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When Erna Sack, a comely blonde stenographer in Berlin, saved her pfennigs to study voice, she thought she was a mezzo-soprano. So did her first teacher, although a subsequent teacher lightened her voice so that, when Conductor Bruno Walter heard it, he gave her small lyric soprano parts at the Charlottenburg Opera. After her accidental discovery of C in altissimo, Soprano Sack perfected her coloratura. When, as a member of the able Dresden Opera, she sang in the world première of Richard Strauss's Schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman), and later in a revival...
...give him his cues that he beat time with clenched fists. When his cues came, he played with such sympathy and taste that the audience stormed applause, the gentle critics went home to praise unreservedly an outstanding young wonder, Julius ("Buddy") Katchen, II. Prodigy Katchen had been "discovered" by Conductor Eugene Ormandy (who himself made his debut at 7), had been given a preliminary hearing before the Philadelphia Orchestra Club, recently organized to stimulate youthful interest in the city's music...
Talented son of a Manhattan clothing worker, black-eyed Giuseppi Cusimano, 11, violinist, has not played in as many concerts as he might have, because he was last year injured by falling plate glass. After a concert in Oakland, Calif., Conductor Ernest Schelling ventured: ''Young Giuseppi should go very...
Died. Dr. Frank Heino Damrosch, 78, musician, brother of famed U. S. Composer-Conductor Walter Damrosch; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Dr. Damrosch, not so famed as his brother, was nonetheless an eminent musician. A pianist, and onetime (1885-91) chorus master of the Metropolitan Opera House, he was founder, in 1905, of the Institute of Musical...
Last month "America's handsomest symphony conductor," Macklin Marrow, was hired by The Bronx Theatre League-a 100% cultural group headed by the president of The Bronx Women's Club, the president of The Bronx Soroptimists and Borough President James J. Lyons-to give "the very first series of Standard Symphonic Concerts ever staged in The Borough of The Bronx." Handsomest Conductor Marrow is a Virginia-born batonist who was once musical director of the Provincetown Players and who, last spring, put on some chamber concerts at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel at which audiences put themselves...