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- Category: Recording
- Star rank: 2111
- Address:
1765 Vine St - Position: 3 tiles from the curb, facing south
- GPS location:
34.102974, -118.326839
Jan Peerce
Biography
Jan Peerce
Source: Freebase
Jan Peerce (June 3, 1904 – December 15, 1984) was an American operatic tenor. He is the father of film director Larry Peerce. The American tenor Jan Peerce (birth name Jacob Pincus Perelmuth) was born in a New York cold water flat in the Lower East Side, where he lived until marriage. He attended De Witt Clinton High School and Columbia University. He took violin lessons, and gave public performances; sometimes he also sang and it was soon discovered he was an exceptional lyric tenor. In 1932 he was hired as a tenor soloist with the Radio City Music Hall company. Thanks to its radio broadcasts and stage programs, Peerce soon had a nationwide following. The legendary maestro Arturo Toscanini heard him singing Wagner on the radio and was able to contact Peerce through a mutual friend to see if he would like an audition for him. Toscanini found him to be the tenor he had sought to sing operatic and choral works with the NBC Symphony Orchestra.
Fact file
- Born: June 3, 1904
- Died: December 15, 1984 (Aged 80)
Read more about Jan Peerce at Wikipedia or at the Internet Movie Database
Vine St, west side, between Yucca and Hollywood
Nearby you will also find Billy Wilder, Elliott Dexter, Virginia Mayo, Margaret Sullavan, and many others.