Happy Birthday Uta Graf
Ancona21
Born: January 5, 1915 - Karlsruhe, Germany
Died: February 17, 1995
The German lyric soprano, Uta Graf, studied with Ria Ginster, Helene
Schlusnus and Anna Bahr-Mildenburg.
Uta Graf made her professional debut in 1940 in Düsseldorf. Between
1941 and 1943 she performed at the Aachen Opera. During 1943-1944 she
was a member of the Cologne Opera and was a guest artist at the opera
houses in Dresden and Stuttgart. The great Chilean pianist Claudio
Arrau invited her to perform in the USA and she made her North
American debut as Sophie in Strauss’s Rosenkavalier at the San Antonio
Opera in 1948. She remained in the USA until 1954 at the San Francisco
Opera and guested at the Toronto Opera. She also undertook appearances
and concert tours in South America. Graf appeared at Covent Garden
(1950-1951), the Netherlands Opera (1955-1958) and during this period
guested at the Vienna State Opera and the Munich State Opera. On
several occasions she participated in the Holland Festival, and was a
cast member of the first performance of Henri Tomasi’s opera Sampiero
Corso in 1958.
Later Uta Graf returned to the USA where she concentrated her
activities on the concert hall and teaching. She became a member of
the music faculty at the Peabody Conservatory in Boston between
1958-1966 and was appointed a Professor at the Manhattan School of
Music, New York.
Married to the concert master Pierre Breyer, Uta Graf worked with
musicians such as Leopold Stokowski, Josef Krips, Paul Hindemith and
Fritz Lehmann.
Uta Graf's records appear on the Allegro Elite, Concert Hall and
Columbia labels and include The Tales of Hoffmann, Missa Solemnis,
Schumann’s Frauenliebe und Leben, Arnold Schoenberg’s Quartet No. 2,
Op. 10 (with the Juilliard Quartet), Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, J.S.
Bach’s Mass in B Minor (BWV 232) and Don Giovanni.
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I don't have a clip to post on the RMO Birthday site, but to give you
an idea of the depth of my devotion to Uta have a look at this:
http://tinyurl.com/In-Love-With-Uta-Graf
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Dorme Riposa
LOL Dr. House...
I actually saw the lady sing Micaela when I was an early teenager just
beginning to attend operas. I remember only that she was a blonde
(didn't know at the time that all Micaelas were) and I loved her name
and kept repeating it out loud at home to the point that my parents
became irritated at me. Kinda like Seymour Glass.
Helas, I was already under the spell of Albanese's Micaela on records.
Do you like Rita Ginster? Some years ago I listened repeatedly to a
long compilation of her singing Lieder. I found this just now on
Youtube:
dabid
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Was she related to Herbert? I like the song.
Ed
Pat
Uta Graf came from quite a remarkable family, you know. Two of her
sisters and three of her brothers became quite well known in their own
right.
Polly Graf is remembered for her unusually searching judgment of
character, and Mona Graf for her ability to focus on a single
subject. Her brother were no less distinguished -- Otto Graf was
rather a self-centered writer, Litho an accomplished artist, and
Seismo, a somewhat unstable chap with a shaky grip on reality, went
into geology.
Pat
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a different nickname all together.
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Not to mention the famous composer Telly Graf-Mann.
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Uta Graf-Zeppelin?
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Pat
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> I have a feeling we have both just dated ourselves.....
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Huh. I've heard a lot of euphemisms, for, um, auto-eroticism, but
'dating yourself' is a new one for me.
Not that there's anything wrong with it.
All the same, and I don't consider myself a prude, but maybe you guys
could discuss the details concerning how you have both just 'dated
yourselves' via private e-mail??
Pat
Ancona21
I never date myself. I do, however, talk to myself. I do this for two
reasons. I like to speak to an intelligent man, and I like to hear a
brilliant man speak.
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rich...@gmail.com
Pat, isn't it time to take Sable for a very long walk?
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> I never date myself. I do, however, talk to myself. I do this for two
> reasons. I like to speak to an intelligent man, and I like to hear a
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Completely understandable. But why are you hanging around here?
Pat
Ancona21
I often ask myself that very question. And I must say that I'm still
waiting for a brilliant answer.
];>)
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Pat
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Well, you certainly don't have much chance of getting one from me. I
don't cotton to ingentious insights, clever repartee, and other types
of fancy thinking.
Look what it's done to Washington D.C., for God's sake...
Pat (Fanfare for the Common Man) Finley
Dorme Riposa
Sounds like you need to contact Uta's cousin Para.
dab
St.AndreJuifQuiRit
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RE: First post in this thread . . . . . . . Peabody Conservatory ,
Baltimore, ain't it?
SAJQR ( Geografer )
Ancona21
Yes it is -- *now*. But Uta was there before the Continental
Shift. ];>)
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alcindoro
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She had an uncle who was a Viennese Count, Graf Graf.
Pat
You don't Spee!
Pat
rich...@gmail.com
there are other Hagens, thank you)..
If Pat says even one word about Hagen Das, I think I will post my
reflections on Rahm Emanuel. Not that he has one.
Pat
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> Any other Utas in opera besides Vinzing, and in theatre Hagen? (I know
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I don't know from opera, but, as every cruciverbalist knows, 'uta' is
a type of desert lizard or salamander.
Newt Finley