There are these artists
who just aren’t that “nice”. An acquaintance of mine wanted to have Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
autograph on an authentic 1940’s picture of her. She took the photo and said
she looked awful on it. He later found the picture back under the table, torn…
She was a terrific singer. Elly Ney adored Adolf Hitler and was appointed to be
his official “Kammermusikerin”. In letters to friends she complained that Jews were treated too polite in Nazi Germany… She was a terrific pianist. In
the light of these two examples Dutch soprano Jo Vincent doesn’t come off that
bad… She had a mouth and was not
afraid to use it. She was nosy, interfered with just about everything in the
life of her pupils and when in 1960 she was asked her opinion on Dutch TV about
then popular singer Mieke Telkamp she replied that “she didn’t sing, she just
shouted in a microphone”… Beside the fact that I am not a big of a Mieke
Telkamp fan, it’s quite tactless to say that before an audience of about a
million people. Straightforward, honest maybe, but also a bit rude… Yet, Jo Vincent
was an awesome singer. Here is a 1927 recording of her, made when she was 29
years old. A very atmospheric performance of Franz Schubert’s “Du bist die Ruh”,
with Maurice van Ijzer on the tingly (hey, authentic 1927!) piano.
Follow this link! ->
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdqLXbplC7I
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