Lotte Lehmann & Her Legacy
Volume 2
By Gary Hickling
Before the preliminary material, here’s a clip from Lehmann’s appearance in MGM’s Big City.
Volume 2: Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Preface
- Dedication
- Chapter 1: Short Bio: A mini-biography
- Chapter 2: Third Career II: Her teaching
- Chapter 3: Misconceptions: Who she was and wasn’t
- Chapter 4: Lehmann’s Conductors: Mini-biographies of the conductors with whom she worked
- Chapter 5: The Lehmann I Knew: My personal recollections
- Chapter 6: The Lehmann Others Knew: The personal recollections of many others
- Chapter 7: Her Legendary Marschallin: The role for which Lehmann is best remembered
- Chapter 8: Dichterliebe: Lehmann’s art, reading, singing, and teaching of the cycle
- Chapter 9: Arias & Lieder II: With interleaved commentary
- Chapter 10: Comparisons II: Singers of her time (especially Maria Jeritza)
- Chapter 11: Rare & Well Done II: Test pressings and rarities
- Chapter 12: What Critics Wrote: Her reviews, both positive and negative
- Chapter 12.1: Lehmann’s Reviews
- Chapter 13: Tributes: Recorded tributes and a list of accolades that followed her death
- Chapter 14: Exclusive Lehmann Photos II: Seldom seen photos, Dr. Schornstein’s collection, and her art
- Chapter 15: Her Words II: Lehmann’s prose and poetry
- Chapter 16: Music Academy of the West: Its history and my memories there
- Chapter 17: Frances Holden: Who she was and what she meant in Lehmann’s life
- Chapter 18: Enduring Fame: How Lehmann’s name has endured
- Chapter 19: Chronology: A list of Lehmann’s performances
- Chapter 20: Lehmann Meets Goering: Her story and Dr. Michael Kater’s differing perspective
- About the Author