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...Schumann-Heink or Frank Sinatra. Alsop, 64, was quick to dispel any such notion. Said Joe: "I'm engaged in writing a kind of summing-up series of columns, trying to compress 40-odd years in a few thousand words before I get the hell out." "Personally, I like sex, and I don't care what a man thinks of me as long as I get what I want from him -which is usually sex." Actress Valerie Perrine's candor, revealed in an interview with New York Times Reporter Judy Klemesrud, may not attract many serious suitors...
...fury. Moreover, Librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal's reading of Sophocles bristles with frank Freudian overtones of a kind the operatic stage had not seen before and would not see again until Berg's Wozzeck. All in all, the audience tended to agree with the fabled Ernestine Schumann-Heink, who sang the first Klytaemnestra but vowed never to do it again. "It was frightful," said she. "We were a set of madwomen. There is nothing beyond Elektra. We have lived to reach the farthest boundary in dramatic writing for the voice with Wagner. But Strauss goes beyond...
...VOICES THAT LIVE. Steve Bell presents recordings by Ernestine Schuman Heink, contralto...
...last of the great divas* of the "golden age of opera"; in Manhattan. Famed for the technical excellence of her voice and her "Botticellian" beauty, Soprano Eames sang in French, German and Italian opera at the Metropolitan from 1891 to 1909 with such glamorous colleagues as Caruso, Sembrich, Schumann-Heink and Melba...
...Erica says, "I hate that label. It's obvious I'm a woman, but what does that have to do with it?" She is well aware that few women have made their mark in the arts, and that they are mostly singers (Schumann-Heink), dancers (Pavlova) or novelists (Jane Austen, the Brontës, George Eliot). There have been women composers like Cécile Chaminade, but no Bachs or Beethovens; painters like Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keeffe, but no Rembrandts or Michelangelos; poets like Sappho and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, but no Dantes...