tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8387588.post115463750809302579..comments2023-10-18T03:53:59.377-04:00Comments on The Last Debate: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Dies at 90Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13524483460829802534noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8387588.post-1154785906221259922006-08-05T09:51:00.000-04:002006-08-05T09:51:00.000-04:00So sad! All the greats are dropping like flies. ...So sad! All the greats are dropping like flies. I still can't get over Birgit's passing this year. :(Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8387588.post-1154714864049477062006-08-04T14:07:00.000-04:002006-08-04T14:07:00.000-04:00Those are lovely recollections of Castel and Ludwi...Those are lovely recollections of Castel and Ludwig. I envy you your memories.<BR/><BR/>I also envy you, in a way, your memories of Schwarzkopf. You are lucky to have had personal contact with her because she really was a huge figure of our times. I have NEVER been a fan of hers, but I admit that she certainly made a mark on her world. With that voice, that was all tricks and mannerisms, she taught everyone a thing or two about sensibility, aesthetic, and the subjectivity of beauty.<BR/><BR/>She represents so much: the continuing strain of German culture which, though beautiful and truthful, cannot escape its connection to political and social cruelty. The power of ambition, talent, and image to overcome a variety of limitations. She is one of the people who dared to pick up the threads of the old German/Austrian music establishment and carry it on through the rubble to renewed nobility. We have her and Fischer-Dieskau and Walter Legge and heaven knows how many other mercenary, self-seeking egotists to thank. We don't want to thank them, but we must.<BR/><BR/>Obviously, I hate to give her her due, but I feel that her passing is somehow momentous. I am rueful that another face from the turbulent life of music in the 20th Century is gone. In terms of impact, she is right up there with Bernstein, Von Karajan, Callas, Pavarotti, and many others. For better or worse, the world that shaped us all is vanishing from view, perhaps never to be reclaimed or properly understood again.Huomiseksihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10217814424049926984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8387588.post-1154649361461434792006-08-03T19:56:00.000-04:002006-08-03T19:56:00.000-04:00I love your Betty Blackhead stories! In fact, I l...I love your Betty Blackhead stories! In fact, I love all master-class stories. Odd that it wasn't until her death that we hear that she was the aunt of Gen. Norman...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com