Word: liebestod
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Wedding in Weehawken. In 1934 white-maned Walter Damrosch visited St. Louis to guest-conduct the annual German singing societies Sängerjest, and was outraged to learn that a local soprano had been signed as one of the soloists. After a rehearsal of the Liebestod he mopped his brow excitedly,, kissed Traubel and said: "My dear, I brought...
...Rhine maiden in a grass skirt, to try to make her laugh. Once, when she leaned tenderly over his body on the couch in the last act of Tristan, in the scene where Tristan dies of wounds inflicted by a jealous rival, Melchior muttered: "Helena, hurry up the Liebestod (love death). I'm hungry and I need a beer...
Stylistically her book is as flat and wit less as a harmonica rendition of the Liebestod, but it does furnish a few peeks -between boudoir blackouts - at some of the men who make art a mystery...
...Tristan & Isolde, Excerpts from Act III (Lauritz Melchior and Herbert Janssen with the orchestra of the Colon Opera, Buenos Aires, and the Columbia Opera Orchestra, Roberto Kinsky and Erich Leinsdorf, conductors; Columbia; 10 sides). A superb slice of Tristan's last act, including almost everything except the famed Liebestod (which is separately available). Melchior, greatest of living Tristans, sings his mad scene as though he meant it. Recording: excellent...
Most of the eleven Brett Stokowskis are luminous, elongated impressions in which Conductor Stokowski seems to be swooning under water. In Leopold Stokowski Conducting Parsifal there is only a Stokowski-like manifestation, a sickle moon, blank planes of periwinkle blue, and a cometlike effulgence. In Liebestod No. 2 (Love Death), a pale Stokowski wears a rose-colored nimbus which also haloes his cupped, coaxing hands...