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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.

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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."

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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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