Word: sembrich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lieder-singing takes a lot more doing than run-of-the-opera-house singing, and great Lieder singers are rare. Even world-famous opera stars come a cropper when they attempt Lieder; only a handful of them (Marcella Sembrich, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Lotte Lehmann) have ever satisfied the connoisseurs. Most great Lieder singers are specialists. Greatest of them in recent years have been: i) Dr. Ludwig Wüllner, who started life as a professor of philology in Münster, toured the U. S. in 1908-10; 2) Julia Gulp, a Dutch contralto (originally a violinist as well...
Henderson and Aldrich were the last survivors of a critical age rich and already remote. They moved freely and importantly in the world of Henry Edward Krehbiel. Philip Hale, James Gibbons Huneker, Henry Theophilus Finck. Patti was more than a name to them, and Sembrich a vivid, unforgettable presence. Each had worked tirelessly to establish Brahms in the U. S. Each had seen Debussy's worth when inferiors were yelping about his "decadence" and "lack of form." The great fight over Wagner was no legend to them: they had helped...
Columbia's Victor Shertzinger writes songs (his bestseller: Marcheta) and directs Grace Moore's pictures. He began his musical career as a boy violinist, toured with Nordica, Sembrich, Calve. As a director he made 21 of the old Charles Ray comedies. But composing was more to his liking. He does most of his work on his pipe organ at home, tries his tunes out on his daughter Paula...
After the performance last week there was a family reunion, quiet talk of the mother who died two years ago, of Marcella Sembrich who was Dusolina's teacher, of the late Daniel Mayer, the manager who started her on her career, made it his business to see that she read profitable books, helped her with her programs and her costumes, developed her taste. Absent also was Brother Vittorio, now a recognized composer studying in Italy on a Pix de Rome fellowship...
...prima donna roll-call were taken this week there would be no answers from the great singers of 50 years ago. The last to die, at a rich old age, was plump little Marcella Sembrich (TIME, Jan. 21). Of the living singers no longer singing there remains mountainous Luisa Tetrazzini who in Italy squabbles publicly over money with her 34-year-old husband. In France there is old Emma Calvé, proud with the assurance that her Carmen has never been surpassed. In a walk-up studio in Bronxville (N. Y.), great Olive Fremstad lives grimly surrounded by her operatic...