Word: lieder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...triumphant singing swing through Southeast Asia, velvet-voiced Contralto Marian Anderson has played to capacity houses at all stops, wowed audiences with her versatile concert program-German lieder, Italian classics...
...while last summer, it looked as if the kids might have found one. Calypso jounced and jingled into earshot, but in the end turned out to be loss lieder. Industry plotters pegged Hawaiian music for the next turntable fad, found the kids not in a hula mood. Rock 'n' roll faltered slightly when ballads (Love Letters in the Sand, Tammy) began catching on again, and a few of the U.S.'s disk jockeys report that ballads are continuing to cut into rock 'n' roll popularity. From staid Boston, WBZ's Bill Marlowe states flatly...
Miss Aspinall, who has taught at Juilliard and Vassar College, will perform Schubert lieder and excerpts from Hindemith's song cycle "Das Marienleben." She will be accompanied by Robert Middleton...
Next Miss Smith plunged into the thick of the lieder repertoire: Schumann, Brahms, and Hugo Wolf. She was most effective in the five songs by Wolf, combining sensitive interpretation with some stunning tones. Nun Wandre, Maria and In Dem Schatten were especially lovely. The major novelty on the program was the presence of five songs by an Argentinean composer, Ginastera. Two of his songs Tristo and Gato, stood out as being more than merely energetic. The able accompanist of the evening, Jon Thackery, showed his technical agility in Gato...
...group of German lieder by Brahms went less well. Although Miss Providakes' dark quality is excellent for these songs, the deep sense of longing of the "Feldeinsamkeit," and the fierce dedication of "Von ewiger Liebe" did not come across. In these selections, however, the singer was distinctly hampered by heavy-footed and often overbearing accompaniment; there was little or no blending...