Word: lieder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Frieda Hempel, 70, German-born Metropolitan Opera and concert soprano; of cancer; in Berlin. Famed for her repertory of about 70 roles, her command of lieder and her virtuosity (G-sharp above high C), Mme. Hempel was offered her choice of any of the three female leads in Der Rosenkavalier by Composer Richard Strauss, created the role of the Marschallin in the 1911 premiére in Berlin...
Brahms to Grimm. Their German colleagues, on their second visit in the U.S., included 31 girls and six boys. In bright red skirts and brown knee britches, they earnestly sang folk songs, lieder by Brahms and Schumann, warbled gay Renaissance madrigals. Most ambitious number on their program: The Bremen Town...
...dark, that is, of the German soul. In Mann's sensibility, the yawning portal of burgher respectability leads only to hell-that same hell in which Nietzsche, lonely and restless, contracted the syphilis that drove him insane, and in which sentimental devotees of Brahms Lieder ran concentration camps...
Kirsten Flagstad (Victor). Lieder by Schubert, Brahms, Strauss, both gentle and dramatic, sung with the melting grace and liquid power that few singers can match. An interesting comparison can be made with A Milanov Recital (also Victor), in which the Metropolitan Opera soprano pours her opulent tones into a pair of the same tunes (among others), but makes them sound like Verdi...
...would be useless. Lyon Phelps, Angus Fletcher, Ruth Whitman, and Hugh Amory have made contributions which will in some cases richly repay close reading. I cannot omit mentioning, however, the thrill of discovery which I have experienced in the course of my readings of Mr. Amory's Lieder and his Prothalamium. I find them the most exquisite and successful achievements in the magazine. That the Lieder have probed so centrally into a relationship, that the Prothalamium attains a ritual by means of manifold yet consistently intense gestures-and that all this is done with a subtlety of technique which...