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Martin J. Walker wrote: > > Frederick, I'm still in the process of reading your long & engrossing poem, > an original verse narrative, (apocalyptic pastoral?), but a first looking > over has produced this: > <The Schwarzkopf/Böhm Lied von der Erde> > This is impossible: S. had a soprano, not an alto voice & could never have > negotiated the low tessitura. Böhm certainly never recorded _Das Lied_; > though I'm not prepared to swear he never conducted it I find it unlikely. > He avoided Mahler to my knowledge, perhaps to do with guilt over his Nazi > party membership, conscious or unconscious, if not with anti-Jewish feeling. > Is this a sign that the whole poem takes place in some alternative universe? > Best, Martin Truth to tell, I didn't know S couldn't sing that range. I was pretty sure she and Boehm had never recorded it; I love his Bruckner and thought, why not? Am inclined to keep him - poetic justice - but if you could suggest a likely famous alto - likely, that is, in an alternate world - I'd be grateful. Two syllables if possible. "Apocalyptic pastoral" is good. My basic genre. Thanks again.