[78-L] Hart House String Quartet

[James Tennyson]

Harry Adaskin played second violin in the Hart House String Quartet and his 
memoir A Fiddler's World includes a photo of the group outside the  Montreal 
Studios of  The Victor Talking Machine Co of Canada.
I'm madly scanning the book  in order to recall what ,,,if  anything,,,he 
says about the recording sessions. A book with no index is a trial.

Jim

"Canadian Musical Masterpiece Series No. 1" is on the front of the album. In
all likelihood the pieces were all recorded in Montreal since there was no 
such
facility in Toronto before c. 1940.

David Lennick wrote:
>
> I'm pretty sure the number CMM-1 appears on the album, but not on the 
> record
> labels.
>
> dl
>
> DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
>> I'm curious about the Victor recordings of the Hart House String Quartet. 
>> Although the record numbers of the first four discs are consecutive, 
>> 24001 - 24004, the first two were apparently made in 1926 and the second 
>> two in 1927, (far superior recording quality and about 5 dB higher 
>> level).  There's nothing about the numbers in the dating guide but I'm 
>> wondering if the first two were kept on the shelf until the other two 
>> were recorded and then were they all released together, or were no other 
>> Canadian Victor Red Seals recorded between the two sessions?  The 
>> remainder of the Hart House Quartet recordings, (Haydn's Quartet in F 
>> minor, Op. 20 No. 5), were recorded in 1930, with a further improvement 
>> in quality, and are numbered 24009 - 24011, (according to Moogk, they 
>> were released as set CMM 1, but there is no such number on the records 
>> and I've never seen any set with this prefix).  This is apparently the 
>> only complete work which this quartet recorded
>>  although they appear to be very competent players.  Does anyone know if 
>> records 24005 - 24008 were ever issued and whether the Quartet recordings 
>> were done in a studio or in a location such as Hart House?
>>
>> Thanks
>> db