Word: tristans
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...perfection of modern studio recording is one thing. The excitement of live performance is another. Who, for example, would not want to hear two of the century's greatest Wagnerians, Soprano Kirsten Flagstad and Tenor Lauritz Melchior, sing Tristan und Isolde together as they did at the Metropolitan Opera before World War II? Trouble is, Flagstad and Melchior never commercially recorded a complete opera together. For that matter, Melchior never recorded any complete opera...
...every dollar it can get, has decided to go into the "live" record business. That means it is beginning to release its rich legacy of 45 years of Saturday afternoon radio broadcasts. A donation of $100 or more to the Metropolitan Opera Fund will bring the entire performance of Tristan broadcast on Feb. 8, 1941. The sound has been ably transferred from the original transcription discs by RCA Records (which donated its production costs...
Richard Kogan '77, piano, Tamara Mitchel, soprano, appear in solo with the St. Lowell in the Fields Orchestra under the baton of Gerry Moshell. Brahms's Second Piano Concerto, the Prelude and Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, and Brahms's Lieder. Lowell Dining Hall, 8:30 p.m. and repeat performance...
...down concerti for his swan song. Offering several Brahms lieder as an hors d'oeuvre, Moshell at the piano will accompany soprano Tamara Mitchel '78 who might justifiably view these as warm-up exercises; she will then dive into Wagner's incredibly challenging Prelude and Liebestod from the opera Tristan and Isolde...
...years in the German army, in both France and Poland. When he came out of the army he found comradeship with a generation of gifted, irascible young .intellectuals and artists whose loathing of that "whole immense Schweinerei of the imbecilic war" crossed the frontiers of Europe: Jean Arp and Tristan Tzara in Zurich, George Grosz, John Heartfield and Raoul Hausmann in Berlin, Kurt Schwitters in Hannover, André Breton and his growing circle in Paris...