Word: lieder
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...York Stadium contest (prize: the right to appear with the New York Symphony Orchestra). In 1930, she decided that she must study in Germany. When she had perfected her lieder, songs by Schubert, Brahms, Wolf, she gave her first concert on the Continent. It cost her $500 (the Germans explained that it was customary for Americans to pay 'for their own concerts). She never paid again...
Richard Strauss: Songs (Lotte Lehmann, soprano, accompanied by Paul Ulanowsky, pianist; Columbia, 4 sides). The great lieder singer's first album of Strauss songs. Included are the haunting Allerseelen and the popular Morgen. Performance: excellent...
Schubert: Songs from Die Schöne Müllerin (Lotte Lehmann, soprano, accompanied by Paul Ulanowsky; Columbia, 14 sides). The greatest modern lieder artist (TIME, Jan. 28) in a deeply affecting recording of the Schubert pastoral song cycle. Performance: excellent...
...people tried their best to sing Vienna's lustige Lieder (jolly songs), but it was not easy. A current favorite revival was "In the Prater the trees bloom again," but few Viennese could sing it without remembering that their Prater amusement park was a mass of charred plaster and twisted steel...
...customer also arranged Ellabelle's first professional appearance in an all-Negro opera at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (TIME, Dec. 22, 1941). In subsequent concerts touring the U.S. Ellabelle sang arias and German lieder, but no spirituals ("in New Rochelle I've never even seen an old-fashioned revival meeting...