[78-L] Telefunken studios and cutting lathes

[David Lennick]

Her postwar records were sold in the US on London..turn up very frequently. And 
she did perform in New York in 1950 (see Billboard article, you may have to 
scroll down).
http://books.google.ca/books?id=OQ4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT40&lpg=PT40&dq=%22rosita+serrano%22+%22london%22&source=bl&ots=-jOcpBMVia&sig=RTgfrNDrjGw7anfmZIcaUCy3oqs&hl=en&ei=5sfZTJS_JZSingeVtamOCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CCcQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%22rosita%20serrano%22%20%22london%22&f=false

I thought she was another Nazi Nightingale. I stand corrected.

dl

On 11/9/2010 5:11 PM, Kristjan Saag wrote:
> Joe Salerno wrote:
>   >  The young lady is a cutie. I have never heard of her before seeing
> this video.
> --
> Rosita Serrano was Chilean and called "The Chilean Nightingale", because
> of her operatic coloraturas. Immensely popular in Germany, where she was
> discovered by composer/ pianist/ producer Peter Kreuder, but also in
> Scandinavia (she even recorded a few titles in Swedish) and in her home
> country (she recorded in Spanish as well).
> War time hysteria resulted in her being banned in Germany (for giving a
> charity concert for Jewish refugees); others accused her for having
> performed in Nazi Germany.
> She never made it in the US.
> Kristjan
>