tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post115209996079949831..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson - one of the rare electUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1152112753648448032006-07-05T16:19:00.000+01:002006-07-05T16:19:00.000+01:00gt - as you rightly say Lorraine Hunt Lieberson wa...gt - as you rightly say Lorraine Hunt Lieberson was a talented viola player who switched to singing in 1988 when her uninsured viola was stolen.<BR/><BR/>More on this wonderful artist, who will be so badly missed, in <A HREF="http://arts.guardian.co.uk/proms2004/story/0,,1262404,00.html" REL="nofollow">this 2004 Guardian profile</A> by Andrew Clements.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1152110233389085692006-07-05T15:37:00.000+01:002006-07-05T15:37:00.000+01:00Pliable, your site is the bearer of simply devasta...Pliable, your site is the bearer of simply devastating music world news this morning. Thank you for your posting of this extensive tribute to Lorraine Hunt Lieberson.<BR/><BR/>In May, I heard Lorraine sing her husband Peter Lieberson's beautiful 'Neruda Love Songs', with the Boston Symphony, under David Robertson; and then, last month, I listened to Lorraine sing Peter's equally beautiful 'Rilke Songs', on Bridge, with Peter Serkin at the piano. Her recordings of Monteverdi, Bach, Handel, and many others are some of the finest and most heartfelt that are available today. (I first heard music of Peter Lieberson, John Adams's peer and equal, when his Chamber Cello Concerto was performed by Fred Sherry and members of the New York Philharmonic, at Lincoln Center, in March 1976 -- thirty years ago. I believe that the conductor was James Levine, but I would need to check.)<BR/><BR/>Lorraine and I attended high school together, for two years, thirty five years ago, and, as you note, she excelled on the viola and piano, as well as then aspiring carefully to become a classical singer. (I recall touring together, with our high school and youth orchestras, to Los Angeles, San Diego, and the American Southwest including the Grand Canyon; and to Mainz and West Berlin).<BR/><BR/>I also recall her singing the famous aria from Saint-Saƫns 'Samson and Deliah' at one of our youth orchestra concerts, and everyone in the orchestra quietly commenting that she was to be a classical singer, and that her training would be slower, and more careful to the physical body, than that of the other most promising musicians in the ensemble. She was always -- even in the 'de rigeur' faded blue jeans of her Berkeley and Boston long training and apprentice days -- one of the handful of most beautiful people on the face of this earth.<BR/><BR/>Classical music did matter to Lorraine and Peter, and to their families and close friends.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com