By Andrew Farkas, Anna-Lisa Bjorling
This is often the 1st English-language biography of the loved Swedish tenor, incorporating reminiscences via his widow, info from the relations data, and fabric from operatic records across the world. A chronology of his performances is additionally incorporated.
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Gustafsson owned the restaurant. On the evening of 11 August 1926, the little band of four (Kalle didn't join them on this trip) checked into the hotel. A few hours later, David was doubled over with severe stomach pains. Gustafsson gave him opium drops, but it didn't help. Judging from the location and intensity of his pain, David feared it was appendicitis and had Olle call a doctor to get him to a hospital. But the doctor wasn't alarmed at all. "It will pass by morning," he reassured Olle over the telephone.
Zander and his wife, Emma, had nine children; Jussi was especially fond of their daughter Eva, and for many years he returned to Asarum for visits. Earnings before the American trip were very modest, but now, boosted by their American credentials, the Quartet attracted a much larger paying audience wherever they went, and the take more than paid the bills. But it was difficult for David to be both mother and father to his sonsespecially in later years, when little Kalle would often join them. Märta maintains that when they traveled and performed, David wouldn't drink excessively, that he was not an alcoholic.
Yes, Salomon Smith did know David. He then asked Jussi to sing. Jussi chose Peterson-Berger's "Som Stjärnorna på himmelen" ("Like the Stars in the Heavens"). When he finished, Smith remained quiet a few moments. "Well, you certainly have a beautiful voice, and you look just like David. " But the quartet wasn't meeting regularly, and many days passed while Jussi waited to hear from Smith. Finally, he received an invitation to sing with a visiting quartet from Stockholm. "I had just turned 17, and I was cocky and impertinent.