Word: schorr
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...outright a great troupe if it were not for the matter of acoustics. The Germans are playing at the Manhattan Opera House. Vocalists may have beautiful, ringing tone in that auditorium, which in another theatre they lack. But the singers of the Wagnerian Festival seem excellent, notably the baritone Schorr. By comparison they have made the orchestra all the more an abomination. The company picked up a group of musicians hurriedly, and put them through the ticklish walks, paces, and gallops of pieces like Die Meistersinger and Tristan. Conductor Blech is an excellent director, but the Archangel Gabriel, himself, would...