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much as ten thousand dollars for a single operatic performance.
In bringing these artists together for you, to play, sing, or otherwise entertain you, we always have done so with the unbroken determination to give you the very best the world can produce, in every class of music. And we shall never do otherwise.
When you come to look over what Victor artists have done for your pleasure in music, you will notice some things about the way we bring it to your attention in this Catalog.
How to Use This Catalog
You will see, in the first place, that it is all an alphabetical index, from A to Z.
Every piece of music, artist and composer is listed in proper alphabetical place. Every record bears its number, size and Catalog price. Moreover, both the compositions on a record are listed together; if you look for a given title, you can see exactly what is on the other side of the record.
Take, for instance, record No. 6648:
Largo (Handel)
Stock and Chicago Sy. Orch and Grand Organ Pomp and Circumstance March, No. 1 (Elgar)
Chicago Orch and Organ
Now look under “P,”’ and you will find it thus:
Pomp and Circumstance—March (Elgar) Chicago Orch-Organ? 6648 12 2.00 Largo (Handel) Chicago Symphony Orch and Grand Organ
To make the Catalog complete as possible, we frequently list the same piece under different headings. An operatic record may be listed under the opera from which it is taken; under the artist recording it, or under its composer, at the end of the Catalog.
Each record is listed in its proper alphabetical place, as well as under the name of the artist who made it. A
6648 12 2.00