concentrated effort to master the bel canto singing style. Gorin became head cantor at the Leopoldstadt Synagogue in Vienna and his fame as a cantor became widespread. One of the rabbis who heard him arranged for Gorin to make his operatic debut as Ping in a Swiss performance of Turandot. He subsequently joined a Czech opera touring company and finally the Vienna Volksoper in 1930. His roles included Tonio, Germont, Figaro, Rigoletto, Renato, Wolfram, Escamillo and Valentin. Success in the United States It was not as an opera singer that Gorin made his first visit to the United States of America, but rather as a cantor in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1930 and 1931. Upon returning to Austria, he became greatly disturbed at the reports of Nazi purges of the German-Jewish population and the growing popularity of Adolf Hitler, and in 1933 he emigrated to the U.S. permanently. Gorin began his career in the U.S. at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City, where he was billed as a "Viennese baritone". After that he was engaged for a 10-week stint on NBC's The Standard Hour. It was during these programs that Gorin met the composer Albert Hay Malotte. As a result, Gorin was the first to perform Malotte's famous setting of "The Lord's Prayer". It was to become Gorin's most popular number on radio, on television and in concerts. His recording of it in 1940 became his most popular recorded selection. Gorin then joined the radio program Hollywood Hotel and his success there led to appearances on the Kraft Music Hall, Great Moments in Music, The Ford Sunday Evening Hour, International Harvester, and The RCA Victor Hour. In 1936, he signed his first recording contract with RCA Victor and made his first recordings in 1937. He also did a screen test for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and appeared in a secondary role in "Broadway Melody of 1938" singing "The Toreador Song" from Carmen and parts of "Largo al factotum" from The Barber of Seville. In 1939, Gorin married Mary Smith in May and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in July. From this point forward, Igor Gorin's career was pretty well determined. Although he did audition for the Metropolitan Opera, the Met did not engage him. Gorin went on to become primarily a concert singer who appeared on programs such as The Voice of Firestone and The Bell Telephone Hour regularly. He