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Home-Grown Wagnerian. At first by default, and increasingly by merit, Helen Traubel has become the greatest Wagnerian soprano singing in the world today. She is the first great soprano at the Met to sing Wagner and nothing but (Flagstad sang Beethoven's Fidelia). She is also the first American-born Brünnhilde and Isolde who didn't study at the Wagnerian shrine at Bayreuth. Until 1940, when she sang in Canada, Helen Traubel had never been out of the U.S. She has never crossed the Atlantic...
...Superman (four hours), Wagner's Tristan and Isolde (four hours), Bach's Art of Fugue, Mahler's Lied von der Erde, a psychology lecture by Sir Cyril Burt. a critical appraisal of U.S. novelist Henry James. Coming attractions: all Mozart's violin concertos, all Beethoven's piano sonatas, Goethe's Faust, a dramatization of Melville's Moby Dick...
...program is about as good as can be expected, with the first Boston performance of Prokofieff's new string quartet as the featured piece. An early Beethoven, the opus 18, No. 3, will open the afternoon, and a somewhat grim note will be struck by the Brahms A Minor quartet at the conclusion...
...orderly election (there were watchers from all four parties at the polls and Allied Kommandatura control teams cruised through the city), the Social Democratic Party managed to get more than twice as many votes as SED. Even the Sedists' desperate last minute campaign stunts, including a performance of Beethoven's Ninth, fireworks and free potatoes, were in vain. The results...
Last week in Manhattan, 56-year-old Dame Myra Hess, greatest of all contemporary women pianists, played her first U.S. recital in 7½ years. The concert had been sold out weeks in advance. In the audience, earnest young piano students used scores to follow her program of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. Manhattan's concertgoers found her style cool, careful and womanly: a grateful contrast to some of the pedal pounding and frantic gymnastics that passes for virtuosity these days...