Word: sembrich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...battered, straight-backed office chair, squeezed into space twice too small for his massive frame, but there he had sat and seen great Enrico Caruso enact the bearded Jew in Halevy's La Juive, the last performance Caruso ever gave. There he sat the night plump little Marcella Sembrich sang her farewell; the night Geraldine Farrar first appeared as the ragged goosegirl in Die Königskinder, surrounded by a flock of live geese which she insisted on having against all other judgment; the night golden-haired Maria Jeritza gave her first breath-taking performance of Tosca and astounded...
...started its career in 1875. Beer flavored the performances there but, alternating light opera and grand, the house managed to keep open all year round-an achievement never equaled in the U. S. The Metropolitan Opera visited San Francisco three times-with Calve, Melba, Eames, Schumann-Heink, Fremstad, Gadski, Sembrich. Caruso, the de Reszkes. Early one morning during the third visit the earth started rumbling and quaking, knocked the entire company out of bed, frightened Enrico Caruso so badly that even though he was offered $25,000 he would not go back to 'Frisco...
...monthly Overtones. Like his predecessor, Dean Grace H. Spofford who resigned to do radio-educational work, he is subordinate to Director Josef Hofmann who also heads the piano department. The Institute was founded in 1924 by Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok. Other department heads at Curtis: oldtime Soprano Marcella Sembrich (ill last year, she was replaced by Soprano Queena Mario) and Baritone Emilio de Gogorza; Violinist Efrem Zimbalist; Cellist Felix Salmond; Viola Player Louis Bailly, onetime member of the Flonzaley Quartet (chamber music department...