Word: lieder
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...Paganini players were only part of his cast. Last week thousands of Ravinia fans, sitting on blankets on the dimly floodlit grass, listened to Soprano Lotte Lehmann, whose lieder voice, beamed Knight, "is as near to chamber music as you can get-intimate, romantic." And they heard Chilean Pianist Claudio Arrau playing Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven, as a soloist and in ensemble with the Paganini...
...Stoutz has installed 71 jukeboxes in Geneva, Zurich and Basel. Musical preferences run along regional lines: German Swiss like polkas, marches, German Lieder and cowboy songs; French Swiss choose American jazz and French songs; Italian Swiss insert their 20-cen-time pieces for the arias of Beniamino Gigli. The overall favorites, however, are Music, Music, Music and Chattanooga Shoeshine...
Works to be performed include Paul Hindemith's Abendkonzert: Trio fur Blockfloten, Frederic Chopin's Nocturne in G Minor, George Philip Telemann's Four Songs from Ausewahite Lieder, Alessandre Scarlatti's Sonata a Guettro, and the Trio Sonata in D by Johann Joachim Guautz. Twelve 'Cliffe students will participate in the program...
Although her last singing of the Marschallin at the Metropolitan in 1945 brought her a 20-minute ovation, she decided soon afterward that it was time to "let go." Two years ago she resolved to give up opera and operatic arias completely, sing only less strenuous lieder. She limited her concert tours to two months a year, spent the remaining ten months at her California home. When she wasn't singing, she painted watercolors, fired ceramics of her own design in her home kiln, worked on her fifth book, Of Heaven, Hell and Hollywood...
Last summer, he seemed at last to have found what he was looking for when he married Charlotte Tiedemann, a plump, blonde Lieder-singer from Germany. But the new Duchess of Segovia also seemed to have given the duke new dynastic ambitions...