Word: braslau
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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...
...Sophie Braslau Giacomo Rimini...
Emilio de Gogorza and Sophie Braslau gave the second of the Steinert concerts last Sunday afternoon in Symphony Hall...
...Brahms, Schumann and Schubert, but it would seem that this is past. Probably it was this handicap of words ill-fitted to music which damaged Mme. Matzenauer's rendition of Schubert's "Erlkonig" when she sang it with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, four years since. At any rate, Miss Braslau far overleaped it last Sunday, singing the song, as she did, with a realism too intense to be excelled. In other numbers of Schubert she triumphed as well. Especially did she impart to "Gretchen am Spinnrade," the soft sheen, the delicate shadings, which the composer intended. She succeeded...