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...
Introduction This volume of my memories is the more personal of the two volumes (sorry no sex in either volume). It just seemed more reasonable as there will be readers with different interests (if any) in my life and its adventures (at least they seem so to me). As...
Steichen’s 1934 portrait of Lehmann as the Marschallin Herman Klein: Writing about a Rosenkavalier performance conducted by Beecham [at Covent Garden], Klein had complaints about several singers, but then wrote that Beecham “had an even finer Marschallin than Margaret...
This page will attempt to bring together all the information that’s available on this website about Lehmann’s portrayal of the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss . Since Lehmann is best known for that role it’s interesting to see where she sang the...
My introduction commentary to this music Lehmann sings with my commentary on the monolog, words seen above. Lehmann sings “Kann mich auch…” without commentary. This is taken from the famous 1933 HMV recording of Der Rosenkavalier with Robert Heger...
