Poster on its way

We had a Trivia Contest last issue, with, as prize, a Vienna Opera poster o~f the performance dedicated to Lotte Lehmann on her lOOth birthday. The question was, whenceforth cometh the quote on the front cover of our Newsletter, "Wir sind Euer Liebden in aller Ewigkeit verbunden"? Very shortly after we had mailed the newsletters, I found a message on my tape recorder, "This is Pat (Jennings) Armstrong,...I know exactly what that quote is because it's the part that I sang with her (Music Academy) production of Rosenkavalier, -it's one of the first things that Sophie says in the second act, where she's speaking to the Rosenkavalier...'I am to your honor much indebted. I am to your honor to all eternity indebted' Now, the translation that we used was... 'I'll be for your kindness in all eternity most grateful' And I hope I win that poster!"

And she did! A couple days later vocal teacher Shirley Sproule called from Tucson, Arizona. She was another Lehmann master class student who well remembered the lines.

When Gary Hickling and I were starting to put the first newsletter together, I thought we ought to have a slogan, and asked my friend Mr. Rudolph Joseph if he could think of an appropriate quote from Der Rosenkavalier. He immediately replied, "Ich bin Euer Liebden in aller Ewigkeit verbunden." And that was that. He wasn't assistant to a top theatrical producer in Berlin at the age of 19 for nothing. In the 1950's he set up the fiLm department for Brooks lnstitute of Photography in Santa Barbara. He had a curious clause in his contract which allowed him to go to the Music Academy any time that Lehmann was giving a master class. -JS