL JONES: Learning at the fountain of my youth May 9, 2009
Names like Tchaikovsky, Bach, Wagner, Bizet, Verdi and many others wouldn't become known to me until I grew up, but the strains of their genius lived in my imagination, thanks to cartoons. If the cartoons were fun and frivolous, Saturday afternoon westerns were deadly serious object lessons. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Pacific track lends hand to teams affected by H1N1 (Swine) flu May 3, 2009
18 25 333 Wagner, Andy Everett CC 16:29 ... 10 1) 290 Prause, Shayna 2) 293 Harris, Rachael 3) 294 Wagner, Lindsey 4) 296 DeLapp, Paige. (Wwuvikings.com)
Review: Welser-Moest gives magic to Wagner May 3, 2009
But it took a magician in the orchestra pit of the Vienna State Opera on Saturday to transfix the mortals in the audience attending a new production of Wagner's "Das Rheingold." ... So the notoriously finicky audience in the Austrian capital had its ears pricked for every tiny possible mistake in the new production of Wagner's first installment of the four-part Ring Cycle. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Jrvi performs his swan song with NJSO May 1, 2009
It contains sonorities reminiscent of Wagner, whom Bruckner greatly admired. Maestro J. (NJ.com -- Times)
Sampler for April 30 Apr 30, 2009
Chris Syers / trombone / grade 8 / Top Score, and Steven Wagner / trombone/ grade 8. The Marlborough Public Schools Music Association is hosting the District event, providing rooms for the kids, chaperones and teachers as well as snacks and lunch for the kids. (Marlborough Enterprise, MA)
City Council primary races heat up Apr 20, 2009
Chelsa Wagner's office as a community outreach coordinator ... Wayne Fontana's office, says he's acting on his own, but political observers note a history of bad blood between Mr. Fontana and Pete Wagner, Chelsa Wagner's father, who is backing Mr. Reilly ... Mr. Wagner, member of a prominent political family and Democratic Committee chair of the 19th Ward, broke from Mr. Fontana, a former ally, after Mr. Fontana was elected to the Senate. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Central Illinois played part in helping S.F. quake survivors Apr 19, 2009
The program included selections from popular Wagner, Rossini and Verdi operas. On April 30, The Pantagraph reported that former Bloomingtonian Will Tucker, the brother of current resident James T. Tucker, was pulled unconscious from a quake-damaged building and taken to a hospital in Los Angeles. (The Pantagraph newspaper)
Music review: MTT, YouTube Symphony Orchestra Apr 18, 2009
It was good to see more modern and eclectic fare programmed, in addition to music by more often spotted masters, namely Bach, Brahms, Debussy, Dvork, Gabrieli, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Villa-Lobos and Wagner ... Orchestral warhorses included Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries, music from Dvork's Serenade in D minor, and the Scherzo from Prokofiev's Concerto No. 2 in G Minor for Piano, featuring pianist Yuja Wang, also in her Carnegie debut. (San Francisco Chronicle)
YouTube orchestra makes its debut Apr 16, 2009
They performed an extensive programme that included works by Bach, Mozart, Villa Lobos, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Lou Harrison, John Cage, and a specially written piece called Internet Symphony No 1, Eroica, by Chinese composer Tan Dun. Astonished. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
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Opera may not be strictly religious, but for many, Richard Wagners Ring cycle is a spiritual experience ... Fans of Wagner have been waiting years for this to open in Los Angeles. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Lights to go dark for 'Earth Hour' Mar 28, 2009
The National Science Foundation's Tom Wagner on why climate expert tudy Antarctica. Data shows five areas of concern. (MSNBC -- Environment)
Infotainment Mar 27, 2009
Dancers and singers performanceParis: Dancers and singers perform the opera Die Feen (The Fairies) by German composer Richard Wagner. afp. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
Still a Box Office Star? Mar 24, 2009
Spotted at the "God of Carnage" premiere: former Tom Cruise partner Paula Wagner with husband Rick Nicita, now running Morgan Creek Productions; and CAA s Chris Anderson, who missed the play he reps Marcia Gay Harden understandably because he d been at Natasha Richardson s funeral upstate. P.S. And guess who took in "West Side Story" on Friday night. (Fox News)
Cruise Career Crisis? Mar 21, 2009
Also, "Valkyrie" which probably cost more like $150 million total when all the bookkeeping is done brought the end of Cruise s producing partnership with Paula Wagner and threw his deal with MGM to make movies at their United Artists into question. Now it s mid March, and Cruise has no movies in the can for 2009 or even 2010. (Fox News)
