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Sitwell and Walton -- Facade with Edith Sitwell and Peter Pears
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Facade, An Entertainment-- poems by Edith Sitwell (first picture), music by William Walton (second picture); Edith Sitwell and Peter Pears, reciters; Anthony Collins conduc...
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Isa Kremer -- Three Songs Performed in Russian 1923-1926
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Isa Kremer, soprano, singing three Russian songs, from three Brunswick 78-RPM ten-inch discs.
The songs presented in this video are--
1) Leissa Leissa, recorded at Brunsw...
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Isa Kremer -- Three Yiddish Songs of Love 1927-1928
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Isa Kremer (also spelled Ise Kremer and Iza Kremer), soprano, singing three Yiddish folk songs; originally issued on Brunswick 78-RPM records during the late 1920s, they we...
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Jimmy Giuffre Three -- The Sound Of Jazz CBS-TV 1957 [Audio]
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An audio off-the-air recording, made while the program was being televised, this is the Jimmy Giuffre Three segment from 'The Sound Of Jazz', carried on CBS-TV, 8 December ...
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Kaye Ballard -- Lazy Afternoon (Golden Apple Original-Cast) 1954
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An excerpt from the original-cast album of 'The Golden Apple', issued in 1954 on an RCA-Victor long-play disc, number LOC1014-- Kaye Ballard singing 'Lazy Afternoon'.
'Laz...
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George Butterworth -- A Shropshire Lad (Song-Theme and Rhapsody)
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'Loveliest Of Trees' (excerpt), composed by George Butterworth (1885-1916, first photo) to a poem by A.E. Housman, sung by baritone John Shirley-Quirk, with Martin Isepp, p...
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Peter Warlock -- The Curlew (Music for William Butler Yeats Poems)
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'The Curlew'-- two excerpts from the song-cycle composed by Peter Warlock; performed by Alexander Young, tenor; Lionel Solomon, flute; Peter Graeme, English horn; and the S...
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Vogelweide -- Crusader Hymn and Its Carmina Burana Parody 1220
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'Palastinalied' or 'Palestinalied', the 'Palestine Song', performed by Hugues Cuenod, tenor, on a Westminster long-play disc, number XWN18848, issued in 1959; and a parody ...
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Duke Ellington -- At the Cotton Club in Harlem 1929-1930
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Three selections from 'Duke Ellington at the Cotton Club', issued in 1958 on an RCA-Camden long-play disc, number CAL459; the visual is part of the jacket cover.
The selec...
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Henry Morgan -- Kidding The Sponsor on His ABC Radio Show 1946
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Commercial announcements by Henry Morgan for Eversharp-Schick Razors & Blades, from 'The Henry Morgan Show', as heard on the American Broadcasting Company's radio network d...
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