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...little Symphony in A Major, which Mozart wrote at the age of 18, and which was introduced by the Boston Symphony last year, will be repeated. The program will conclude with Strauss's tone poem, "Ein Heldenleben...
...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 of his Ariadne Auf Naxos, Composer Strauss wrote in extra fioriture for her nimble vocal chords...
Last Sunday, as a member of General Motors' radio singing troupe, Soprano Sack aimed at her super-high C in a quick staccato passage in Strauss's Voices of Spring, succeeded in singing a brief B, amazed her listeners with two long, rarefied high G's toward the end of this difficult work. This week she makes her U. S. operatic debut, disdaining a wig, as a 100% blonde Rosina in The Barber of Seville, in the Chicago City Opera. Accompanied by her husky, jovial husband, a onetime Berlin taxicab driver who is now her manager...
...Instead of giving her a ticket, Patrolman Ormond exacted from Soprano Mario a promise. Three days later Patrolman Ormond called for Soprano Mario & accompanist in a limousine borrowed from an undertaker, drove her to Armonk under strong police escort, rapturously listened to Soprano Mario work off her fine in Strauss songs at a Policemen's Benefit...
...unusual group of artists have recently formed an organization called the Wagnerian Singers and are at present engaged in touring the country. They will come to Symphony Hall on Sunday afternoon with a program containing six Wagner selections and numbers by Mozart, Strauss, Weber, Gounod, and Offenbach. Richard Hageman is the conductor of the group which includes the wellknown basso, Alexander Kipnis...