From what city was high-lying bass singer and conductor Gotthold Schwarz from?
Leipzig
Title: Alexandra Röseler
Passage: Alexandra Röseler is a German mezzo-soprano and pianist.  She won the 1988 Schiller Prize of the Nationale Forschungs- und Gedenkstätten der klassischen Deutschen Literatur Weimar.  After a period studying at the University of Magdeburg from 1992, she began a career as a concert pianist, performing for example Schumann's Piano Concerto.  By the late 1990s, she had furthered her studies, studying vocal performance under Regina Werner at the University of Music and Theatre in Leipzig.  Röseler has since appeared in numerous recordings and recitals of baroque music as a mezzo-soprano and alto and has performed regularly with the Thomanerchor.  In 2003 she recorded Bach's cantata, "O heilges Geist- und Wasserbad", BWV 165, with Gotthold Schwarz, Thomanerchor, Gewandhausorchester, Heike Kumlin  and Martin Krumbiegel, singing the alto part.
Title: Bass-baritone
Passage: A bass-baritone is a high-lying bass or low-lying "classical" baritone voice type which shares certain qualities with the true baritone voice.  The term arose in the late 19th century to describe the particular type of voice required to sing three Wagnerian roles: the Dutchman in "Der fliegende Holländer", Wotan/Der Wanderer in the "Ring Cycle" and Hans Sachs in "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg".  Wagner labelled these roles as "Hoher Bass" ("high bass")—see fach for more details.
Title: Adolf Čech
Passage: Adolf Čech (11 December 184127 December 1903) was a Czech conductor, who premiered a number of significant works by Antonín Dvořák (the 2nd, 5th and 6th symphonies, more than any other conductor; other important orchestral works, four operas, the "Stabat Mater"), Bedřich Smetana ("Má vlast", five operas), Zdeněk Fibich (two operas) and other Czech composers.  He also led the first performances outside Russia of two operas by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and the Czech premieres of seven operettas by Jacques Offenbach.  He was also a bass singer and a translator of opera librettos.
Title: Joe Herndon
Passage: Walter Gregory "Joe" Herndon (born January 5, 1949) is an American R&B and soul singer, former bass singer of a version of doo-wop group The Spaniels and former bass singer for The Temptations (2003–2015).
Title: Billy Todd
Passage: Billy Todd (September 26, 1929 – November 30, 2008) was the bass singer for the Florida Boys Quartet in the Southern Gospel music industry from the 1950s to 1972.  By the end of his tenure with the Florida Boys, he was one of the most popular performers in Southern Gospel music, winning the Singing News Fan Awards for Favorite Bass Singer the first two years it was awarded (1971-72).
Title: Metal-clad airship
Passage: Metal-clad airships are airships which have a very thin airtight metal envelope, rather than the usual fabric envelope.  This shell may be either internally braced as with the designs of David Schwarz, or monocoque as in the ZMC-2.  Only four ships of this type are known to have been built, and only two actually flew: Schwarz's aluminum ship of 1893 collapsed on inflation; Schwarz's second airship flew at Tempelhof, Berlin in 1897, landed but then collapsed; the ZMC-2 flew 752 flights between 1929 and scrapping in 1941; while the Slate "City of Glendale", was built in 1929 but never flew.
Title: Montague Birch
Passage: Charles Montague Birch (1884–1947) was a British musical conductor.  He was born in Leamington Spa, the eldest child of Charles Septimus Birch and Clara Birch.  'Monty' had joined the 2nd violins of the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra (today the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra) in 1912 becoming assistant conductor to Dan Godfrey.  In 1934 Birch auditioned unsuccessfully for the post of Musical Director.  When in 1940 Bournemouth Corporation reduced the size of the orchestra to 24 players, the conductor Richard Austin resigned and Birch took over, steering the orchestra through the war years.  He was chief conductor of the orchestra from 1940 until 1946, putting himself forward to be principal conductor, but died on 20 February 1947 before the auditions were held; he was succeeded by Rudolf Schwarz.  Birch's funeral took place in St Ambrose's Church, Bournemouth, on 24 February.
Title: Heike Kumlin
Passage: Heike Maria Kumlin is a German soprano.  After studying opera in Aachen, she attended the master classes of Edith Mathis, Judith Beckmann, Peter Schreier and Christoph Prégardien.  Kumlin has since performed with the Thomanerchor and the Gewandhausorchester, and is renowned for singing works by composers such as Bach, Handel and Mozart.  In 2003 she recorded Bach's cantata "O heilges Geist- und Wasserbad", BWV 165 conducted by Gotthold Schwarz, with Alexandra Röseler and Martin Krumbiegel.
Title: All-Star Orchestra
Passage: All-Star Orchestra is an orchestral music project created by Gerard Schwarz, former music director and conductor laureate of Seattle Symphony.  It is a television and DVD project, filmed by 18 high definition video cameras without an audience for PBS, the Khan Academy, educators, students, "and enthusiasts."  Mr Schwarz assembled 95 leading orchestral musicians, of major symphony orchestras, from across the United States.  The assembled players performed over a four-day period.  In 2014, the program consisted of eight episodes.  The second season began broadcast in the fall of 2015.  The organization's web site provides detail of the second season's programs.
Title: Gotthold Schwarz
Passage: Gotthold Schwarz (born 2 May 1952 in Zwickau) is a German bass-baritone singer and conductor.  Based in Leipzig, he started as a member of the Thomanerchor and has conducted the Gewandhausorchester.  He is the 17th Thomaskantor after Johann Sebastian Bach.
Bass-baritone Gotthold Schwarz