The pages shown are from Lehmann’s typed manuscript in which she offers an account of her meeting with Goering. The corrections may be by Frances Holden. For a different version, you can read what Lehmann’s biographer, Dr. Kater wrote for this The Raul...
Banalités Text by Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 – 1918) [pseudonym] 1. Chanson d’Orkenise Par les portes d’Orkenise Veut entrer un charretier. Par les portes d’Orkenise Veut sortir un va-nu-pieds. Et les gardes de la ville Courant sus au...
Elly Ameling Dominick Argento Adelheid Armhold, had been a Lieder specialist in Germany. Left for South Africa where she had a decent career. She ended up in Kailua, where I interviewed her and at the end of the interview she sang a phrase of Beethoven’s Ich liebe...
This is how Leopold Stokowski looked to me the first time I played under his baton. We was almost 86, but still full of energy and musicality. That very first rehearsal, which has been preserved, was held in the Felt Forum, at the new Madison Square Garden, which he...
Here’s what Beaumont Glass wrote about Constance Hope and Lehmann: Her accompanist [Ernö Balogh] urged her to hire a publicist. America is such an enormous country. Good notices in New York papers are not necessarily read in Detroit or New Orleans or Kansas City....
Märkische Allgemeine, 17. Januar 1998 Der Baron und seine Protegé Die Operndiva Lotte Lehmann und Konrad Gans Edler Herr zu Putlitz Von Peter Hahn Von Baron Konrad Gans Edler Herr zu Putlitz gefördert, von Otto Klemperer auf die Bühne der Hamburger Oper geholt, von...
