Word: lieder
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Brahms: Alto Rhapsodie, Three Lieder...
...musical satires* floored them completely. Stoop-shouldered, solemn Templeton would sit at the piano and reproduce the sound of a whole Wagnerian opera, pounding out brass chords, yodeling out-of-tune soprano arias and throaty German tenor recitatives. From Wagnerian opera he would turn to Italian opera, lieder singing, Gilbert & Sullivan, the bedlam inside a music conservatory. Last week Pianist Templeton brought his improvisations and caricatures to Carnegie Hall, where they formed the dessert of a program of more conventional piano music. Crotchety highbrow critics hemmed & hawed about his straight playing, but they had to admit that his mimicry...
Brahms Song Society, Volume I (Alexander Kipnis, bass, Gerald Moore, pianist; Victor: 12 sides). Fourteen of Brahms's best-known Lieder, including the Vier ernste Gesänge, sung by an acknowledged master...
Alec Templeton: Musical Impressions, Satires & Improvisations (Gramophone Shop, Inc., 18 East 48th Street, Manhattan: 8 sides). Blind musical Satirist Templeton's one-man caricatures of Wagnerian Opera, Lieder singing, etc., have long been featured entertainment at Rockefeller Center's swanky Rainbow-Room. Their recorded versions are guaranteed to split the solemnest concertgoer's sides...
Courses C and E serve students of about tile same competence. Those who have attained a grade of A or B in German A may enter the latter, which is the one ordinarily taken after passing the cp3 entrance examination. Although Lieder's lectures tend to be uninspiring, the fact that E is exclusively a reading course, while C entails considerable grammar and composition, attracts many students to the former. Mr. Hawkes has made an excellent course out of German D, taking much personal interest in the students. It is much the best one in which to learn to speak...