Victor records (1922)

VICTOR RED SEAL RECORDS on the advice of Mme. Wagner, to study German opera, and in 1902 appeared in the Wh “*Ring”” at Liibeck, and as Wolfram at Bayreuth in 1904. The baritone has chosen a wide variety of selections for his Victor records, including several old-time ballads, which he sings with unusual sympathy and understanding. Mr. Whitehill makes records for the Victor, and furnishes added proof that American voices, properly trained, are fully equal to those of any other nation. In point of fact, he is a living example of the principle that an American artist, with his flexible and unprejudiced mind, his high idealism, and his faithfu.ness to the necessary long labor of preparation for the life of the singer, may take and may hold the highest artistic rank. Sympathetic insight and a fine sense for dramatic values are characteristics which will be found in the records by Mr. Whitehill which are listed below. THE WHITEHILL RECORDS Nc eee America (My Country, ’Tis of Thee) Smith-Carey 64677 10 $1.25 Bedouin Love Song Pinsuti 64279 10 1.25 Bohemian Girl—Heart Bow'’d Down Balfe 74407 12: 1.75 Dream Faces (Sweet Dreamland Faces) Hutchinson 74451 12 1.75 Elijah—Lord God of Abraham Mendelssohn 74320 12 1.75 I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen Thomas P. Westendorf 74425 12 1.75 In the Gloaming Orred-Harrison 64360 10 1.25 I Want to See the Old Home _ (with Male Chorus) Dumont-Stewart 74433 12 1.75 Love’s Old Sweet Song Bingham-Molloy 74321 12 1.75 Marching Through Georgia Henry C. Work 64602 10 1.25 Mate o’ Mine Cooke-Elliot 64789 10 1.25 My Homeland Burnet-Speaks 64719 10 1.25 Nancy Lee Weatherly-Adams 64613 10 1.25 Old Black Joe Foster 64359 10 1.25 Panurge—Chanson de la Touraine In French Massenet 64735 10 1.25 Parsifal—Amfortas’ Gebet (Amfortas’ Prayer) Jn German Wagner 74406 12 1.75 Some Day Hugh Conway-Milton Wellings 74452 12 1.75 Some Day I'll Wander Back Again (with MaleQt.) French-Huntley 64609 10 1.25 Take Me Back to Home and Mother French-Huntley 64610 10 1.25 *Tis but a Little Faded Flower Mrs. Howarth-Thomas 64707 10 1.25 Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (with Orpheus Quartet) Root 64608 10 1.25 Two Grenadiers, The Schumann 74556 12 1.75 Walktire—Wotans Abschied, | Teil (Wotan’s Farewell) Jn German Wagner 64278 10 1.25 WILLIAMS, EVAN, Tenor The fact that Evan Williams is no longer in the land of the living makes his unforgettable records all the more valuable. Evan Williams was essentially an American product. Theson of a family in poor circumstances, he was born in Ohio, and enjoyed little preliminary education. He was gifted, however, with a voice of singular sweetness, and indomitable will power. Coming to New York, he soon established himself as one of the foremost concert and oratorio singers of the day. A tour through England, the home of oratorio, added greatly to his reputation, which was still increased upon his return to America. An artist of the very highest attainments, he never lost sight of the human side of his art. The list of records below is fairly representative of the man. Great masterpieces of oratorio and opera are found side by side with the tender folk songs of the land of his Welsh ancestors, and with these are found the popular |" WILLIAMS better-class ballads of our own day. Williams played upon his audiences with the touch of a master, stirring them with bis fire, lulling them with his exquisite tenderness, and this mystical magnetic “power is‘ translated“ through his records — so that it is preserved forever.