Word: jagel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lawyer Key hated the War of 1812; shortly before he wrote his song was tempted to wish the eagle-screaming Baltimoreans would indeed be conquered. Descendant Key-Smith firmly believes that anyone can sing his ancestor's anthem. Last July, when Metropolitan Tenor Frederick Jagel said no singer could be at home on a range like that, Lieut. Colonel Key-Smith snorted: "Any real tenor who says he can't sing The Star-Spangled Banner is a fool...
Chicago Opera's Tenor Giovanni Mattinelli caught cold, told Impresario Paul Longone he would be unable to sing Pollione in Norma that night. To three other tenors went Mr. Longone. None of them knew the part. Frantically he telephoned to Manhattan's Metropolitan Tenor Frederick Jagel. Tubby Tenor Jagel caught a plane, flew 700-odd miles to Chicago's Municipal Airport, drove into the Loop behind police escort, trotted perspiring into the opera house, squirmed into a costume, bobbed on stage half-an-hour late, stumbled on a mossy step beside the Druids' oak, lost...
...citizen who used to conduct the Syracuse (N. Y.) Symphony. Even then he was full of plans for blending "canned" music with living singers. Benjamin Adler, a Manhattan cotton broker, backed him when in 1933 he put on Carmen in New York. In that production Metropolitan Tenor Frederick Jagel sang against an orchestra & chorus which were recorded on discs, not film. Last summer when he was touring Russia, Shavitch persuaded the Fine Arts Commissariat to give his device a further hearing...
...second-act climax played with sure-fire effect by the Detroit Symphony men. Conductor for the occasion was dynamic Franco Ghione, who had traveled from Italy especially for The Dybbuk, seemed to have the score completely at his finger tips. Conventional was the pale-faced Hanan, interpreted by Frederick Jagel, Brooklyn-born tenor from the Metropolitan Opera. Highest-priced singer was Rosa Raisa, whose Jewish blood helped her to look the part of Leah. Even so, her top notes were raspy, often insecure. The singer who did best by the English text was Contralto Pauline Pierce, a comparative unknown...
...Detroiters applauded indiscriminately for Raisa, Jagel, Ghione, raised the loudest tumult when Ghione made for the wings, led out Thaddeus Wronski, the stalky, middle-aged Polish basso who has long fathered the cause of opera in Detroit. Wronski made his first attempt as a producer in 1923 with an outdoor Aïda in the University Stadium. That night it was so hot that the grease paint streamed down the singers' faces. When the performance was about to begin a wind squall broke, blew down the Egyptian temple which was supposed to serve as the first-act scenery. Faithful...