Fritz Kreisler

But while the four men will observe their centennials from the heavens, Marta -- a living link to Franz Lehár, Fritz Kreisler, Robert Stolz, Oscar Straus and other leading operetta composers, many of whom composed works especially for her -- will mark her hundredth birthday April 17 drinking in accolades and making music with family at her home in Rye, New York.

Michael Sigman: Marta Eggerth, Operetta Superstar, Turning 100 Michael Sigman 2012

But while the four men will observe their centennials from the heavens, Marta -- a living link to Franz Lehár, Fritz Kreisler, Robert Stolz, Oscar Straus and other leading operetta composers, many of whom composed works especially for her -- will mark her hundredth birthday April 17 drinking in accolades and making music with family at her home in Rye, New York.

Michael Sigman: Marta Eggerth, Operetta Superstar, Turning 100 Michael Sigman 2012

But while the four men will observe their centennials from the heavens, Marta -- a living link to Franz Lehár, Fritz Kreisler, Robert Stolz, Oscar Straus and other leading operetta composers, many of whom composed works especially for her -- will mark her hundredth birthday April 17 drinking in accolades and making music with family at her home in Rye, New York.

Michael Sigman: Marta Eggerth, Operetta Superstar, Turning 100 Michael Sigman 2012

Meant to augment a repertory that hasn't had a real champion since Fritz Kreisler, the pieces ultimately will be performed individually or in small groups following a larger work.

The Commissioner of Short Works David Mermelstein 2011

Blaming a strained tendon, he chose at the last minute to substitute two shorter pieces by Beethoven and three Viennese cream puffs by Fritz Kreisler.

When an Artist Retires 2008

Risky things, these pieces by Beethoven, Dvorak, Elgar, Fritz Kreisler: in lesser hands they can be reduced to palm-lounge mush.

Tweety And Sylvester, Meet Mozart And Eigar 2008

Autumn DeWilde Inara George There is a touch of Leonard Bernstein, and Fritz Kreisler, but Mr. Parks has been doing this kind of thing so well for so long that it's more him than anyone else.

He Responds to Inara George's 'Invitation' 2008

The Strad Ex Liebig takes its name from a Viennese collector of long ago, the Guarneri from the violinist Fritz Kreisler, 1875-1962.

Though He'd Played a Strad, 2008

Fritz Kreisler, born on this date in Vienna in 1875, and Jascha Heifetz, born a quarter century later in what is now Lithuania.

Heifetz and Kreisler: Setting Standards for the Violin 2007

And this distinguished gentleman was Fritz Kreisler.

Heifetz and Kreisler: Setting Standards for the Violin 2007