Word: schumann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best performed part of the program was Schumann's Kreisleriana. Technique and interpretation were absolutely beyond reproach. But it is difficult to understand why he devoted so many hours of practice to such an undistinguished piece of music. Kreisleriana is dull and repetitions. And Lewin scrupulously palyed all sixteen of the indicated repeats. If he has some special love for this piece, he might at least have shorn it of it superfluities...
...constitutional assembly," said Friedrich, "is like the American meeting at Annapolis before the Philadelphia convention in 1789." This body, he disclosed, will submit a draft of the constitution to the Schumann Plan Assembly on October 23, who will then offer a final copy to the parliaments of France, Germany, Italy, and the Benelux nations...
...Schumann: Symphonic Etudes (Edward Kilenyi; Remington). The romantic variations are played rather wilfully, but in the grand manner. The record is engineered well enough to put low-priced Remington in direct competition with more expensive labels...
...Schumann: Dichterliebe: Wolf: Four Songs (Gérard Souzay; Jacqueline Bonneau, pianist; London). Souzay's melting baritone blends intimate crooning and masculine vigor in performances of firm conviction. Recording: mellow...
...last of the great divas* of the "golden age of opera"; in Manhattan. Famed for the technical excellence of her voice and her "Botticellian" beauty, Soprano Eames sang in French, German and Italian opera at the Metropolitan from 1891 to 1909 with such glamorous colleagues as Caruso, Sembrich, Schumann-Heink and Melba...