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This page presents a discography of the '''Chicago Gramophone Society'''.

It is part of the wiki [[Classical 'Society' Records by Nick Morgan]].

For an account of the Society itself, please see [[Chicago Gramophone Society]].

Dates of '''page creation''' and '''latest update''': see 'Page information' in sidebar.

==Catalogue numbers==
Chicago Gramophone Society issues were recorded and pressed by Columbia's 'Personal Record' department, launched in 1915.<ref>Brooks, Tim <span class="plainlinks">[https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/resources/detail/111 'Columbia Corporate History: Personal Recording']</span>, from Rust, Brian and Brooks, Tim ''The Columbia Master Book Discography, Volume I, U.S. matrix series 1 through 4999, 1901-1910 with a history of the Columbia Phonograph Company to 1934'', Westport, Connecticut Greenwood Press, 1999</ref> The catalogue numbers were not peculiar to the Society but were taken from Columbia's 'Personal' recording series, starting at 50001-P.

All issues were recorded using the Western Electric system, under licence to Columbia, as denoted by the logo Ⓦ preceding matrix numbers. This symbol cannot be searched for in MediaWiki, and so is not used in the tables below.

For more details about each work, artist and issue (price, distribution, reception, transfers etc.), please follow the links in each table.

==[[Chicago_Gramophone_Society_50016-P,_50017-P|First Issue]]==
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%"
! style="width: 14%;" | Selection
! style="width: 12%;" | Artists
! style="width: 6%;" | Format
! style="width: 6%;" | Matrix
! style="width: 8%;" | Recorded
! style="width: 8%;" | Location
! style="width: 6%;" | Issued
! style="width: 13%;" | Label cat. no.
! style="width: 3%;" | Country
|-
|'''Franck''' ''Prelude, Chorale and Fugue''<br/>''Prelude''. Moderato [part 1]||[[Roberts, Marion Mahan (piano)|Marion Roberts]] (piano)||12" / 30 cm<br/>lateral disc|| <div style="text-align: center;">W91729-2</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">11 April 1927</div>||Columbia studio,<br/>New York City(?)||<div style="text-align: center;">c. May / June 1927</div>||[[Chicago_Gramophone_Society_50016-P,_50017-P|Chicago Gramophone Society 50016-P]]||USA
|-
|''Prelude''. Moderato [part 2]<br/>''Chorale''. Poco più lento [part 1]||[[Roberts, Marion Mahan (piano)|Marion Roberts]] (piano)||12" / 30 cm<br/>lateral disc||<div style="text-align: center;">W91730-2</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">11 April 1927</div>||Columbia studio,<br/>New York City(?)||<div style="text-align: center;">c. May / June 1927</div>||[[Chicago_Gramophone_Society_50016-P,_50017-P|Chicago Gramophone Society 50016-P]]||USA
|-
|''Chorale''. Poco più lento [part 2]<br/>(Fugue). Poco allegro [part 1]||[[Roberts, Marion Mahan (piano)|Marion Roberts]] (piano)||12" / 30 cm<br/>lateral disc||<div style="text-align: center;">W91731-1</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">11 April 1927</div>||Columbia studio,<br/>New York City(?)||<div style="text-align: center;">c. May / June 1927</div>||[[Chicago_Gramophone_Society_50016-P,_50017-P|Chicago Gramophone Society 50017-P]]||USA
|-
|(Fugue). Poco allegro [part 2]||[[Roberts, Marion Mahan (piano)|Marion Roberts]] (piano)||12" / 30 cm<br/>lateral disc||<div style="text-align: center;">W91732-2</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">11 April 1927</div>||Columbia studio,<br/>New York City(?)||<div style="text-align: center;">c. May / June 1927</div>||[[Chicago_Gramophone_Society_50016-P,_50017-P|Chicago Gramophone Society 50017-P]]||USA
|-
|}

==[[Personal Record 50018-P|Catalogue number 50018-P]]==
There is no Chicago Gramophone Society disc with the catalogue number 50018-P. The disc in question was a Personal Record made by Columbia for another client (see [[Personal Record 50018-P|discography]]).

