Identifier: victrolabookofop00vict (find matches)
Title: The Victrola book of the opera : stories of one hundred and twenty operas with seven-hundred illustrations and descriptions of twelve-hundred Victor opera records
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Victor Talking Machine Company Rous, Samuel Holland
Subjects: Operas
Publisher: Camden, N.J. : Victor Talking Machine Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ness let me bid attend!Is there one here who knows Im right,Let him appear before our sight.(Walter advances amid a general stir.)Ah, Sachs! Youre very sly indeed!—But you may for this once proceed.It shows our rules are of excellence rareIf now and then ex-ceptions theyll bear.People: A noble wit-ness proud and bold!Methinks he shouldsome good unfold. Sachs: Masters and people all agreeTo give my witness liberty.Sir Walter von Stolzing, sing the song!You, Masters, see if he goes wrong.The Mastersingers agree that Walter may attempt the air.and he mounts the platform and sings the noble Prize Song. Preislied (Prize Song) By John McCormack, Tenor (In English) 74479 By Evan Williams (In English) 74115 By Mischa Elman, 74186 By Lambert Murphy, Tenor (In German) 70080 By Sousas Band *35044 By Beatrice Harrison, Cellist *55067 By Victor Sorlin/Cello *35111 12-inch, $1.50 *Double-Faced Record—See page 322. 12-inch,12-inch, 12-inch,12-inch, 12-inch,12-inch, 1.501.50 1.251.25 1.501.25 320
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Walter:The maid ElysianI saw in vision,She whom my heart doth choose! (Meistersinger, Act III.) VICTROLA BOOK OF THE OPERA —THE MASTERSINGERS Walter (who has ascended to the platform withfirm and proud steps):Morning was gleaming with roseate light,The air was filledWith scent distilledWhere, beauty-beaming,Past all dreaming,A garden did invite. (The Masters here, absorbed, let fall thescroll they are watching to see if Walterknows the song; lie notices it without seem-ing to do so, and proceeds.) Wherein, beneath a wondrous tree With fruit superbly laden, In blissful love-dream I could see The rare and tender maiden, Whose charms beyond all price, Entranced my heart— Eva, in Paradise! The People (softly to one another) : That is quite different! Who would surmiseThat so much in performance lies? Walter: Evening fell and night closedBy rugged wayMy feet did strayTowards a mountain,Where a fountain mnd; Enslaved me with its sound;And there beneath a laurel tree,With starlight glint

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