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Corsaro has his keen eye on other Delius operas. As he points out, no less an authority than the late Sir Thomas Beecham, Delius' friend and greatest champion, considered A Village Romeo and Juliet and Fennimore and Gerda infinitely superior to Koanga...
...Grimké Sisters from South Carolina by Gerda Lerner...
...Routh. His fiercely prudish sermons from the bench drive adulterers to suicide and his wife to drink. He is as pompous a prig as ever rode a Rolls to work and pride to a fall. But the only tumble Miss Tracy gives him is into the downy bed of Gerda Trauenegg, a well-tuned opera singer from Vienna. Catching him with his wig down, Gerda momentarily taps a streak of puritanical lechery...
...Dief said no. Breaking a long silence on Gerda, a Diefenbaker spokesman stormed that "this unsubstantiated, unverified material is a smear and completely irresponsible...
...Lady of Distinction." Sévigny himself was no help to Diefenbaker's cause. He never denied having had a "physical relationship" with Gerda, but insisted that she was a "lady of distinction" who was "welcomed in Montreal's select circles." As far as his own friendship was concerned, there was a platonic all-night visit to her Montreal apartment as late as November 1960, during which, he said, he did nothing more indiscreet than take a nap in a chair...