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...Lehmann fans the performance in Manhattan's Town Hall had the air of a religious rite. They sat devout and mouse-quiet while the singer, dressed in sober black, her chestnut hair caught back in a plain bun, leaned gently against the curve of the piano. Without properties, costume or conspicuous gesture, Soprano Lehmann recreated the aging Viennese beauty with her oldtime fire and finesse...
These words of sage advice, sung to her mirror image by the aging Marschallin in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, are largely ignored by grand-opera stars. But to 61-year-old German-born Soprano Lotte Lehmann, who for 25 years sang them with unsurpassed eloquence, they have long had the weight of dogma...
Last week Lotte Lehmann, in the East for recitals and her first one-man show of paintings, went back on her resolution. To honor her good friend Richard Strauss, who died last summer (TIME, Sept. 19), and to mark her 50th Manhattan recital in a decade, she decided to sing once more the first-act monologues from her most famous role, the Marschallin...
...minute after she sang her final words of wistful resignation, the audience was silent, then burst into seat-rattling applause. At intermission Lehmann had said, her eyes shining: "Fifty concerts! Aren't you tired of me?" At recital's end, the audience answered with cries of "More! More!" They brought her back for three encores...
Bach: St. Matthew Passion (Elfriede Troetschel, soprano; Diana Eutrati, contralto; Friedrich Haertel, bass; D. Fi-scher-Dieskau, baritone; Helmut Kreps, tenor; Boys' Choir of St. Hedwig's Cathedral, the augmented choir and orchestra of the Berlin Radio, Fritz Lehmann conducting; Vox, 8 sides LP). One of the first postwar German recordings. Bach's great score is unabridged, the orchestra and chorus are fine, the soloists are good. Recording: excellent...