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opera-ghosts · 15 days ago

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American soprano Julia Heinrich: A Spring Morning (1916)

American soprano Julia Heinrich (1880-1919) A Spring Morning H. Lane Wilson (arranger) Henry Carey (composer) Recorded: March 20, 1916 in New York --

From Alabama, daughter of the well-known German baritone Max Heinrich (1851-1916), she studied first with her father, then worked as a music teacher in a college. She sang with her father in Montreal in 1899 and then went to Europe and sang in Eberfeld house as a guest in Amsterdam, as Sieglinde in Die Walkure (1913). She was a member of the Hamburg Opera (1913-1915) and then was called to the Metropolitan Opera, where she made her debut as Gutrune in Gotterdammerung; however, she was given no other important roles there. She undertook concert tours in 1916 and appeared as an oratorio singer. In 1919, in the small Louisiana town of Hammond, she made the so-called "direct comparison tests," better known as "Tone Tests", in which she sang and her Edison discs were played at the same time. It was in Hammond where she was killed instantly after being struck by a heavy baggage cart that had rolled off the railway station platform, colliding with an arriving engine. The pianist Lucille Colette, standing next to her, was uninjured. Julia Heinrich made only 10 recordings, all for Edison. Due to anti-German sentiment during WWI, Heinrich apparently altered her surname to Henry. Interestingly, her father was mentor to James Gibbons Huneker (1857-1921), the renowned American music critic and author who to this day is quoted by scholars and researchers. ( Sources: The Kutsch & Riemens Concise Biographical Dictionary of Singers - Chilton Book Company - 1969 / The Record of Singing by Michael Scott - Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc. - 1979 / James Gibbons Huneker: Critic of the Seven Arts by Arnold T. Schwab - 1963 / The New Orleans Times-Picayune / The New York Times / Vertical-Cut Cylinders and Discs by Victor Girard & Harold M. Barnes - British Institute of Recorded Sound - (1971) / Discography of American Historical Recordings (DAHR)

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richardanarchist · 1 month ago

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A Spring Morning

The Spring comes in with all her hues and smells, In freshness breathing over hills and dells; O’er woods where May her gorgeous drapery flings, And meads washed fragrant by their laughing springs. Fresh are new opened flowers, untouched and free From the bold rifling of the amorous bee. The happy time of singing birds is come, And Love’s lone pilgrimage now finds a home; Among the mossy oaks now coos the dove, And the hoarse crow finds softer notes for love. The foxes play around their dens, and bark In joy’s excess, 'mid woodland shadows dark. The flowers join lips below; the leaves above; And every sound that meets the ear is Love.

John Clare

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petitworld · 4 months ago

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