Friday, September 7, 1945
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Jews in Music
(Continued from Page 6)
he decided he didn't want to be a
business man and so he went to
study under the dean of Jewish
c omposers, Zavek Zilberts. After
becoming cantor for the Temple
Emanuel in Passaic, N.J., and
Temple Adath Israel in the
Bronx, he took a fling at opera
and sang five times in New York
and Bostoit. A private audition
with the Met's Wilfred Pelletier
followed and Tucker made a
glowing debut Jan. 25 in "La
Gioconda," at the age of 31. But
this month he will be back sing-
ing the Passover songs at the
Brooklyn Jewish Center, as ever.
And his friends are proudest
not of his operatice accomplish-
ments but of his refusal to sing
Friday nights and Saturday mat-
inees at the Met because of his
religious convictions.
In contrast, Lechner, who was
born in Stettin, Pomerania, came
to this country in 1936. He had
been starred, like List, in his na-
tive land for five years before
Hitler and almost form the start
he was engaged as cantor at tho
Central Synagogue. He made his
operatic debut two years ago at
the age of 38.
Tucker, Peerce, Resnik and
Benzell hail from Russian stock,
but most Russian of all is the
Basso Kipnis, who was born in
Jitomir in the Ukraine. He be-
came an American citizen in 1925
and treasures his naturalization
above all for it is with sadness
that he looks back on the years
that he wad the star of the Wag-
ner Festivals at Beyreuth and
the Mozart Festivals at Salzburg.
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Came to U.S. in 1920
the World War had disillusioned
him with Germany and he came
to America in 1920 to make his
home and sing here.
Altman first appeared at the
Metropolitan's opening night of
the 1943-44 season when "Boris
Godounoff" was presented as a
grateful gesture to Russia. It
was the first time in the history
of the Met that an American had
made a debut on an opening
night and she came through with
flying colors. Lipton one year
later was a belated counterpart
of Altman, for she, too, made
her Met debut at an opening
night in "Faust." Vivacious, dark-
eyed, she is one of a family of
artists and musicians long asso-
ciated with the theatre.
Directed by her mother, who
was a concert artist herself, Lip-
ton won a scholarship to Juilliard
Graduate School and it wasn't
long before she had reached the
exalted ranks of the Metropoli-
tan.
Judging by the number of Jew-
ish men and women who in the
past several years have embla-
zoned their names imperishably
on the pages of American mu-
sic, a glorious future faces others
like them.
Schmeling, Boss of
Murder Camp, Picked
To Reeducate Youth
It has been learned that Max
Schmelin g, former heavywleight
boxing champion, who had been
selected by American authorities
to reeducate German youth, was
in charge of the notorious Oswie-
icm murder camp for a year, dur-
ing which time he supervised the
Nazi extermination program and
was also personally responsible for
brutal treatent of the doomed in-
mates.
Music has been second nature
with him all of his life. He grad-
uated as a conductor from the
Conservatory in Warsaw and
when he began his professional
career he, like List and Lechner,
sang in most of the leading
He prayeth best who loveth
opera houses in the world. But best.—Coleridge.
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