Musicraft 1016 Carpenter Water-Colors, Berceuse de guerre, Mina Hager, Celius Dougherty - Audiolibro Gratis

John Alden Carpenter (1876-1951)

Water-Colors. Four Chinese Tone Poems

I. On a Screen

Text: Li Bai (701–762)

II. The Odalisque

Text: Liu Yuxi (772–842)

English translations: Herbert A. Giles (1845-1935)

(III & IV not recorded)

Berceuse de guerre

Text: Emile Cammaerts (1878-1953)

(Title billed on disc label, incorrectly, as Berceuse de la guerre)

Mina Hager (mezzo-soprano)

Celius Dougherty (piano)

Recorded: early 1937(?), New York

Format: coarse-groove, 78 rpm, 12” / 30 cm, electrical

Matrices: GM35A [label], GM35B [runout] / GM36A [label], GM36B [runout]

Catalogue number: 1016

Issued: July 1937

Transfer, restoration and photographs: Andrew Hallifax for DogintheManger, from original copy held by Sound Archive, King’s College, London

Contemporary sources

Review by A.P. De Weese, July 1937, The American Music Lover, Vol.3 No.3, pp.109-10

Unsigned review, The Minneapolis Star, Saturday 3 July 1937, Travel-Radio Music-Books Society section, p.9

Review by Robert A. Simon, The New Yorker, 10 July 1937, pp.50-53

Review by Compton Pakenham, New York Times, Sunday 25 July 1937, p.136

Review by Frederick Yeiser, The Cincinnati Enquirer, Sunday 22 August 1937, Section Four Cinema Stage Music, p.[1]

Unsigned review, H. Royer Smith Co., The New Records, Vol.5 No.7, September 1937, p.7

Review by Alec Robertson, The Gramophone, Vol.XV No.173, October 1937, pp.197-206 (on pp.203-04)