The post also led him to conduct at the internationally renown Bayreuth music festival, dedicated to the works of Richard Wagner.

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Wednesday is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Richard Wagner.

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The performance, celebrating Richard Wagner, continued after a colleague stepped in.

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Music by Alexandre Desplat and, in one stunning sequence, Richard Wagner.

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Forster loved Richard Wagner and felt an affinity with Marcel Proust, a writer for whom musical phrasing was a paradigm both for art and for life.

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At a show at Joe's Pub in mid-December, five thereminists performed a range of material including ambient and techno music, classical compositions by Alexander Scriabin and Richard Wagner, and pop by the Beatles, Enya, and Dorothy Fields and Jerome Kern.

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In short, Buchanan, along with coauthors like Gordon Tullock, Geoffrey Brennan, Richard Wagner, and others, helped develop a branch of inquiry that helps us understand politics and markets by considering people as they actually are rather than as we can imagine them to be in our visions of a perfect world.

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Richard Brodsky, a former Democratic assemblyman who is now with the Wagner School at New York University and has been working with local officials, said the rising costs of health care and pensions of public workers is hitting local governments as cities outside New York City are losing population and tax base.

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But other composers subsequently incorporated Wagner tubas into major works, most notably Anton Bruckner, Igor Stravinsky and Richard Strauss.

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