Word: klara
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cheap." It cost $2.15. The couple pulled up to a Moscow "wedding palace" in a battered, lemon-yellow Chevy Nova lent by a Greek diplomat. As a piano and string quartet played Mendelssohn's Wedding March, they entered a dark-paneled chamber. The bride and groom promised Klara Remeshkova, the equivalent of a justice of the peace, that they would preserve their love for all their lives, be faithful and loyal and stand together in love and sorrow...
...collection is also distinguished by its Grosz drawings, examples of his most incisive social criticism, and by a few single gems: Franz Marc's Two Studies for Horses (a preliminary sketch for his painting, Blue Horses), Max Beckmann's horrific The Last Ones (1919), Otto Dix's almost surreal Klara (1920), Schmidt-Rottluff's Seated Nude Facing Left...
Scrap Tristan and put on Tosca. At the Met-which has fielded three Tristans for an act apiece rather than switch operas for a single performance-it was a disastrous suggestion. Schuyler Chapin, Gentele's successor as manager, rejected the idea, hired a minor singer named Klara Barlow to sing Isolde, and pulled together cast and production...
Skipped Sleep. It was a numerologist who made the somewhat mysterious suggestion that "Klara Barlow" would suit her better professionally than her own name, Alma Williams. She made her New York recital debut in 1954. Critics were enthusiastic, but her career did not develop. By 1961, twice divorced and with a nine-year-old daughter to support, she headed for Europe. In minor German opera houses she at last found regular work. And loneliness. "The towns are gray, and Germans stick to themselves," she says. "You have only your colleagues and new roles...
...left in my head." What's left is usually plenty, although last September she had to skip a night's sleep to do the taxing lead role in Strauss's Elektra in Berlin on 17 hours' notice. Those days would seem to be over for Klara Barlow...