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    Jan Peerce (born Yehoshua Pinkhes Perelmuth; June 3, 1904 – December 15, 1984) was an American operatic tenor. Peerce was an accomplished performer on...
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  • Two-Minute Warning (1976). The son of operatic tenor Jan Peerce and talent agent Alice (Kalmanowitz) Peerce,[citation needed] Larry was born in The Bronx, New...
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  • Peerce is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Jan Peerce (1904–1984), American opera singer Larry Peerce (born 1930), American film and...
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  • complete 1951 recording of the opera Carmen, featuring Risë Stevens and Jan Peerce, conducted by Fritz Reiner, which consisted of sixteen 45 rpm discs)....
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  • Harmati wrote the song for his friend, the tenor Jan Peerce, the leading singer at Radio City Music Hall. Peerce recorded it three times: in 1936, under the...
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    harpsichordist) (with Maureen Forrester & Wiener Akademie Kammerchor) 1964: Jan Peerce on 2nd Avenue (as conductor, arranger) 1965: Fleury — The Isles of Greece...
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  • Estonian footballer Jan Palach (1948–1969), Czech student self-immolated in 1969 protesting against the Soviet invasion Jan Peerce (1904-1984), American...
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  • Forrester Vladimir Golschmann Anton Heiller Antonio Janigro Charles Mackerras Jan Peerce Felix Prohaska Alexander Schneider Peter Serkin Leopold Stokowski Joseph...
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    Peterman, a shoe salesman. Her family was Jewish. Encouraged by tenor Jan Peerce, she started her music studies at age 13 with William Herman, a voice...
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  • Heifetz (violinist) Harry James (trumpeter) Vaughn Monroe (band leader) Jan Peerce (vocalist) Gregor Piatigorsky (cellist) Ezio Pinza (vocalist) Lily Pons...
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    Adler, subsequently his mentor. The following month, he replaced tenor Jan Peerce on the live CBS radio program Great Moments in Music on which he made...
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    Harmati and Edward Heyman, it was recorded several times by American tenor Jan Peerce, for RCA Victor and also by Art Mooney and His Orchestra. The bluebird...
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    Richard Tucker and Abraham Lopes Cardozo (1914–2006). Operatic tenor Jan Peerce, whose cantorial recordings were highly regarded, was never a cantor by...
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    Yossele Rosenblatt, Moshe Koussevitzky, Zavel Kwartin, Moishe Oysher, Jan Peerce and Richard Tucker were all cantors there. Red Buttons sang in the choir...
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  • Aleixandre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) December 15 – Jan Peerce, American tenor (b. 1904) December 20 Stanley Milgram, American psychologist...
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    in 1950 on an RCA Victor recording with soprano Erna Berger and tenor Jan Peerce, conducted by Renato Cellini. This was one of the earliest complete operatic...
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    world premiere of the opera, conducts the NBC Symphony Orchestra with Jan Peerce as Rodolfo and Licia Albanese as Mimì. It is the only recording of a Puccini...
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    Orchestra, Ray McKinley, Phil Regan, the Jones Brothers, Ella Logan, Jan Peerce, Jane Froman, Leon McAuliffe, Foy Willing and the Riders of the Purple...
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  • management of Sol Hurok, the eldest of the Perelmuth offspring, now renamed Jan Peerce, reached his goal when the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera Company...
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  • Susan Johnson). 1959 studio cast recording (starring Robert Merrill, Jan Peerce, and Jane Powell) 1966 Television cast recording (starring Sally Ann Howes...
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  • concert version of Verdi's Un ballo in maschera, co-starring Herva Nelli, Jan Peerce, and Robert Merrill, in the conductor's final complete operatic performance...
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    among English professionals of all-round abilities." The American tenor Jan Peerce, plagued with poor eyesight, credited comedian Steve Allen for normalizing...
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    Martinelli, Nino Martini, John McCormack, James Melton, Grace Moore, Jan Peerce, Lily Pons, Rosa Ponselle, Elisabeth Rethberg, Gladys Rice, Tito Schipa...
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    the complete opera Carmen, conducted by Fritz Reiner and co-starring Jan Peerce, Robert Merrill and Licia Albanese remains a best-seller and has been...
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  • Goodbye, Columbus (film) (category Films directed by Larry Peerce)
    comedy-drama film starring Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw, directed by Larry Peerce and based on the 1959 novella of the same name by Philip Roth. The screenplay...
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    29, 1933. She appeared as Maddalena in Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto with Jan Peerce, the marquise of Berkenfeld in Donizetti's The Daughter of the Regiment...
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  • recording of opera tenors including Tito Schipa (1926), Nino Martini (1941), Jan Peerce (1950), Alfredo Kraus (1959) and Luigi Alva (1963). Tatsuro Yamashita...
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  • the same time, Columbia made a new stereo recording with Giorgio Tozzi, Jan Peerce and Roberta Peters. This has not been issued on CD. The most complete...
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  • 29 – León Zuckert, conductor, composer and arranger (d. 1992) June 3 – Jan Peerce, American tenor (d. 1984) June 6 – Raymond Burke, clarinettist (d. 1986)...
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  • artistry of Jan Peerce and Robert Merrill. Throughout the 1960s he continued to collaborate with such operatic luminaries as Jan Peerce, Robert Merrill...
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