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Star. Rose Olitzkaya. made his
debut in the State Opera of Koe-
nigsburg. where he played for ten
years. He is now one of the most
important co-workers of the Met
ropolitan Opera Company.
A very important place in the
Metropolitan Opera Company is
FREDERICK LECHNER
. . Alberich in "Siegfried"
—P.L.G.B.
occupied by the young artist Alex
ander Sved, a son of religious
Jew ish parents of Hungary. Before
coming to the Metropolitan, he ap
peared successfully in the largest,
best known European Operas,
where he participated in the Salz
burg festivals. Later he appeared
in Buenos Aires and Rio De Janeiro,
South America. Sved is often cast
with Jemue Tourel, a French Jew
ish girl, who plays "Carmen." Miss
Tourel is now recognized as one of
the best "Carmens.” Unfortunately,
we know very little of her Jewish
background.
Among the new faces in Ameri
can Opera is the recently arrived
Hungarian, Alvera Lorenzo, who
comes from an old. established
Jewish family in Europe. Lorenzo,
is a ni phew of the late celebrated
German Jewish writer. Jacob Was-
serman.
Jewish music conductors are also
occupying important positions in
American Opera and in the musical
field in general. Among them, in
our estimation. Ennl Cooper of the
Metropolitan Opera Company is the
most important. He was born in
Odessa. Russia. His brilliant musi
cal career began in his childhood,
when he made a marked impres
sion on his audience at a perform
ance in Petersburg. The Turkish
Ambassador to the Czarist court of
that time was so enthusiastic about
his playing that he presented little
Cooper to the Sultan Abdul Hamid
II. The Sultan called the child
wonder to the Palace in Constanti
nople and there he completed his
higher musical training. In the
years that followed he conducted
orchestras in London, Paris and
other European cities. He also
conducted the Royal Opera in Mos
cow. where the famed Chaliapin
played under his direction. During
the first World War he conducted a
series of lectures in the University
of Petersburg, where the degree of
Professor of Music was conferred
upon him.
Erich Leinsdorf, one of the
younger, but certainly most tal-
t nted of conductors in the musical
world, is once more, temporarily
with the Metropolitan Opera Com
pany. Up to Hitler’s occupation of
Austria, Leinsdorf was conductor
of the State Opera there. He dis
tinguished himself especially in
conducting Wagnerian Operas. He
came to America in 1938 and soon
thereafter conducted Wagner's "Die
Walkure" at the Metropolitan. The
Norwegian singer Miss Flagstadt.
and the singer, Melchior (inci
dentally. the latter comes from a
well-known Danish Jewish family)
took a stand against him. It was
beneath their dignity to sing under
the direction of a 26-year old con
ductor. Liberal Director Johnson
of the Metropolitan, however, ap
proved of Leinsdorf as a conduc
tor. "The time will come, when
this young man will be in the lime
light. while others w’ill be but a
memory of the past," said Director
Johnson. And sure enough, Leins
dorf achieved great success in the
Metropolitan, while Miss Flagstadt
returned to Norway and has not
been heard of since.
And we must not forget Bruno
Walter, who appears from time to
time with the Metropolitan Opera
Company. He is one of the most
important and well known music
conductors in the world. He con
ducted operas in all the large
cities of the world and excelled
especially in the Beyrouth Festi
vals in Salsburg. The Nazis treated
him brutally and he and his family
just about managed to escape with
their lives. Walter comes from a
noted Jewish family in Hungary
and Austria. With his coming to
this country, the American musical
scene has been enriched beyond
estimation.
(Copyright Seven Arts Feature
Syndicate)
ADVERTISEMENT
A Tel-Aviv cinema hit upon a novel way of advertising a coming
film, called DO \ OU LOVE ME? It sent out thousands of neat little
envelopes to the women of Tel-Aviv and on the envelopes were written
the words: DO YOU LOVE ME?—Telephone . . . (here was given the
cinema’s telephone number).
Curiosity got the better of common sense and the cinema’s tele
phone was ringing all day.
Palestinians are fond of the cinema. There are 12 in Tel-Aviv, 6
in Jerusalem, 4 in Haifa, where the latest was opened only a fortnight
ago. There must be another 20 scattered up and down the country.
—P.L.G.B
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The Southern Israelite