Kenneth Lane auditioned for Friedrich Schorr when he was 23 years old. He so flabbergasted Schorr when he started his full voice singing, that Schorr literally fell off his chair, amazed at the size of his voice.

Friedrich Schorr is considered, to this day, the greatest of all Wagnerian baritones, known particularly for his Hans Sachs, shown here in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.