Hermann Prey, the much-recorded German baritone who was one of the world’s master singers of German lieder as well as a notable interpreter of Mozart, Rossini and Wagner operas, has died, according to ...
Jordan Pyle presents her group's findings on the music of Franz Schubert during the College of Music Scholarship Celebration and Dinner on Oct. 5. The search for the “why” in a handful of Schubert ...
David Denby, in his fine eulogy of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, mentions the difficulty he has relating to the lied repertoire, thanks to “all the plangent aestheticism” of the German Romantic poetry on ...
Clarinetist Don Byron is not the type who cares to be bothered with rigid boundaries. His latest album, "A Fine Line" (Blue Note), gleefully tramples over several of them -- from German lieder and ...
The name of the San Francisco-based organization Lieder Alive! isn’t just hype. Directed by Maxine Bernstein, the group claims to be the only one of its kind in America that is thoroughly dedicated to ...
You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. On Saturday, January 17, at 7:30 p.m., the Oratorio Chorale will sponsor a ...
For Baby Dee, there is no shaping influence. “For most artists, you’re influenced by whatever was big and meaningful for you when you were teenage,” says the singer. “At that age, I was really into ...
While Dietrich is making records in London, Fischer is giving a lieder recital at Carnegie Hall, and Dieskau is appearing as Falstaff at the West Berlin Opera. Or so one critic claims. Actually, ...
On a stormy Sunday, October 24, the audience at Zellerbach Hall was treated to a remarkable celebration of German lieder, or art song, performed by noted tenor Jonas Kaufmann accompanied by Helmut ...