==[[Chicago_Gramophone_Society_50019-P,_50020-P|Second Issue]]==
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%"
! style="width: 14%;" | Selection
! style="width: 12%;" | Artists
! style="width: 6%;" | Format
! style="width: 6%;" | Matrix
! style="width: 8%;" | Recorded
! style="width: 8%;" | Location
! style="width: 6%;" | Issued
! style="width: 13%;" | Label cat. no.
! style="width: 3%;" | Country
|-
|'''Carpenter''' ''Water-Colors''<br/>(i) ''On a Screen''<br/>(ii) ''The Odalisque''||[[Hager, Mina (mezzo-soprano)|Mina Hager]] (mezzo-soprano),<br/>[[Carpenter, John Alden|John Alden Carpenter]] (piano)||12" / 30 cm<br/>lateral disc||<div style="text-align: center;">W91733-2</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">5 December 1927</div>||Columbia studio,<br/>New York City(?)||<div style="text-align: center;">c. January / February 1928</div>||[[Chicago_Gramophone_Society_50019-P,_50020-P|Chicago Gramophone Society 50019-P]]||USA
|-
|(iii) ''Highwaymen''<br/>(iv) ''To a Young Gentleman''||[[Hager, Mina (mezzo-soprano)|Mina Hager]] (mezzo-soprano),<br/>[[Carpenter, John Alden|John Alden Carpenter]] (piano)||12" / 30 cm<br/>lateral disc||<div style="text-align: center;">W91734-2</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">5 December 1927</div>||Columbia studio,<br/>New York City(?)||<div style="text-align: center;">c. January / February 1928</div>||[[Chicago_Gramophone_Society_50019-P,_50020-P|Chicago Gramophone Society 50019-P]]||USA
|-
|'''Wolf''' ''Auch kleine Dinge'' (''E'en Little Things'')<br/>''Nimmersatte Liebe'' (''Insatiable Love'')||[[Hager, Mina (mezzo-soprano)|Mina Hager]] (mezzo-soprano),<br/>[[Kimsey, Lora Orth (piano)|Lora Orth Kimsey]] (piano)||12" / 30 cm<br/>lateral disc||<div style="text-align: center;">W91735-4</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12 December 1927</div>||Columbia studio,<br/>New York City(?)||<div style="text-align: center;">c. January / February 1928</div>||[[Chicago_Gramophone_Society_50019-P,_50020-P|Chicago Gramophone Society 50020-P]]||USA
|-
|'''Strauss''' ''Blindenklage'' Op.56 No.2<br/>(''Lament of the Blind'')|||[[Hager, Mina (mezzo-soprano)|Mina Hager]] (mezzo-soprano),<br/>[[Kimsey, Lora Orth (piano)|Lora Orth Kimsey]] (piano)||12" / 30 cm<br/>lateral disc||<div style="text-align: center;">W91736-4</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12 December 1927</div>||Columbia studio,<br/>New York City(?)||<div style="text-align: center;">c. January / February 1928</div>||[[Chicago_Gramophone_Society_50019-P,_50020-P|Chicago Gramophone Society 50020-P]]||USA
|-
|}

==Unissued Recordings==
Columbia's 'Personal Record' series has not been documented in full, so it is possible that other recordings were made for the Chicago Gramophone Society but not issued. To date, none are known.

In November 1925, [[Carpenter, John Alden|John Alden Carpenter]] recorded a piano reduction of his ballet <span class="plainlinks">[http://americansymphony.org/skyscrapers/ ''Skyscrapers'']</span>. The [[Carpenter, John Alden#Private|recording]] has apparently been thought to have been made for the Society,<ref>A copy of Carpenter's recording survives in private hands; the owner wishes to remain anonymous and is not known to the author of this wiki. A transfer of the discs was made in the 1990s and has circulated privately, ostensibly bearing a Chicago Gramophone Society label, but this is a mock-up.<br />I am grateful to Bill Anderson of Chicago for the above information and observation (private communications, 28 July and 7 August 2018)</ref> but this is highly unlikely: it was recorded almost a year before the Society was [[Chicago Gramophone Society#Formation|first heard of]] and would have been neither suitable nor practical to issue. In fact, Carpenter's recording was almost certainly intended as an aid to the ballet's first ever staging, at the <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Opera Metropolitan Opera]</span> in New York in February 1926 (see [[Carpenter, John Alden#Private|provisional discography and discussion]]).

