[78-L] the horn image

[simmonssomer]

While you're there (youtube) give Bjoerling a listen.

Al Simmons

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From: "James Tennyson" <jtennyson at sympatico.ca>
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Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] the horn image


> Did  you guys mention this movie? Two Sisters from Boston ( 1946) starring
> Laurtiz Melchior Kathryn Grayson and June Allyson. The  plot I think is a
> kind of mish mash based on  the Ponselle Sisters saga...the " from
> Vaudeville to the Opera"  thingy.  Be that as it may,  here's the 
> recording
> studio scene which is much more authentic than  the one in The Great 
> Caruso.
> It's  played for laughs  of course, but you will note that a couple of the
> string players have Stroh fiddles.  And the thing is, Melchior of course
> began his recording carreer in the acoustic era, so he would know whereof 
> he
> parodied in this segment.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6e9b8QHbzU
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:53:18 -0700
> From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] the horn image
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> From: "William A. Brent" <bbrent at pipeline.com>
>> here ya go
>> http://www.freeradical.co.nz/lanza/images/photos/Singing_Because_in_The_Great_Caruso.jpg
>
> Technically it is a very inaccurate scene.  Metal horns were ALWAYS
> wrapped with tape to reduce any ringing or resonances, and would not
> have been directly coupled to that hanging chain.  What is an unusual
> factor in Caruso specifically is the self-portrait he drew of himself
> singing into a RECTANGULAR horn much like is inside Victrolas.  What is
> even more surprising about that drawing is that it was done before the
> introduction of internal horn Victrolas!
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
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