Word: lehmann
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...musical folk to take the midsummer pilgrimage to bask in the glory of Richard Wagner. In the U. S. his glory spread more slowly. At first it was the matter of importing a great new musical idea, a new school of conductors, singers. There came the day then of Lehmann, of Ternina, Fremstad, Schumann-Heink, of Jean de Reszke, Anton Seidl, of Toscanini-and Wagner was indeed a Titan. There came the War, and German singers, German music were in disfavor, but Wagner grew even in exile. His operas crept back into the repertoire one by one until Lohengrin...
...Washington. There followed study in New York, with Farrar the Student a frequent standee at the "Met," learning the ways of Melba, Calvé, Lilli Lehmann, Jean de Reszké, learning to her greater advantage what pleased the purse-poor folk around her who scarcely missed a performance. She studied a year in Washington, was taken one afternoon to call on Mrs. McKinley. News came: DEWEY VICTORIOUS AT MANILA?and Farrar, still the Student, sat down at the piano, played and sang the "Star Spangled Banner...
...much shaking of heads. Was not Norma 96 years old, relic of another age when song had been all-important and there were such phenomena as singers? Was not Norma the most exacting role ever set before a prima donna and had anyone ever done it justice since Lilli Lehmann last sang it at the Metropolitan...
...York Symphony is next oldest to the New York Philharmonic in the U. S. It has introduced to the U. S. such famed composers as Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Stravinsky, Elgar, Rimsky-Korsakov; introduced such artists as Paderewski, Kreisler, Saint-Saens, Sarasate, Lilli Lehmann and Hans von Bulow. It has toured some 400,000 miles, played to 8,000,000. Harry Harkness Flagler is the sole guarantor...
...DUSTY ANSWER-Rosamond Lehmann-Henry Holt...