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Chicago Gramophone Society]][[Category:Label discographies]]

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 Chicago Gramophone Society issues were recorded and pressed by Columbia's 'Personal Record' department, launched in 1915.<ref>Brooks, Tim <span class="plainlinks">[https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/resources/detail/111 'Columbia Corporate History: Personal Recording']</span>, from Rust, Brian and Brooks, Tim ''The Columbia Master Book Discography, Volume I, U.S. matrix series 1 through 4999, 1901-1910 with a history of the Columbia Phonograph Company to 1934'', Westport, Connecticut Greenwood Press, 1999</ref> The catalogue numbers were not peculiar to the Society but were taken from a Columbia 'Personal' recording series starting at 50001-P.
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-|'''Franck''' ''Prelude, Chorale and Fugue''<br/>''Prelude''. Moderato [part 1]||[[Roberts, Marion Mahan (piano)|Marion Roberts]] (piano)||12" / 30 cm<br/>lateral disc|| <div style="text-align: center;">W91729-2</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">11 April 1927</div>||Columbia studio,<br/>New York City(?)||<div style="text-align: center;">c. May / June 1927</div>||[[Chicago_Gramophone_Society_50016-P,_50017-P|Chicago Gramophone Society 50016-P]]||USA
+|'''Franck''' Prelude, Chorale and Fugue – Part 1<br/>Prelude. Moderato [part 1]||[[Roberts, Marion Mahan (piano)|Marion Roberts]] (piano)||12" / 30 cm<br/>lateral disc|| <div style="text-align: center;">W91729-2</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">11 April 1927</div>||Columbia studio,<br/>New York City(?)||<div style="text-align: center;">c. May / June 1927</div>||[[Chicago_Gramophone_Society_50016-P,_50017-P|Chicago Gramophone Society 50016-P]]||USA
 |-
-|''Prelude''. Moderato [part 2]<br/>''Chorale''. Poco più lento [part 1]||[[Roberts, Marion Mahan (piano)|Marion Roberts]] (piano)||12" / 30 cm<br/>lateral disc||<div style="text-align: center;">W91730-2</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">11 April 1927</div>||Columbia studio,<br/>New York City(?)||<div style="text-align: center;">c. May / June 1927</div>||[[Chicago_Gramophone_Society_50016-P,_50017-P|Chicago Gramophone Society 50016-P]]||USA
+|'''Franck''' Prelude, Chorale and Fugue – Part 2<br/>Prelude. Moderato [part 2]<br/>Chorale. Poco più lento [part 1]||[[Roberts, Marion Mahan (piano)|Marion Roberts]] (piano)||12" / 30 cm<br/>lateral disc||<div style="text-align: center;">W91730-2</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">11 April 1927</div>||Columbia studio,<br/>New York City(?)||<div style="text-align: center;">c. May / June 1927</div>||[[Chicago_Gramophone_Society_50016-P,_50017-P|Chicago Gramophone Society 50016-P]]||USA
 |-
-|''Chorale''. Poco più lento [part 2]<br/>(Fugue). Poco allegro [part 1]||[[Roberts, Marion Mahan (piano)|Marion Roberts]] (piano)||12" / 30 cm<br/>lateral disc||<div style="text-align: center;">W91731-1</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">11 April 1927</div>||Columbia studio,<br/>New York City(?)||<div style="text-align: center;">c. May / June 1927</div>||[[Chicago_Gramophone_Society_50016-P,_50017-P|Chicago Gramophone Society 50017-P]]||USA
+|'''Franck''' Prelude, Chorale and Fugue – Part 3<br/>Chorale. Poco più lento [part 2]<br/>(Fugue). Poco allegro [part 1]||[[Roberts, Marion Mahan (piano)|Marion Roberts]] (piano)||12" / 30 cm<br/>lateral disc||<div style="text-align: center;">W91731-1</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">11 April 1927</div>||Columbia studio,<br/>New York City(?)||<div style="text-align: center;">c. May / June 1927</div>||[[Chicago_Gramophone_Society_50016-P,_50017-P|Chicago Gramophone Society 50017-P]]||USA
 |-
-|(Fugue). Poco allegro [part 2]||[[Roberts, Marion Mahan (piano)|Marion Roberts]] (piano)||12" / 30 cm<br/>lateral disc||<div style="text-align: center;">W91732-2</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">11 April 1927</div>||Columbia studio,<br/>New York City(?)||<div style="text-align: center;">c. May / June 1927</div>||[[Chicago_Gramophone_Society_50016-P,_50017-P|Chicago Gramophone Society 50017-P]]||USA
+|'''Franck''' Prelude, Chorale and Fugue – Part 4<br/>(Fugue). Poco allegro [part 2]||[[Roberts, Marion Mahan (piano)|Marion Roberts]] (piano)||12" / 30 cm<br/>lateral disc||<div style="text-align: center;">W91732-2</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">11 April 1927</div>||Columbia studio,<br/>New York City(?)||<div style="text-align: center;">c. May / June 1927</div>||[[Chicago_Gramophone_Society_50016-P,_50017-P|Chicago Gramophone Society 50017-P]]||USA
 |-
-|}
+|'''Carpenter''' ''Water-Colors'' –<br/>(i) ''On a Screen''<br/>(ii) ''The Odalisque''||[[Hager, Mina (mezzo-soprano)|Mina Hager]] (mezzo-soprano),<br/>[[Carpenter, John Alden|John Alden Carpenter]] (piano)||12" / 30 cm<br/>lateral disc||<div style="text-align: center;">W91733-2</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">5 December 1927</div>||Columbia studio,<br/>New York City(?)||<div style="text-align: center;">c. January / February 1928</div>||[[Chicago_Gramophone_Society_50019-P,_50020-P|Chicago Gramophone Society 50019-P]]||USA
 |-
-|(iii) ''Highwaymen''<br/>(iv) ''To a Young Gentleman''||[[Hager, Mina (mezzo-soprano)|Mina Hager]] (mezzo-soprano),<br/>[[Carpenter, John Alden|John Alden Carpenter]] (piano)||12" / 30 cm<br/>lateral disc||<div style="text-align: center;">W91734-2</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">5 December 1927</div>||Columbia studio,<br/>New York City(?)||<div style="text-align: center;">c. January / February 1928</div>||[[Chicago_Gramophone_Society_50019-P,_50020-P|Chicago Gramophone Society 50019-P]]||USA
+|'''Carpenter''' ''Water-Colors'' –<br/>(iii) ''Highwaymen''<br/>(iv) ''To a Young Gentleman''||[[Hager, Mina (mezzo-soprano)|Mina Hager]] (mezzo-soprano),<br/>[[Carpenter, John Alden|John Alden Carpenter]] (piano)||12" / 30 cm<br/>lateral disc||<div style="text-align: center;">W91734-2</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">5 December 1927</div>||Columbia studio,<br/>New York City(?)||<div style="text-align: center;">c. January / February 1928</div>||[[Chicago_Gramophone_Society_50019-P,_50020-P|Chicago Gramophone Society 50019-P]]||USA
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 |'''Wolf''' ''Auch kleine Dinge'' (''E'en Little Things'')<br/>''Nimmersatte Liebe'' (''Insatiable Love'')||[[Hager, Mina (mezzo-soprano)|Mina Hager]] (mezzo-soprano),<br/>[[Kimsey, Lora Orth (piano)|Lora Orth Kimsey]] (piano)||12" / 30 cm<br/>lateral disc||<div style="text-align: center;">W91735-4</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12 December 1927</div>||Columbia studio,<br/>New York City(?)||<div style="text-align: center;">c. January / February 1928</div>||[[Chicago_Gramophone_Society_50019-P,_50020-P|Chicago Gramophone Society 50020-P]]||USA

