Victor records (May 1912)

VICTOR RECORDS | Number | 5 | Price ALDA, FRANCES, Soprano Frances Alda was born in Christ Church, New Zealand, twenty-eight years ago, but has spent much of her life in Paris. She is the daughter of Albert Davis, an Englishman, and her mother was Leonora Simonson, who was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. She studied singing with Mme. Marchesi in Paris for ten months, and then made a début at the Opéra Comique in Paris in 1904. Four years later she came to New York, making her first appearance here as Gilda in Rigoletto, and during her two years at the Metropolitan has sung a number of réles with marked success, including Desdemona in the great revival of Otello with Leo Slezak, in which her protrayal of the devoted and injured wife attracted much favorable mention. REUTLINGER ALDA This soprano exhibits a rich and cultivated voice in the records she has made for the Victor. A charming Massenet ballad in French; the favorite Tosti Serenade in Italian; and airs from Otello, Manon and Falstaff, which are especially interesting because of the great success this artist has made in these operas, make up the solo list, while in the Alda-Caruso Miserere record, one of the most successful in the entire Red Seal List, her dramatic singing of Leonora’s music is highly effective. Mme. Alda now makes Victor records exclusively. ALDA RECORDS (Sung in Italian unless noted) Cradle Song (Wiegenlied) Jn English Humperdinck Cuckoo, The (From the Song Cycle “More Daisies’) In English ands and Lehmann Falstaff—Sul fill d’un sofie (Borne on the Breeze) Giuseppe Verdi anon Lescaut—Minuetto, “‘L’ora o Tirsi’’ (Joyful Hours) Puccini Lombardi— Qual volutta (With Sacred Joy) (Trio with Caruso and Journet) Verdi O siles fleurs avaient des yeux (If Flowers Had Eyes) French Massenet Otello—Ave Maria (Hail, Mary!) Giuseppe Verdi Otello—Salce, salce (The Willow Song) Giuseppe Verdi Serenata (Serenade) F. Paolo Tosti Trovatore—Miserere with Caruso and Metropolitan Opera Chorus Alexander’s Bagpipe Band (From Weber-Fields Jubilee) (Goetz-Berlin-Sloane) Billy Murray If It Wasn’t For the Irish and the Jews Billy Murray eer Ragtime Band _ (Berlin) Victor Military Band Slippery Place Rag (Hacker) Victor Military Band Alexander’s Ragtime Band (Berlin) Collins and Harlan Oceana Roll (Lewis-Dennis) . Eddie Morton Algeria—Gems from (Herbert) Victor Light Opera Co “ Twilight in Barakeesh ’’—** Rose of the World’’—“* Little Bird of Para dise —" Ask Her While the Band is Playing ’’—‘‘ The Same Old Two” — Love is Like a Cigarette ’’—‘* The Old Boule Miche ’’—Grand Finale Algonquin March (Seltzer) Pryor’s ne A Cyclone in Darktown (Just Rags!) (Barnard) Pryor’s Band (ae Where Art Thou? Cello and Flute Duet Trein and Lyons Silver Threads Among the Gold (Danks) Will ae fier Aboard for Blanket Bay (Sterling-Von Tilzer) Van Brunt My Trundle Bed (Baker) Helen cue All Alone (Dillon-H. Von Tilzer) Jones and Murray 1 Alone (Dillon-H. Von Tilzer) Jones and Murray When I’m Alone, I’m Lonesome _ (Berlin) American aur Alleluia d’Amour (Faure) In French Emilio de Gogorza All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name (Coronation) (2) Doxology—“ Praise God from Whom” Trinity Che Sanctus from ‘‘Messe Solennelle’’ (Gounod) Trinity Choir All Hail Thou Dwelling—See “ Faust—Salve dimora” JAll Hands ’Round—Barn Dance (Friedman) Victor Dance Orch | Way Down East Barn Dance (Wheeler) Victor Dance Orchestra JAll In, Down and Out—“ Coon Song” (Johnson) Arthur cola | Medley Dance (Kamman) Bells Chris Chapman 87090 87086 88247 87079 95211 87066 88213 88214 88248 89030 17054 17006 16908 31766 17040 16786 16868 5846 16884 74234 35110 16282 16211 — NWNNHNHKONM ONO OC 2.00 2.00 2.00 5.00 3.00 3.00 4.00 oO 73 10} .75 12|1.00