Word: lieder
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...soprano who can trill for a quarter of a century on the coloratura's high and skittish vocal trapeze is a notable rarity; this musical generation has Lily Pons. At an age (about 48) when most coloraturas seek the terra firma of German Lieder (where they can be expected to last indefinitely), Trouper Lily pours out her Caro Nome, her Bell Song from Lakme and other acrobatic items of coloratura literature, and gives more than a dozen opera performances and two dozen concerts a year...
...years, eight of them as a member (1936-44) of U.C.L.A.'s music faculty. Here & there, pianists occasionally programmed Schoenberg music, vocalists sang his songs, orchestras and chamber groups performed his longer works, e.g., the symphonic poem Pelleas and Melisande, the melodrama Pierrot Lunaire and Gurre-Lieder, songs for voice and chamber orchestra. To all but his most devoted fans, the music still sounded harsh. But Schoenberg never once let up in his battle for his twelve-tone system...
...audience in Manhattan's Town Hall one night last week was prepared for an evening of fine lieder singing from Lotte Lehmann. When Soprano Lehmann remained standing in the curve of the piano at intermission, it was clear that she had something further on her mind. Said she: "This is my farewell recital in New York...
...George Bernard Shaw, then a passage from Euripides, finally a leisurely talk with Guest Pamela Brown (the leading woman of Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning) about a ghost in London's Drury Lane Theater. With these ingredients, and a background of German lieder played on a guitar, Actress Lilli Palmer (currently starring with husband Rex Harrison in Broadway's Bell, Book and Candle) last week began a new TV show over Manhattan's station WCBS-TV (Thurs...
...Scarlatti's Le Violette, then navigated the vocal rapids of an aria from Handel's Joshua with sureness and poise. In a full, flowing voice, at its darkest the color of a ripe Spanish olive, she sang easily (if a trifle affectedly) through a group of German lieder and on to the songs of her native Spain. In her last encore, she gracefully accompanied herself on the guitar...