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Less of a glamor girl, more of a conscientious craftswoman, is 1938-model Prima Donna Lotte Lehmann, who last month also published an autobiography.† Though overshadowed in the public eye by the more spectacular Kirsten Flagstad, German-born Soprano Lehmann has, for five years, been rated tops by Metropolitan opera connoisseurs...
Beethoven: Abscheulicher, Wo Eilst Du Hin? from Fidelio (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting, with Kirsten Flagstad; Victor). A masterpiece of sound-reproduction. But Wagnerian Soprano Flagstad's Beethoven is less extraordinary than her Wagner...
Because her boat from Australia was delayed and she had a date to sing in Los Angeles, Opera Singer Kirsten Flagstad boarded the Japanese Tatsuta Maru at Honolulu rather than wait for a U. S. boat. When the Tatsuta Maru got to San Francisco, polite customs officials sent a launch to meet her, quickly issued clearance papers in the "stream," whisked her to a plane. Department of Commerce officials, not so polite, fined Mme Flagstad the customary $200 for traveling between U. S. ports on a foreign ship. Also fined the same amount each were her husband, her accompanist...
Died. Berthold Neuer, 57, vice president and general manager of William Knabe & Sons (pianos), authority on musical history, friend & adviser of many world-famed musicians (Richard Strauss, Rachmaninoff, Kirsten Flagstad, Friedrich Schorr); of heart disease; in Manhattan...
...counted on to pull a rabbit of some sort out of his hat. This season's rabbit: an unknown, good-looking, 26-year-old,Polish-born soprano named Margaret Kubatzki. Soprano Kubatzki, making her official Covent Garden debut in a role previously sung by the eminent Kirsten Flagstad (Senta in Wagner's The Flying Dutch-man), created a sensation. Said Conductor Beecham: "One night last October I was turning the various knobs of a wireless ... I heard a magnificent voice. . . . When I went to Germany to make records of the Magic Flute I enquired of every eminent German...