{"id":4228,"date":"2012-03-02T00:15:16","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T08:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ehpes.com\/blog1\/?p=4228"},"modified":"2012-03-02T00:15:16","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T08:15:16","slug":"part-3-joseph-schmidt-a-star-fell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ehpes.com\/blog1\/?p=4228","title":{"rendered":"Part 3: Joseph Schmidt, a Star Fell!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/radionational\/\" target=\"_blank\">ABC Radio National<\/a><\/strong> producer Natalie Kestecher visited the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschenberg.ch\/test\/?page_id=54\" target=\"_blank\">Eschenberg Observatory<\/a><\/strong> in Switzerland in September 2009 and coducted an interview with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Markus_Griesser\" target=\"_blank\">Markus Giesser<\/a><\/strong>, the Director of the Observatory, who &#8211; together with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freimut_B%C3%B6rngen\" target=\"_blank\">Freimut B\u00f6rngen<\/a><\/strong>, the first discoverer\u00a0 &#8211; named the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ehpes.com\/blog1\/2012\/02\/22\/joseph-schmidt-a-star-in-the-universe\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Schmidt Asteroid<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ehpes.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/natalie_markus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4229\" title=\"natalie_markus\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ehpes.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/natalie_markus.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4234\" title=\"bp_rn\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ehpes.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bp_rn-200x51.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"51\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ABC Radio National from Australia broadcasted on Saturday, 15 January 2011, the program <strong>&#8220;A Star Fell &#8211; Remembering Joseph Schmidt&#8221;<\/strong>, which won a silver medal in the Best Music Special category of the New York Radio Awards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mpegmedia.abc.net.au\/rn\/podcast\/2011\/01\/itm_20110115.mp3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4240 aligncenter\" title=\"audio_icon-300x300\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ehpes.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/audio_icon-300x300-200x200.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>ABC Radio National:<\/strong> &#8220;In this moving account of his life, we hear the songs immortalised by Joseph Schmidt&#8217;s voice, as producer Natalie Kestecher searches the archives and the recollections of those old enough to remember. Natalie takes us to a Sydney hospital ward where a former Vienna Mozart choir boy (Erich Troyna) recalls a live radio performance in 1935, and to Switzerland where an astronomer (Markus Griesser) has kept Schmidt&#8217;s memory alive by naming an asteroid after him. There too, she visits the Joseph Schmidt archive, lovingly curated by his biographer Alfred Fassbind, a former tenor himself.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC Radio National producer Natalie Kestecher visited the Eschenberg Observatory in Switzerland in September 2009 and coducted an interview with Markus Giesser, the Director of the Observatory, who &#8211; together with Freimut B\u00f6rngen, the first discoverer\u00a0 &#8211; named the Joseph Schmidt Asteroid. ABC Radio National from Australia broadcasted on Saturday, 15 January 2011, the program [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[48,55,63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ehpes.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ehpes.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ehpes.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ehpes.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ehpes.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ehpes.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ehpes.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ehpes.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ehpes.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}