Columbia Record Catalog (1940)

COLUMBIA DON COSSACK CHORUS Serge Jaroff, Cond. EDDY, NELSON (Baritone) Fifteen years ago the Don Cossack Chorus was formed in a prison camp near Constantinople by its dynamic, diminutive leader, Serge Jaroff. In the years of its existence, the Chorus has accumulated warm friends in all lands where it has appeared—in Europe, in Australia and in America—for its superb interpretations of Russian sacred music and Russian folk songs. Men in exile, singing the songs of their mother country, comprise this fine ensemble. Stirring, rousing, fervent or expressive is their performance of each selecton, depending upon the character of the individual song. On Columbia Records, the Don Cossack Chorus conducted by the energetic Serge Jaroff, present a great number of their countless unforgettable renditions with the verve and sweep that have endeared their singing to millions, In every sense of the word Nelson Eddy is America’s baritone. On the concert stage, on the air, on the screen and on records he is the symbol of musical America. Eddy was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1901, with a New England strain from his father’s side and a combination of Southern Colonial and Knickerbocker Dutch from his mother’s. As 4 boy, Eddy was boy-soprano soloist in Providence church choirs, and at fourteen he moved with his family to Philadelphia where, in time, his musical career became diverted through economic necessity into the channels of newspaper reporting and advertising. Throughout his short business life, however, he cherished hopes to lng and clung firmly to his ambition until his aspirations were realized. Eddy’s meteoric career indicates the tremendous advances made in the field of film, radio and recording. Through them, his singing has reached into every city, town and village. i sssessressensnmnseosness Vill eee