Word: nyborg
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...simple, polka-dotted tunes, showed off some notable young talent: Basso Luke Matz (music supervisor in the Unionville, Pa. public school), as a jovial village marriage broker; Soprano Frances Greer (Philadelphia church singer), as the unwilling betrothed of the village simpleton (Tenor John Toms, voice teacher); Tenor Edward Nyborg (Philadelphia tailor's helper), as the boy who finally gets the girl...
...best fun. Its singers, chosen from 450 Philadelphians who showed up for auditions, averaged 27 years in age, were well above average in looks. Retranslated, by Chorus Master Vernon Hammond, was the gay, sometimes bawdy Viennese libretto (1874), which details the ballroom deceptions practiced upon a banker (Tenor Edward Nyborg, tailor's son) by his wife (Selma Amansky, wife of the Philadelphia Orchestra's trumpeter and associate conductor, Saul Caston) and his maidservant (Frances Greer, church singer). Typical couplet, sung by the banker...