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Because music is so important to Lieder-loving Germans, music is also important to the German Government. For generations opera houses and music schools have been supported by the state. When, in 1933, the Nazis came into power, one of their first concerns was the organization, with characteristic German thoroughness, of Germany's musical life along strictly Nazi lines. Dominant in the official Nazi attitude toward music were: 1) the Nazi theories of race, 2) Nazi objections to all satirical, "unwholesome" or experimental types of art. Public performance of works by Jewish composers like Mendelssohn and Gustav Mahler...
Founded by the well-known Lieder-singer and Schubert authority, white-haired, pipe-smoking Reinhold von Warlich, London's new Schubert Society has met with extraordinary support from England's musical and social bigwigs. Patrons include two princesses, a sheaf of baronesses & countesses, illustrious scientists and world-renowned musicians. But the most interesting name on its letterheads is that of its president, Carola Geisler-Schubert, lifelong friend of Liedersinger von Warlich and granddaughter of Schubert's brother Ferdinand...
...made her U. S. debut in Manhattan's Town Hall month before last, few U. S. concertgoers had ever heard of her. Last week, as Soprano Pitzinger finished her first U. S. tour, delighted critics went back a whole generation for their comparisons, acclaimed her as the greatest Lieder singer since Wüllner, Gulp and Gerhardt. Thirty-two-year-old Soprano Pitzinger learned Lieder as a girl from Bohemian peasants, studied more with Vienna's famed Lieder composer, Joseph Marx. Five years ago she braved a Berlin recital, became an overnight sensation. In London last...
...Lieder-singing takes a lot more doing than run-of-the-opera-house singing, and great Lieder singers are rare. Even world-famous opera stars come a cropper when they attempt Lieder; only a handful of them (Marcella Sembrich, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Lotte Lehmann) have ever satisfied the connoisseurs. Most great Lieder singers are specialists. Greatest of them in recent years have been: i) Dr. Ludwig Wüllner, who started life as a professor of philology in Münster, toured the U. S. in 1908-10; 2) Julia Gulp, a Dutch contralto (originally a violinist as well...
Miss Emmy Heim, noted Viennese Lieder singer, will give a lecture-recital accompanied by D.J. Grout in Paine Hall tonight at 8:15 o'clock. The public will be admitted free of charge...