Word: fleischer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...affair has normally enjoyed during its 72 years. One episode might have been anticipated, for when the name of Percy Aldridge ("Country Gardens") Grainger appears on a program it is more than likely to forecast a performance out of the commonplace. The second episode concerned German Soprano Editha Fleischer, especially imported to be leading soloist in the Festival's lastnight program...
...Soprano Fleischer had had a disagreement with Festival Conductor Albert Stoessel at a morning rehearsal. She had objected to the local accompanist provided for her, asked to have summoned from Manhattan little Kurt Ruhrseitz, her coach at the Metropolitan Opera House. Pianist Ruhrseitz arrived but by performance time Soprano Fleischer was missing. Festival directors searched widely for her, finally attributed her disappearance to temperament, proceeded with the concert without her. The directors should have known better. If Soprano Fleischer has flights of "temperament" she never shows them. After the concert she was discovered ia her hotel room (she had engaged...
...laws of physics are null. He can reach inside a bull's mouth, pull out his teeth and use them for castanets. He can lead a band or play violin solos; his ingenuity is limitless; he never fails. Best of Mickey Mouse competitors is Koko the Clown, of Fleischer Bros.' Out-of-the-Inkwell Series. Others: Paul Terry's Aesop's Fables, Charles Mintz's Krazy Kat, War ner Bros.' Looney Tunes...
March 21?Revival of Donizetti's L'Elisire d'Amore; at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. Cast: Gigli, Fleischer, De Luca, Pinza, Falco...
...beguilingly to the sea princess. Many in the audience reflected that he alone of all great male opera singers has the grace desirable for so fanciful a part. Others, however, wished that he could have achieved more of the heroic, legendary dimensions suggested by the role. Soprano Editha Fleischer sang sensuously. Conductor Tullio Serafin drew out of his orchestra all the scintillating tonality which the composer could have desired of the score...