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Thank you very much for the moving program!!!!!
AG in Washington DC
- Saturday, September 15, 2001 at 21:36:50 (EDT)
Had fun looking at the web site today and listening to some of last year's contestants.
Ian and Janet Cooke <ian@pbrc.hawaii.edu>
- Saturday, September 08, 2001 at 15:17:46 (EDT)
I enjoyed the site and listened this morning to the interview with Huges Cuénonod. I think the Great Songs program is wonderful -- wish we had one here (Lake Charles, LA). I also reviewed your video last year some time. I am interested in bringing art song into the schools here and your work in the area of education is insp
Carol Lines <Cflines@aol.com>
- Sunday, August 19, 2001 at 13:04:18 (EDT)
Thank you so much for the Lotte Lehmann newsletter. I enjoyed reading it and
also enjoyed your site very much. Loved looking at the old photos, some which I had never seen before. Thank you again for sending it to me and and it nice to see that Lotte is not forgotten, far from it actually.
Actually had a good friend of mine over for dinner the other night and I played her several things Lehmann things which she enjoyed very much and wanted to take with her so she could make copies.
Best wishes,
Marco
I saw Lehman after her career was over. She toured with some of her students
and introduced them. They then sang some excerpts from her famous roles. It was a sort of traveling autobiography.
The thing that impressed most was her graciousness on stage. She made that
house seem as if one was in her living room. Then I went backstage to see her and ***crash***. She was not at all gracious to her admirers, the absolute Teutonic stereotype. Ramrod posture, direct speech and without a smile.
Alas I never heard her Marshallin, my friends who did tell me she set the
prototype.
Cheers from John in Walnut Creek, CA
My 93-year-old friend Herta was fascinated. She hasn't quite grasped the concept of interrelated web pages and couldn't believe so much information could be reposited in one place. She has a rickety old machine and can't remember from one minute to the next how to access the internet but the next time I'm there I'll help her find the site, which I checked out and -- well, it's a terrific site. I guess
those video cassettes aren't available yet and I assume that when they are the site will have ordering information? I'd love to buy them.
If you have material about the foundation to mail, could you send it to me?
I'll pass it along to her then.
Kevin
Lotte Lehmann is also one of my favorites, and I am enjoying reading the praises of others. I am more acquainted with her Lieder recordings. The first time I put on the beginning of Die Winterreise by her I was overwhelmed by the fresh immediacy of her voice in the opening phrase (Fremd bin ich eingezogen ...). I felt like she was right there in the room in front of me. I was happy to find, last summer at the Tower in Chicago, a 4-CD set of her Schubert recordings (on an unfamiliar label I can't recall [Lys Dante. ed.]), even though I already had a number of them. I am also very partial to her two recordings of Leise, leise, from Der Freischuetz. Hers is the most turned-on "entzueckt entgegen ihm", even though the recordings by some others might be more mellifluously voiced (Popp, Orgonasova, Gruemmer, Lemnitz).
Jack
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