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Died. Lotte Lehmann, 88, famed German-born prima donna and legendary lieder singer; at her home in Santa Barbara, Calif. A warm, sensitive actress whose amber soprano was infinitely expressive, Lehmann could electrify an audience by merely stepping on the stage. She made her debut with the Hamburg Opera in 1910, four years later with the Vienna Opera, where she created several roles for her friend Richard Strauss, and in 1934 with the Metropolitan. Notable among her 100 roles were her yielding Sieglinde in Die Walküre, her devout Elisabeth in Tannhäuser and, most outstanding...
...overcome "the mistaken vanity of singers." his alternative: "I have striven to restrict music to its true office of serving poetry by means of expression and by following the situations of the story, without interrupting the action or stifling it with a useless superfluity of ornaments." Although Italian prima donnas pay little attention to their words, Gluck heaped praises on the "heartfelt language" of his librettist, Ranieri Calzabigi, who also collaborated on Gluck's first big success, Orfeo ed Euridice...
Marriage Revealed. Cynthia Gregory, 29, America's foremost prima ballerina, currently in voluntary exile; and John Hemminger, 34, formerly the manager of singer Tim Hardin; she for the second time, he for the first; in Santo Domingo...
...This flatly contradicts the report of the first committee, which noted explicitly that "in normal academic practice, as embodied in policy statements of the American Association of University Professors, past practice at Harvard, and the legislation establishing the review committee, there is a presumption that, upon showing of a prima facie case by the aggrieved party... it is incumbent upon those responsible for the decision in question to come forward with a statement or reason...
However, the report of the Hartman Review Committee stated that "in normal academic practice, as embodied in policy statements of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP], past practice at Harvard, and the legislation establishing the review committee, there is a presumption that, upon the showing of a prima facie case by the aggrieved party, before a duly constituted body, it is incumbent upon those responsible for the decision in question to come forward with a statement of reasons...