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 This page presents a discography of the '''Chicago Gramophone Society'''.
-It is part of the wiki [[Classical 'Society' Records by Nick Morgan]].
+It is part of the site [[Classical 'Society' Records by Nick Morgan]].
 For an account of the Society itself, please see [[Chicago Gramophone Society]].
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 Columbia's 'Personal Record' series has not been documented in full, so it is possible that other recordings were made for the Chicago Gramophone Society but not issued. To date, none are known.
-In November 1925, [[Carpenter, John Alden|John Alden Carpenter]] recorded a piano reduction of his ballet <span class="plainlinks">[http://americansymphony.org/skyscrapers/ ''Skyscrapers'']</span>. The [[Carpenter, John Alden#Private|recording]] has apparently been thought to have been made for the Society,<ref>A copy of Carpenter's recording survives in private hands; the owner wishes to remain anonymous and is not known to the author of this wiki. A transfer of the discs was made in the 1990s and has circulated privately, ostensibly bearing a Chicago Gramophone Society label, but this is a mock-up.<br />I am grateful to Bill Anderson of Chicago for the above information and observation (private communications, 28 July and 7 August 2018)</ref> but this is highly unlikely: it was recorded almost a year before the Society was [[Chicago Gramophone Society#Formation|first heard of]] and would have been neither suitable nor practical to issue. In fact, Carpenter's recording was almost certainly intended as an aid to the ballet's first ever staging, at the <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Opera Metropolitan Opera]</span> in New York in February 1926 (see [[Carpenter, John Alden#Private|provisional discography and discussion]]).
+In November 1925, [[Carpenter, John Alden|John Alden Carpenter]] recorded a piano reduction of his ballet <span class="plainlinks">[http://americansymphony.org/skyscrapers/ ''Skyscrapers'']</span>. The [[Carpenter, John Alden#Private|recording]] has apparently been thought to have been made for the Society,<ref>A copy of Carpenter's recording survives in private hands; the owner wishes to remain anonymous and is not known to the author. A transfer of the discs was made in the 1990s and has circulated privately, ostensibly bearing a Chicago Gramophone Society label, but this is a mock-up.<br />I am grateful to Bill Anderson of Chicago for the above information and observation (private communications, 28 July and 7 August 2018)</ref> but this is highly unlikely: it was recorded almost a year before the Society was [[Chicago Gramophone Society#Formation|first heard of]] and would have been neither suitable nor practical to issue. In fact, Carpenter's recording was almost certainly intended as an aid to the ballet's first ever staging, at the <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Opera Metropolitan Opera]</span> in New York in February 1926 (see [[Carpenter, John Alden#Private|provisional discography and discussion]]).
 ==[[Personal Record 50018-P|50018-P]]==

