Rienzi hymns, processions and the musical clash of arms". Cosima Wagner recorded Wagner's comment in her diary for 20 June 1871: "Rienzi" is very repugnant to me, but they should at least recognize the fire in it; I was a music director and I wrote a grand opera; the fact that it was this same music director who gave them some hard nuts to crack – that's what should astonish them. Thus the work has remained outside today's Wagner canon, and was only performed at the Bayreuth Festival in 2013, staged by Matthias von Stegmann. Although the composer disclaimed it, it
Music of the Americas (concert series) the Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Nelson Freire, Inti-Illimani, and Chango Spasiuk, as well as music not often presented elsewhere in the area. The Music of the Americas program has been under the direction of Sebastián Zubieta since 2005. The concert series is free and takes place at Americas Society’s headquarters on the upper east side of New York City at 680 Park Avenue. The building, which has served as Americas Society’s headquarters since David Rockefeller created the organization, is a New York City landmark and listed in the National Register of Historic Places, and was previously the home of Percy Rivington