LL Teaches the role of the Marschallin

Judith Beckman(n) and her husband Irving, worked with Lehmann in master classes in the 1960s and beyond, as you’ll read from this recent (2016) correspondence. “We have no tapes of our private lessons, which took place in what may have been in Mme...

My Lovin’ Volume 2

More Family My father deserves a chapter all to himself, as does my brother Steve. My Uncle Bob and Aunt Mary, and their daughter, my cousin Roberta, played a really small fraction in my life. The same applies to my father’s father, who wasn’t a good person, (on my...

My Lovin’ Volume 2

Mom’s Art Mom painted this one of me in watercolor. Mom sculpted this as a student Another student work in charcoal A mature Xmas block (l) and and early one before Steve arrived. The two angles on the candle were of course supposed to be Steve and me. With...

My Lovin’ Volume 2 Chapter 1

Chapter 1 My Whole FamDamly Whole FamDamly! and there weren’t that many to account for. My mother didn’t have siblings. Her mother was the only family member that I loved. We called her Nana and everyone else said Silver (my father had once noticed her up on the...