View source for Chicago Gramophone Society 50019-P, 50020-P

{| align="right"
| __TOC__
|}
This page presents a discography of the Chicago Gramophone Society's '''second issue'''.

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

For dates of '''creation''' and '''latest update''', please see 'Page information' in left sidebar.

==Contents==
This issue consisted of two double-sided discs containing seven songs for solo voice and piano.

The '''first disc''' contains the four songs which make up the collection <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/Water-colors_(Carpenter%2C_John_Alden) ''Water-Colors, Four Chinese Tone-Poems'']</span> by [[Carpenter, John Alden|John Alden Carpenter]]:<ref>Data adapted from <span class="plainlinks">[http://imslp.org/wiki/Water-colors_(Carpenter,_John_Alden) IMSLP]</span></ref>
*(i) ''On a Screen'' ('A tortoise I see on a lotus-flower resting...'). Text by <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Bai Li Tai Po]</span> (701–762)
*(ii) ''The Odalisque'' ('A gaily dressed damsel steps forth from her bow'r...'). Text by <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Yuxi Liu Yuxi]</span> (772–842)
*(iii) ''Highwaymen'' ('The rainy mist sweeps gently o'er the village by the stream...'). Text by Li She (fl. 806-20). Dedicated to <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&amp;GRid=95754653 Thomas Dobson]</span> (1890-1918)
*(iv) ''To a Young Gentleman'' ('Don't come in, sir, please!'). Anonymous text, from the ''Book of Odes'', traditionally ascribed to <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius Confucius]</span> (551–479 BC). Dedicated to <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Teyte Maggie Teyte]</span>
All the texts were set in English translations by <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Giles Herbert Giles]</span>

The '''second disc''' contains two songs by <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Wolf Hugo Wolf]</span> and one by <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Strauss Richard Strauss]</span>:
*''Auch kleine Dinge'', No.1 of Wolf's <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italienisches_Liederbuch_(Wolf) ''Italienisches Liederbuch'']</span>, Book 1. <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=18983 Text]</span> by <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Heyse Paul Heyse]</span> (translation into German of <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=18981 anonymous Italian original]</span>)
*''Nimmersatte Liebe'', No.9 of Wolf's ''<span class="plainlinks">[http://imslp.org/wiki/M%C3%B6rike-Lieder_(Wolf,_Hugo) Mörike-Lieder]</span>'', Volume 1. <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=11695 Text]</span> by <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_M%C3%B6rike Eduard Mörike]</span>
*''Blindenklage'' ('Wenn ich dich frage, dem das Leben blüht...'), No.2 of Strauss's <span class="plainlinks">[http://imslp.org/wiki/6_Lieder,_Op.56_(Strauss,_Richard) ''6 Lieder'' Op.56]</span>. <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=95816 Text]</span> by <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Friedrich_Henckell Karl Henckell]</span>

==Origination==
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%"
! style="width: 15%;" | Selection
! style="width: 12%;" | Artists
! style="width: 6%;" | Format
! style="width: 6%;" | Matrix
! style="width: 5%;" | Stamper
! style="width: 8%;" | Date
! style="width: 8%;" | Location
! 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;">2-A-2</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">5 December 1927</div>||Columbia studio,<br/>New York City(?)||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;">2-A-1</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">5 December 1927</div>||Columbia studio,<br/>New York City(?)||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;">4-A-1</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12 December 1927</div>||Columbia studio,<br/>New York City(?)||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;">4-A-1</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12 December 1927</div>||Columbia studio,<br/>New York City(?)||Chicago Gramophone Society 50020-P||USA
|-
|}
===System===
Western Electric, under licence to Columbia Phonograph Co., as denoted by the logo Ⓦ preceding matrix numbers. This symbol cannot be searched for in MediaWiki, and so is not used in the above table.

===Cuts===
All items recorded complete and uncut.

===Availability===
Issued January or February 1928, in a limited edition of 200 copies, without leaflet.<br/>
Price US $ 5.00 per set.<br/>
Deletion date unknown; presumably, when sole documented pressing exhausted.

