Word: traubel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Schumann: Frauenliebe und Leben (Helen Traubel, soprano, with Pianist Coenraad V. Bos; Victor: 8 sides; $3.75). Romantic Robert Schumann wrote Woman's Love and Life-eight songs to poems by Chamisso-to hymn domestic love. Warm-voiced Soprano Traubel puts proper schmalz in such lines as (to a wedding ring) I place thee, holy object, upon my lips, my heart...
...white-haired, senatorial Walter Damrosch went to St. Louis to conduct a Saengerjest held by St. Louis' song-loving German-Americans. Billed as soloist on his program was a tall, buxom, blonde St. Louis soprano named Helen Traubel. When he heard her sing he excitedly mopped his brow, advised her to apply for a job at Manhattan's Metropolitan. In 1937, when Conductor Damrosch's opera The Man without a Country was premiered during the Metropolitan's minor-league spring season, Helen Traubel sang its leading role, and springtime critics gave her top marks...
Last week, singing Sieglinde opposite such champions as Kirsten Flagstad, Kerstin Thorborg and Lauritz Melchior, Helen Traubel made her official Metropolitan debut. Manhattan's debutasters trooped in droves to hear her, stayed to cheer, for they heard one of the finest heavyweight Wagnerian soprano voices to turn up at the Metropolitan since Kirsten Flagstad's debut...