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...that one day I will be the woman?...How can it happen, when, after all, I always remain the same?" So muses the Marschallin, the wise, witty and autumnal beauty in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. For years the part was the special glory of Opera Singer Lotte Lehmann, and its touch of middle-aging melancholy took on a special meaning for her as Soprano Lehmann herself gradually grew too old to sing it (her last Metropolitan Opera appearance in the role...
Last week 69-year-old Lotte Lehmann proved to British radio audiences that, in the sense of the Marschallin's words, she is still the same. In a dozen "master classes" last fall, retired Soprano Lehmann coached 30 students from London's Opera School and young professionals from the Royal Opera House. The Rosenkavalier classes-tape-recorded and now broadcast over BBC-displayed her old magic and the extraordinary musical intelligence that helped make Lotte Lehmann one of the great singers of her time...
...Enough. British radio listeners could hear her remarkable performance, but could not see Teacher Lehmann as she had appeared during the classes on the stage of London's Wigmore Hall-her grey hair knotted in a bun, her handsome, heavy-jawed face lit with flashes of the passion she once sang into her great roles. She circled the stage gesturing, commenting, coaxing. She was trying, she told the singers, to help them develop individuality, not to turn them into "a dozen other Lehmanns" ("I have always enough trouble with this...
Occasionally Lehmann interrupted a singer with a general comment (she recalled Strauss's own advice to her: "Have the courage to stand still"), sometimes spoke delightedly of a favorite passage: "This is one of the wonderful moments that the conductor has to wait for the singer." Said one of her awed young pupils: "I have learned just by being near her. She must have been a fantastically great artist...
...last of the three new chairs, the Florence Corliss Lamont Professorship of Divinity, will be occupied by Paul Lehmann, Parkman Professor of Theology. The Parkman Professorship, which was created in 1829 and is one of the University's oldest professorial chairs, will be filled by John Dillenberger, associate professor of Theology...