Word: erna
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...September, 1939. Six girls of varying nationalities: French, German, Polish, English, and American, are fast friends before the holocaust. But stranded in Lucerne, without proper guidance, they let national ties separate them into dissident cliques until, with the unknowing cruelty and stupidity of the young, they bring tragedy to Erna Schmidt, the young German girl...
...letters and stuffy parental epistles to one another before going to sleep. But by the last act, these letters have brought death and tragedy to them; the very rollicking idea of reading the letters aloud has caused strife and bitterness among them. The last letter to Lucerne, read by Erna, is one of the most touching scenes in recent years...
Mozart: Die Zauberflote (Berlin Philharmonic, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting, with Tiana Lemnitz. Erna Berger, Helge Roswaenge, Gerhard Hüsch and other artists; Victor: 2 volumes, 3-7 sides). The 18th-Century Masonic symbolism ol Mozart's great, quaint, rollicking fantasy-opera The Magic Flute is pretty vague to present-day audiences. But the music is some of the most beautiful Mozart wrote. Its first complete recording, less perfectly tooled but more spectacular than the Glyndebourne Don Giovanni (TIME, Oct. 3), is the record of the month...
...dozen years ago, however, in the small provincial opera at Bielefeld, Germany, a newly-hired soprano sat practicing cadenzas at a piano, inadvertently sang up to a high G. Surprised, she tried some more, later that day discovered she could sing C in altissimo. Last week that soprano, Erna Sack, made her U. S. debut by radio...
...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...