European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 11, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine  Tio Tokov gnat mkt Enuch it guitar Vert Auto Andre Segovia Tad opera Ginger Elisabeth Schwarzkopf take an to eclat Luster As they grow older. Maestros in the classroom by Donal Henahan new York times Reat musicians who Are not also Greal teachers and that you know Means most of them Are like Gold mines whose entrances have been covered Over. The precious Ore that lies inside each at Ham remains hidden an Al Dorado of learning and experience that is last forever at death. That is Why the comparatively a musical celebrities who also become great teachers such As Andres Segovia and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf take on a special Luster As they grow older. They come to be revered As much Tor their dedication to passing on a tradition of serious artistry As Tor any virtuosic Feals they performed on the stage. As it happened both Segovia and Schwarzkopf were in new York recently giving master classes almost simultaneously. The 94-Yaar-Oid grandee of the Spanish guitar presided with his usual mixture of fastidiousness severity and Grace Over to classes at the mantel Tan school of music and one at Weill recital Hall. Meanwhile. The 71-year-old German Soprano re capitulating her Awn earning years As Maria Svogun s most famous Pupil was Back at the Mannas College of music. She spent Lour evenings pulling students through what one Young musician exposed to her stringent methods for the first time wryly called the Schwarzkopf  a gov la now walks lowly and unsteadily loaning As much on aides As on his Stiver handled Cane but he tuns his own kind of wringer. At the Wall Hall session his wife sat beside him handing him scores and passing notes about the student s lingering problems. She also had to rebuke him now and then when he lapsed irom English into a mostly inaudible castillian Spanish. Nevertheless one could never misunderstand his intention to hold to his own Standard each of the four guitarists who sat on the stage with him looking like people on death Row waiting for the final Call. He Sang along with each player naming the pitches in classic so Leggio style and giving cues in a startlingly resonant and accurate baritone. A Man who intimately knew All the composers represented on the program and inspired scores from them Segovia did not hesitate to comment acidly on the sins of their publishers. This is not at All like the original he drily advised a student who had chosen Ponce s sonata no. 1. I will make a photocopy and Send,1 to you Segovia olten had to Call for a More deliberate Pace and a less glib interpretation but one student who adopted a plodding approach to a Vitta Lobos prelude earned this dubious distinction for the first time i must Tell someone that it is a Little too slow " throughout an intense session that occasionally put As much Strain on the audience As those on the stage hardly a Page of score was allowed to go by intact. Soil came As an unexpected Blessing when Segovia evidently pleased let the last of the four students play straight through Moreno to Roba s Madrono. That kind of gesture could inspire a student to go Home and practice. Schwarzkopf first appeared in new York in the role of teacher 11 years ago at the Juilliard school As one half of a master class duo with her husband Walter Legge. Al that time she seemed alternately tentative and imperious in dealing with the Young singers possibly because of the dominating presence of Legge the autocratic recording executive who controlled every aspect of her career until his death in 1979. One suspected she might be another of those Masler class divas who become virtuosos at entertaining eavesdropping audiences but never pick up the Knack of passing on their knowledge to students. Now however to so a to o flexible and More Edo five Schwarzkopf one who still possesses enough saturday april 11, 1987 voice to demonstrate what she wants but whose teaching style deftly mixes a veneered frankness with admiring comment and encouragement. Typically at one session she and a Soprano spent 20 minutes on two lines of Schubert s do bist Diersh while Schwarzkopf acted As vocal surgeon mouthing the words and dissecting every Lino of text every phrase Al times every note and syllable. You have a marvelous head voice she told the drained but still eager Singer but you re not using it to  another Soprano who held the final note of Pace Pace two Dio for a phenomenally Long time received an understanding smile from the retired opera Star fantastic. They won l allow Haf of course Toul it s marvelous Carrol and Slick Honey and vinegar. During an exhausting five hour session. Schwarzkopf stressed Only a few Basic technical ideas a whinging the jaw kalhor than widely opening the Mouth keeping the tone in the mask thai is Forward in the face learning to cover a raw tone shaping and placing the Tongue differently for different tones avoiding at All costs Tho Vowel � on certain lop notes projecting a full pianissimo tone rather than merely singing it Sailer imagining the sound before beginning to sing it and the like. The common Coin of most voice teachers in other words. When real masters Leach however students Are Likely to come away with More than vocal tips. Exposure to a Schwarzkopf or a Segovia oilers them perhaps More forcefully than Ever before in choir musical experience a foretaste of what it Means be be an Arlist and a hint of what Price must be paid in the hard Coin of discipline. Performing Lor people who have spent their lives pursuing the chimera of perfection Tho Best students decide they can and must Chase Tho same monster. Others perhaps startled by a glimpse of the Road ahead  decide on other career routes. Master classes at this serious level can be exercises in sell Awakening in any even few students will Ever forget Tho experience of being spoken to. A Heihs brusquely or in admiration by  s voice. The stars and stripes a i Page 13