Date:         Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:36:50 +0100
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Subject:      Re: Schoor? Schorr?
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From: Patent Tactics, George Brock-Nannestad

----- some people do not deserve the right to handle historical sound 
recordings! To offer something with such scanty documentation and to bolster 
the description with something found on the web - ridiculous. And who, except 
compulsory Schorr-collectors would be intereted in him as a pianist? Did he 
make recitals (like "When soft voices die"), in which he accompanied himself? 
Now, if Friedrich Schorr's "personal 78 record carring case" [sic] had been 
included it would obviously have changed things materially. Cases are very 
hard to come by these days.

Kind regards,


George


> You're right, the labels say Vienna..the seller said Germany. Still, Schorr
> sang at the Met from 1924 and wouldn't have wanted to spend too much time 
> anywhere near the Nazis.
> 
> The discs might be interesting on other levels, but not worth $999. I wonder
> if 
> they're gelatine-coated glass based? He says they aren't metal and also that
> one or two are stuck inside their sleeves. Too bad there's no close-up of a
> label identifying "Schoor" or "Schorr".
> 
> dl
> 
> Erik Dix wrote:
> > The label says they were recorded in Vienna which is in  Austria and 
> > wasn't part of Germany in 1937 yet. That was in 1938. But if he 
> > emigrated directly from Germany to the US than that would still not make
> > much sense.
> > 
> > 
> > Erik
> > 
> >  11:08 2/22/2008, you wrote:
> >> Somehow I doubt that these are piano recordings by the baritone 
> >> Friedrich Schorr, who wouldn't have been caught dead in Germany in 
> >> 1937 (unfortunately, that's exactly what would have happened to him).
> >>
> >>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/1937-Germany-STUDIO-RECORDING-PIANO-SOLO_W0QQitemZ140207
> 767639QQ 
> >>
> >>
> >> dl
> > 
> >