Foreward to More Than Singing

In the foreward to Lotte Lehmann's book More Than Singing, The Interpretation of Songs, published in 1945, she wrote:

“....I have tried through these years of German dissolution under the Nazi regime to hold fast and help to preserve that which once so beautified and ennobled the land of my birth... Music which speaks an international language which is understood by all---the language of the heart, the language of the soul, the language of eternal and indestructible beauty... American has, during this bitter time of war, never forgotten that this German art stands above the confusion of the present time... This is a sign of such great understanding, such great generosity of spirit, that I bow before it, filled with gratitude and humility....”