Kurt Adler
Kurt Adler · Arts & Literature
Orchestra conductor
1907, Neuhaus (Bohemia), Austria-Hungary — 1977, Butler, New Jersey, USA
Austria · United States
Kurt Adler is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Orchestra conductor
Kurt Adler was an Austrian-American conductor and chorus master best known for his roughly three-decade tenure at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where he served as chorus master and conductor from the 1940s to 1973. A Jew who fled Nazi persecution in 1938, he trained as a conductor in 1920s Vienna and became an authority on the art of accompanying. He is distinct from the San Francisco Opera's Kurt Herbert Adler.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Music
Orchestra conductor
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Music
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