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Article: GERMAN ART SONGS REVIVED IN HOLZMAIR.(Entertainment)(Review)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- February 6, 1996
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It was not so long ago that connoisseurs were mourning the lost art of the revered German song. What they could not know was that a young Austrian baritone was just beginning his studies in this most rarified and sublime art form.
Sunday night at the Vancouver Playhouse, Wolfgang Holzmair made his Northwest, as well as Canadian debut to a capacity and attentive audience.
The singer, who has been making a substantive name for himself in European capitals, made his New World debut in New York only two years ago.
He is now regarded as one of the great interpreters of the German art song, a successor to Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who is able to ...