Recording is "C'est l'hymne nuptiale" from the opera.
Note:
Baritone solo in French.
Local Note:
Library's copy one form the William R. Moran collection; copy two from Edouard Pecourt collection.
Collection Information:
William R. Moran collection.
Collection Information:
Edouard Pecourt collection.
Personal Name:
Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893.
Personal Name:
Gilibert, Charles, 1866-1910.
Subject:
Operas--Excerpts.
Original Item Location:
Special Coll., Performing Arts - Cylinder 4521
Original Item Location:
Special Coll., Performing Arts - Cylinder 9882 (Copy 2)
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Heart bowed down - William Tuson. (Edison Gold Moulded Record: 8455), [1903].
Cylinders are acoustic recordings--performers sang or played into a recording horn, not a microphone. Microphones were not in widespread use until 1924 with the advent of electrical recording.