Word: fischers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PUCCINI: TOSCA (2 LPs; London). Birgit Nilsson's voice is purest gold, and it takes men of equal quality to sing against her. She has found ideal antagonists in this recording: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as Tosca's brutally intelligent tormentor and Franco Corelli as her devoted lover are almost overwhelming in their dynamic and masculine artistry. Yet Birgit summons all the fire in her Swedish soul and emulates, if not exactly incarnates, the Latin passions of Tosca, daring anyone to typecast her as merely a Wagnerian soprano. With Conductor Lorin Maazel whipping his orchestra along in unrelenting fury...
...Mixed doubles. Gez Ebbert and William Fischer vs. Lola Atwood and Bob Haar...
...action?' And usually I'd get by." But Kane and Bailey had a few close calls under sniper fire. At one point Bailey was hit in the back by a brick and his camera was taken away by an angry mob. Reinforcements appeared: Loye Miller and Dean Fischer came from TIME'S Chicago bureau and Wally Terry from Washington. Said Terry, who was recently in Viet Nam: "I felt in more danger in Detroit than I ever was over there." Adds Miller: "Maybe the worst hazards facing newsmen were not so much Negro threats or sniper bullets...
...familiar is the Chickering, whose owners included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Teddy Roosevelt. Francis Scott Key played The Star-Spangled Banner on a Knabe; Lyndon Johnson has a Knabe, and Bobby Kennedy a Chickering. Other Aeolian pianos, built at seven plants in the U.S. and Canada, include Mason & Hamlin, Fischer, Pianola, Weber, George Steck, Duo-Art, Cable, Hardman Peck, Winter, Kranich & Bach, Ivers & Pond and Mason & Risch...
...other players could have done what Richter did with the piano music either. Fischer-Dieskau sang the 15 Magelone Romances by Brahms in one recital, 20 of Hugo Wolf's Mörike Lieder in another. Richter matched FischerDieskau's richly expressive voice in every curve of melody, every nuance of shading, every dramatic inflection, making the piano not so much an embellishment of the vocal line as a second voice that sang along with...