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...slender, lustrous-eyed young woman, appearing on Manhattan's Town Hall stage one night last week, completely fascinated an audience which was unable to understand a single word she sang. She was Sarah Osnath-Halevy, a Yemenite from Palestine. By singers' standards her husky nasal voice was unimportant. But Sarah Osnath-Halevy does not pretend to formal singing any more than she does to conventional dancing. She is an interpreter of folk songs from her corner of the world. Those she presented last week were Persian, Arabian, Yemenite, Schabazy, Sephardic, Felahi. Whatever they were she made them invariably...
Like many a diseuse, Sarah Osnath-Halevy gained telling effects with a .shrug of a shoulder, a lift of an eye. More marvelous, though, was what she could suggest with her long, slim hands alone. Each finger seemed to have a definite part, each pose its own particular beauty. That such hands should have washed dishes and scrubbed floors seemed almost incredible. But it is a fact that Sarah Osnath-Halevy was a domestic servant before she made her mark as an interpreter of songs. Her family, driven out by Arabs, left Yemen when she was 4. On the long...
...Ballet, the Cathedral Choir and the Vienna Singing Boys, he will present a comic dancer named Trudi Schoop and her ballet from Switzerland. He is advertising first U. S. tours for Negro Contralto Marian Anderson, Russian Pianist Rudolf Serkin, the Kolisch String Quarte from Germany, and a Palestinian, Sarah Osnath-Halevy, who dances and chants in Arabian, Yemenite, Sephardic and Persian...
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