Word: heink
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...square, squat lady with snow white hair stepped on to the platform of the High School auditorium in Stevens Point, Wis., one evening last week and grinned a great wide grin to show that she was at home. She was Ernestine Schumann Heink, 65 years old, in Stevens Point for the first concert of her Golden Jubilee Tour...
...restaurant keeper's daughter lessons, she put toward a piano for herself, nol much of a piano with its hammers patched with string and sealing wax, but still a piano. . . . Sh might have gone back to Dresden where she first sang in opera, to Hamburg, where Herr Heink had died and left her alone with five small children, to scrub and cook, to sing for five dollars a performance. Yes, Hamburg had its memories, but then so had Vienna and Berlin and Bayreuth. So had cities all over...
...when she came to the Metropolitan Opera to sing for $75 a week. More children, Herr Schumann's, were added to Herr Heink's* string. At the Metropolitan she was at home, but there were the children. . . . She went into musical comedy. They lifted their hands in horror at the Metropolitan but they took her back when she was ready to come because no one else could sing Wagner as she could. She left the Metropolitan again, went touring the country in concert, into towns much smaller than Stevens Point, into army camps, schools, hospitals, East, North, South...
...played: De Falla's marionette opera, El Retablo de Maese Pedro, Sibelius' Tapiola, Casella's Scarlatina, Honegger's Phaedre, Ernst Hallfter's Spanish Suite, a symphony by Austin George Antheil, Milhaud's Ballad for Piano and Orchestra. Soloists will be Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Efrem Zimbalist, Alfred Cortot, Albert Spalding, Paul Kochanski, Rudolf Laubenthal, Dusolina Giannini, Elsa Alsen, Walter Gieseking, John Charles Thomas, Pablo Casals, Josef Szigeti, Alfredo Casella, Darius Milhaud, Lewis Richards, Georges Barrere, Mischa Mischakov...
Last week the Disabled American Veterans of the World War announced through National Commander John W. Mahan the creation of a $750,000 fund-to be called the Schumann-Heink Foundation-named for the chunky, grey-haired woman who has mothered them, who will also mother the fund, gather in the first dollars by a benefit concert tour, which will open in Los Angeles May 29, take her to 15 cities, ending June 30 in Boston...