Minstrels - J'ai rêvé d'une fleur

Crystalate master CP 1198, rec. Paris, ca. 1935.
4 unknown singers with Rudolf Goehr (p & arr.).
After Rudolf Goehr had disassembled his "Melody Gents" and parted ways with the "Five Songs", he went to Paris, where he continued his work with a new group, the "Cinq de la Chanson". With them he recorded their big hit "J'aime une Tyrolienne" that today is better known in the Comedian Harmonists' German adaption "Mein kleiner grüner Kaktus". About a year later he recorded several sides for the Crystalate Company with this group. I am not sure whether "Les Minstrels" actually are a different group; at least to my ears the voices sound quite similar.
Apart from this activities, Goehr also reunited with his old teacher Arnold Schoenberg (already on his way to the USA), who asked Goehr to help Hermann Scherchen with the preparation of a "Pierrot Lunaire" performance. Later Goehr played the piano part in the premiere performance of Schoenberg's cello concerto with Emanuel Feuermann as the soloist.
When France was occupied by the German army it was also Schoenberg who provided Goehr with the papers that enabled the imprisoned Jewish musician to leave France and emigrate to the USA. Rudolf Goehr died in 1981 in Santa Barbara, California, shortly before his 75th birthday.

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• 30s
• close
• harmony
• vocal
• group
• quartet
• French
• Minstrels
• Cristal
• Crystalate
• Kristall
• novelty
• Rudolf
• Goehr