excerpt from 'Musings & memories of a musician' pp. 12-13 (102 words)
excerpt from 'Musings & memories of a musician' pp. 12-13 (102 words)
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Indeed he [Dr. Leopold Damrosch] was an enthusiastic apostle of what was then called " Zukunftsmusik " (Music of the Future), and one of the early champions of Liszt and Wagner. At these concerts the Soprano Soli were frequently sung by Dr. Damrosch's beautiful wife, Helene von Heimburg, a singer of rare accomplishments, and gifted with a most sympathetic voice. Her singing, for instance, of the part of "Die Jungfrau" in Schumann's Paradise and Peri still lingers in my memory, as I am sure it does in that of all who had the good fortune to hear it, as something singularly beautiful and touching.
Indeed he [Dr. Leopold Damrosch] was an enthusiastic apostle of what was then called " Zukunftsmusik " (Music of the Future), and one of the early champions of Liszt and Wagner. At these concerts the Soprano Soli were frequently sung by Dr. Damrosch's beautiful wife, Helene von Heimburg, a singer of rare accomplishments, and gifted with a most sympathetic voice. Her singing, for instance, of the part of "Die Jungfrau" in Schumann's Paradise and Peri still lingers in my memory, as I am sure it does in that of all who had the good fortune to hear it, as something singularly beautiful and touching. |
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