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American Baritone Reinald Werrenrath (1883-1953) / Personal Holiday Greetings / Recorded: November 13, 1923 (white label personal recording) / Christmas greetings to friends, excerpts from a number of his famous "hit" recordings. Born August 7, 1883 in Brooklyn, Reinald Werrenrath first studied with his father, George Werrenrath, a Danish tenor who taught singing in the United States. Reinald then studied with Percy Rector Stephens in New York City. In 1907 he made his concert debut at the ...

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Spanish soprano Lucrezia Bori (1887-1960) - Italian tenor Tito Schipa (1888-1965) / Boheme Death Scene - Parts 1 & 2 / La Boheme (Puccini) / Recorded: November 24, 1925 --

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Spanish soprano Lucrezia Bori (1887-1960) / Valse d'oiseau (Bird Waltz) / L'amour mouillé (Louis Varney) / Recorded: December 30, 1927 -- LUCREZIA BORI (via wikipedia) Lucrezia Bori (born Valencia, 24 December 1887 died New York, 14 May 1960) was a celebrated Spanish operatic singer, a lyric soprano. Her real name was Lucrecia Borja y González de Riancho, her family reputed to be descended from the Borgias. Her voice had a unique timbre and transparent quality unlike any present-day singer ...

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Contralto Sophie Braslau (1892-1935) / Die Junge Nunne (Schubert) / Recorded: c.1929 --

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For "aaronsande" / Italian tenor Giacomo Lauri-Volpi (18921979) / A te, o cara / I Puritani (Bellini) / Recorded: 1928 -- ******************************

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For "Kievest" / French baritone Maurice Renaud (1861-1933) / Vision Fugitive / Heriodiade (Massenet) / Recorded: 1906 -- ITEM: (PHOTOGRAPH) Renaud is pictured as Herod on the cover of the December 1909 edition of The Theater magazine, when he was appearing in Herodiade at the Manhattan Opera in New York. ITEM: (SOUND) From a late 1940s reissue on red vinyl, some collectors feel these pressings lack a certain bloom, not as forward as the originals. Renaud studied at the Paris Conservatory and ...

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Italian tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) / Siciliana / Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni) / Recorded: February 1, 1904 / although difficult to read, this is the recording featured on the page from an unidentified publication in this video. While undated, the advertisement is clearly from early 1904, shortly after Caruso's first recording sessions with Victor at Carnegie Hall in February of that year. ******************************

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American Tenor Billy Murray (1877-1954) / My Cousin Caruso (Edward Madden; Gus Edwards) / Recorded: May 13, 1909 -- As the sheet music states: "With Apologies to Leoncavallo & Verdi", American singing comedian and prolific recording artist Billy Murray performs this comic song about the great Italian tenor Enrico Caruso, with an added interesting contemporary reference to legendary theatre entrepreneur Oscar Hammerstein I (1847-1919) and his well-known "fun-a" (funny) derby hat. Hammerstein ...

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US actor Joseph Jefferson (1829-1905) / Rip Meets Minnie After Twenty Years' Absence / Rip Van Winkle (Washington Irving) / Recorded: 1903 -- Joseph Jefferson via wikipedia: Joseph Jefferson, commonly known as Joe Jefferson (February 20, 1829 - April 23, 1905), was an American actor. He was the third actor of this name in a family of actors and managers, and one of the most famous of all American comedians. In 1859, Jefferson made a dramatic version of Washington Irving's story of "Rip Van ...

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Soprano Alma Gluck (1884-1938) / Sylvelin / (Martens; Sinding, Op. 55, No. 1) / Recorded: March 6, 1914 --

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