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Died, Sophie Braslau, 43, onetime Metropolitan Opera Company contralto whose voice had a three-octave range; after long illness; in Manhattan...
...Mary Garden who left this year is 54) she may look forward to years more of good & bad times. Tall, swart, she has neither the chic of Lucrezia Bori nor the Viennese brilliance of Maria Jeritza: she looks Jewish, and like Soprano Alma Gluck and Contralto Sophie Braslau, is proud of it. Annually (except this year) she gives a concert of which the proceeds go to the Raisa Scholarship Foundation, for the musical education of one Jewish boy singer a year. Like many a great singer, she likes to live quietly, hates large parties, guards carefully her health and voice...
...Curci, though still big drawing cards, have lost considerable ground. Basso Feodor Chaliapin no longer "sells." His last minimum fee of $3,500 was too high to permit managers making money. Other names which count for less in dollars and cents are the Singers Frieda Hempel, Anna Case, Sophie Braslau, Louise Homer, Dusolina Giannini, Mabel Garrison, Reinald Werrenrath, Louis Graveure, Pianist Josef Lhevinne, Violinist Mischa Elman. Violinist Jascha Heifetz had also started to slip. The public found him cold, expressionless. But since his marriage to Cinemactress Florence Vidor his concert manner has warmed, his box-office value increased. Conversely, names...
Manhattan and Chicago each have one permanent opera company (see pp. 52 & 54). Philadelphia has three. Last week all three began the season. The Philadelphia Grand Opera Company, under new Conductor Emil Mynarski, presented Carmen in French with Sophie Braslau. The Philadelphia Civic Opera, under Conductor Alexander Smallens, gave Prince Igor in Russian with a Russian cast and ballet. The Pennsylvania Grand Opera gave Boito's Mefistofele in Italian. Most interesting to watch this year will be the Philadelphia Grand Opera, which begins its first season in cooperation with Mrs. Edward Bok's Curtis Institute of Music...
...Arbor, Mich., May 22-25, 36th annual event under the auspices of the University of Michigan; programs furnished by the Chicago Symphony under Frederick Stock. Soloists include Sophie Braslau, Richard Crooks, Richard Bonelli, Edith Mason, Lawrence Tibbett, Efrem Zimbalist, Josef Hofmann. Evanston, III., May 27-June 1, 21st annual Chicago North Shore Festival. Orchestral favorites, a few novelties, the Bach B minor Mass comprise the programs, interpreted by artists including Cyrena van Gordon, Efrem Zimbalist. Josef Hofmann, Edith Mason, Alice Mock. Other May festivals are at Emporia, Kan., Bangor, Me., Springfield and Lynn, Mass., Keene, N. H., Newark...