Title:
About a hundred years.
Publication Information:
East Barnet, Hertfordshire : Symposium, ℗1997.
Call Number:
A HIST AHY V22
Physical Description:
1 audio disc (79 min., 40 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
A history of sound recording, illustrated by vocal, instrumental, and spoken word recordings and examples of various recording devices.
Compact disc.
Program notes ([18] p. ; 12 cm.) on container insert.
Contents:
Thomas Alva Edison -- I am Dr. Brahms, Johannes Brahms -- Emile Berliner recites -- George Graham on drinking -- "They are merry" (Hotel Royale, Budapest, 1899) -- "The little widow" composed & conducted, Carl Ziehrer -- Enrico Caruso -- Sousa's Band -- Francesco Tamagno -- Sarah Bernhardt -- Prof. Dr. Josef Joachim plays Bach -- Stollwerck Chocolade Musikplatte -- Dame Nellie Melba -- Adelina Patti -- Johnny Wakefield -- Edouard Colonne -- Count Leo Tolstoy -- Sir Charles Santley -- Scott Joplin -- The Royal Garrison Artillery bombards Lille -- Lenin -- The funeral of the unknown warrior (Westminster Abbey, Nov. 11, 1920) -- The Original Dixieland Jazz Band -- National anthem -- Paul Robeson -- Feodor Chaliapin -- Ernest Lough -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on Sherlock Holmes -- Phonovision -- Paderewski -- The spiritual message of Mahatma Gandhi -- Jascha Heifetz -- Field-Marshal von Hindenburg -- Josef Hofmann -- Neville Chamberlain -- Sir Henry Wood -- Winston Churchill -- Arturo Toscanini.
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