Word: lieder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perfected an almost frightening imitation of the Prime Minister delivering one of his televised globe-side chats: his Macmillan is a semi-paralyzed, desperately senile ass who bleats bromides in a faltering Edwardian drawl. Moore is a most accomplished musician, and he has composed several most accomplished parodies of lieder by Schubert (this one called "Eine Flabbergast"), songs by Faure and Benjamin Britten and a piano sonata by Beethoven...
...March 14) but no title for their first collaborative musical, about which they are keeping mum. Rick Be-soyan, who wrote Off Broadway's phenomenally successful Little Mary Sunshine, has done another parody of the schmalzerettas of the '20s called The Student Gypsy, or The Prince of Lieder-krcmz. Starring Eileen (Little Mary) Brennan, this one is for Broadway (Jan. 31). England's red-brick musical, Stop The World-I Want to Get Off, is a rags-to-Establishment story (Oct. 3). Sid Caesar has eight roles-four husbands, four lovers-in Little Me, based on Patrick...
...German lied is a highly perishable article--a gracious and intimate form of musical entertainment which, in the hands of singers less gifted than Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, rarely finds a congenial concert setting. On Wednesday night, Madame Schwarzkopf, assisted by her excellent pianist John Wustman, offered lieder of Schubert, Wolf, and Strauss to a large audience at the Harvard Square Theatre, and it is a measure of her artistry that every nuance of these songs, every dramatic point and humorous inflection, was as telling as it might have been in the living-room of someone's home...
...stage until the blanket denazifications of 1946. About the same time, she was signed to a recording contract by Record Impresario Walter Legge, whom she later married. Now she is virtually alone among big-time singers in trying to divide her time equally between opera, oratorio and lieder, a happy balance, she thinks, "vocally, stylistically and emotionally...
...sing at La Scala and the first Negro romantic lead at the Metropolitan Opera-dazzling Coloratura Mattiwilda Dobbs, 36, achieved another breakthrough: a desegregated concert in the Municipal Auditorium of her native Atlanta, Ga. Winning exultant plaudits from an audience of 3,000 with a repertory ranging from Brahms lieder to spirituals, the former First Congregational Church soloist beamingly accepted a basket of roses from Atlanta's Mayor Ivan Allen, who told her: "You have brought honor to Atlanta.'' Responded Mattiwilda: "My heart is so full ... I just...