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 In November 1925, [[Carpenter, John Alden|John Alden Carpenter]] recorded a piano reduction of his ballet <span class="plainlinks">[http://americansymphony.org/skyscrapers/ ''Skyscrapers'']</span>. The [[Carpenter, John Alden#Private|recording]] has apparently been thought to have been made for the Society,<ref>A copy of Carpenter's recording survives in private hands; the owner wishes to remain anonymous and is not known to the author of this wiki. A transfer of the discs was made in the 1990s and has circulated privately, ostensibly bearing a Chicago Gramophone Society label, but this is a mock-up.<br />I am grateful to Bill Anderson of Chicago for the above information and observation (private communications, 28 July and 7 August 2018)</ref> but this is highly unlikely: it was recorded almost a year before the Society was [[Chicago Gramophone Society#Formation|first heard of]] and would have been neither suitable nor practical to issue. In fact, Carpenter's recording was almost certainly intended as an aid to the ballet's first ever staging, at the <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Opera Metropolitan Opera]</span> in New York in February 1926 (see [[Carpenter, John Alden#Private|provisional discography and discussion]]).
-==[[Personal Record 50018-P|Catalogue number 50018-P]]==
+==[[Personal Record 50018-P|50018-P]]==
 There is no Chicago Gramophone Society disc with the catalogue number 50018-P.  The disc in question was a Personal Record made by Columbia for another client (see [[Personal Record 50018-P|discography]]).

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 For an account of the Society itself, please see [[Chicago Gramophone Society]].
-Dates of '''page creation''' and '''latest update''': see 'Page information' in sidebar.
+For more details about each work, artist and issue (price, distribution, reception, transfers etc.), please follow the links in each table.
-==Catalogue numbers==
+For dates of creation and latest update, please see 'Page information' in left sidebar.
 All issues were recorded using the Western Electric system, under licence to Columbia, as denoted by the logo Ⓦ preceding matrix numbers. This symbol cannot be searched for in MediaWiki, and so is not used in the tables below.
-For more details about each work, artist and issue (price, distribution, reception, transfers etc.), please follow the links in each table.
+===Catalogue numbers===
 ==[[Chicago_Gramophone_Society_50016-P,_50017-P|First Issue]]==
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 ==[[Chicago_Gramophone_Society_50019-P,_50020-P|Second Issue]]==
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 In November 1925, [[Carpenter, John Alden|John Alden Carpenter]] recorded a piano reduction of his ballet <span class="plainlinks">[http://americansymphony.org/skyscrapers/ ''Skyscrapers'']</span>. The [[Carpenter, John Alden#Private|recording]] has apparently been thought to have been made for the Society,<ref>A copy of Carpenter's recording survives in private hands; the owner wishes to remain anonymous and is not known to the author of this wiki. A transfer of the discs was made in the 1990s and has circulated privately, ostensibly bearing a Chicago Gramophone Society label, but this is a mock-up.<br />I am grateful to Bill Anderson of Chicago for the above information and observation (private communications, 28 July and 7 August 2018)</ref> but this is highly unlikely: it was recorded almost a year before the Society was [[Chicago Gramophone Society#Formation|first heard of]] and would have been neither suitable nor practical to issue. In fact, Carpenter's recording was almost certainly intended as an aid to the ballet's first ever staging, at the <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Opera Metropolitan Opera]</span> in New York in February 1926 (see [[Carpenter, John Alden#Private|provisional discography and discussion]]).
 ==References==