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3 unusual facts about Josiah Zuro


Josiah Zuro

In the summer of 1925 he managed a free municipal opera project, producing three open-air operas in Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, before large crowds.

In 1924 John Haynes Holmes characterized the Sunday performances as a "ministry of music," adding that "this service, religious in character, rises to a plane of dignity and beauty which makes musicians priests of the loveliest of arts."

Zuro and Potoker had both lived in the same building, 8439 Sunset Blvd, Hacienda Arms Apartments, according to the 1930 US census.



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