Highlights of the Lehmann Centennial

• Vienna Opera's Lehmann tribute on her l00th birthday, February 27, 1988.
• Music Academy of the West tribute. School year dedicated to Lehmann.
• Many radio and TV commemorative programs in Europe and America in February.
• New York Wagner Society panel discussion with recordings.
• Risë Stevens interviewed about Lehmann during Metropolitan Opera intermission broadcast.
• Lotte Lehmann: A Life in Opera & Song, by Beaumont Glass, published in March 1988 by Capra Press, Santa Barbara. Includes full discography.
• Lotte Lehmann Archives, University of California, Santa Barbara, sponsored a day symposium May 28-31 with concert, lectures.
• Three-record set of previousty unreleased songs produced by William Moran and issued by UCSB Lehmann Archives.
• EMI released two Lehmann compect disks, Opera Arias and Die Walküre, First Act, under Great Recordings of the Century.
• Alan Jefferson's Lotte Lehmann: A Centenary Biography was published by Julia MacRae Books, London, with Floris Juynboll discography.
• Richard Exner's Symposium lecture on Hofmannsthal, Strauss, Lehmann published by UCSB Library.
• Wm. Moran completed technical work for an RCA-produced CD of songs by Lehmann.
• Preiser of Vienna issued Volumc VI of their Lehmann "Lebendige Vergangenheit" LP series, this one of opera arias.
• Articles on Lehmann and reviews of the Glass and Jefferson biographies appeared throughout the year in prominent magazines and newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Opera News and Opera Quarterly.
• Music Academy of the West presented Judith Beckmann in premiere of Sieben Lehmannlieder by Thomas Pasatieri, a song cycle based on poems by Lotte Lehmann.