===Sources===
*Audition of digital transfers from original discs held in private collections<ref>Transfers kindly provided by their owners, whose generous help is gratefully acknowledged, as this that of Bill Anderson of Chicago, USA</ref>
*Columbia matrix cards, Sony Music, New York<ref>Provided by kind courtesy of Michael H. Gray (personal communication, 18 September 2015)</ref>
The exact recording location is not certain. In 1917, Columbia 'Personal' Records were made in the Company's Master Manufacturing Department, at 102 West 38th Street, New York City; it is not known if this studio was still in use in 1927.
*<span class="plainlinks">[https://archive.org/stream/PMR_2_4/2_4#page/n26/mode/1up 'The Chicago Gramophone Society hereby...']</span> (notice), ''Music Lovers' Phonograph Monthly Review'', Vol.2 No.4, January 1928, p.146
*<span class="plainlinks">[https://archive.org/stream/PMR_2_8/2_8#page/n27/mode/1up 'Special']</span>, ''Music Lovers' Phonograph Monthly Review'', Vol.2 No.8, May 1928, pp.306-15; unsigned review, probably written by Robert D. Darrell (1903-88)<ref>Darrell, R.D. 'O Pioneer (A Half Century Later)', ''ARSC Journal'', Vol.19 No.1, 1987, pp.4-10</ref>
*[[Pollak, Robert]] <span class="plainlinks">[http://chicagoan.lib.uchicago.edu/xtf/view?docId=bookreader/mvol-0010-v004-i08/mvol-0010-v004-i08.xml;#page/28/mode/1up 'Current Records']</span>, ''The Chicagoan'', Vol.4 No.8, 14 January 1928, p.26
*Additional discographical information from <span class="plainlinks">[http://web.library.yale.edu/music/hsr Yale Collection of Historical Sound Recordings]</span>, Yale University, Newhaven, CT, USA<ref>I am grateful to Andrew Jones of Yale University for kindly forwarding details of these discs from the <span class="plainlinks">[http://web.library.yale.edu/music/hsr Yale Collection of Historical Sound Recordings]</span>, as well as scans of labels (personal communication, 10 December 2015)</ref>

===Notes===
Commissioned and underwritten by [[Fisher, Vories| Vories Fisher]] and [[Pollak, Robert| Robert Pollak]] of the Chicago Gramophone Society.

Song titles are billed on the labels of disc 50020-P in both German and English (see above), but all were sung in German.

Of the seven songs in this issue, only ''Auch kleine Dinge'' was omitted from Clough, Francis F. and Cuming, G.J. ''The World's Encyclopaedia of Recorded Music'', London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1952 ('WERM'), which also gives the singer's surname, under both ''Blinderklage'' [sic] and ''Nimmersatte Liebe'', as 'Heger'.

This issue presented the first commercial recordings of all the above works. The next to be issued were:
*Carpenter ''Water-Colors'', (i) & (ii) only, Mina Hager (mezzo-soprano) and <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celius_Dougherty Celius Dougherty]</span> (piano), recorded c. early 1937 (see Hager's [[Hager, Mina (mezzo-soprano)#Recordings|recordings]])
*Wolf ''Auch kleine Dinge'', <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Gerhardt Elena Gerhardt]</span> (mezzo-soprano) and <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coenraad_V._Bos Coenraad V. Bos]</span> (piano), recorded 9 November 1931, issued 1932 in Hugo Wolf Society Volume I, H.M.V. DB1615-20 (on DB 1618)
*Wolf ''Nimmersatte Liebe'', <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Erb Karl Erb]</span> (tenor) and <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Moore Gerald Moore]</span> (piano), recorded 31 August 1937, issued on H.M.V. DB6813
*Strauss ''Blindenklage'', no further issue on 78 rpm disc

This issue includes Carpenter's sole published commercial recording as a pianist; he is also known to have made one non-commercial recording, provisionally documented [[Carpenter, John Alden#Private|here]].

This issue includes the only known recording by [[Kimsey, Lora Orth (piano)|Kimsey]], who is not credited on labels of disc 50020-P or in press notices, and is named only on Columbia's matrix cards.

===Copies known===
*<span class="plainlinks">[http://web.library.yale.edu/music/hsr Yale Collection of Historical Sound Recordings]</span>, Yale University, Newhaven, CT, USA (50019-P, 50020-P)
*<span class="plainlinks">[http://pegasus.library.ucsb.edu/F/?func=direct&doc_number=001670349&local_base=SBA01 Special Collection, Performing Arts]</span>, University of California at Santa Barbara (50020-P only)
*Private collection, UK (50019-P, 50020-P)
*Private collection, Chicago USA (50020-P only)

==Other issues==
No other issue known.

==Transfers==
No transfers publicly available.

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Chicago Gramophone Society]][[Category:Columbia Personal Records]]