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but it was in Michigan, so 99% of the list won't be interested, because she
- wasn't famous
- didn't sing at the Met
for those of you who are interested, it was great fun for me, and frustrating for 99.9% of the people at the sale, who knew NOTHING about opera.
I actually chased people out of the basement where the records were stored, because a couple of Homers who were looking for 1950s-60s doo wop were dropping and breaking 45s of Marian Anderson on the cement floor.
Almost all the 78s were broken by people who were sorting through everything like pigs at a trough.
I did manage to rescue one Victrola record by Ernestine-Schumann Heink, and a lovely assortment of 45s with the original dust jacket cardboard sleeves in mint condition:
a complete Otello with Toscanini, Nelly, Vinay, Valdengo
about 8 discs of Maria Cebotari, a few of them duets with Heinrich Schlusnus
Gigli-DeLuca duets
3 Freida Leider discs, conducted by Barbirolli
Nan Merriman singing Debussy
Gladys Swarthout in La Perichole
Dorothy Maynor, Leinsdorf conducting
Marian Anderson singing Schubert
Fedora Barbieri in Trovatore
Hermann Prey discs
many Gerard Souzay discs
Jan Peerce singing Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life
Erna Berger - Brahms
Jennie Tourel - Offenbach
Rita Gorr- Les Troyens and La Vestale'
Lucerzia Bori
all of these will get converted to digital and entered into the station playlist.
...and those are just the 45s.
I also picked up full 33 1/3 sets, but not many. The estate sale manager was more interested in what her movie card lobby cards would go for, and would not negotiate at all, so I had to leave behind a LOT of box sets. (sigh)
I also picked up a few large coffee table books of various opera houses and complete collections of sheet music.
It was very entertaining watching the disappointment on the faces of the rednecks who thought they were going to score some antiques to resell.
They left lovely 1920s era evening dresses on the FLOOR of the closet.
All in all, an entertaining day - I wished I had had a listmember with me to share the fun.
- wasn't famous
- didn't sing at the Met
for those of you who are interested, it was great fun for me, and frustrating for 99.9% of the people at the sale, who knew NOTHING about opera.
I actually chased people out of the basement where the records were stored, because a couple of Homers who were looking for 1950s-60s doo wop were dropping and breaking 45s of Marian Anderson on the cement floor.
Almost all the 78s were broken by people who were sorting through everything like pigs at a trough.
I did manage to rescue one Victrola record by Ernestine-Schumann Heink, and a lovely assortment of 45s with the original dust jacket cardboard sleeves in mint condition:
a complete Otello with Toscanini, Nelly, Vinay, Valdengo
about 8 discs of Maria Cebotari, a few of them duets with Heinrich Schlusnus
Gigli-DeLuca duets
3 Freida Leider discs, conducted by Barbirolli
Nan Merriman singing Debussy
Gladys Swarthout in La Perichole
Dorothy Maynor, Leinsdorf conducting
Marian Anderson singing Schubert
Fedora Barbieri in Trovatore
Hermann Prey discs
many Gerard Souzay discs
Jan Peerce singing Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life
Erna Berger - Brahms
Jennie Tourel - Offenbach
Rita Gorr- Les Troyens and La Vestale'
Lucerzia Bori
all of these will get converted to digital and entered into the station playlist.
...and those are just the 45s.
I also picked up full 33 1/3 sets, but not many. The estate sale manager was more interested in what her movie card lobby cards would go for, and would not negotiate at all, so I had to leave behind a LOT of box sets. (sigh)
I also picked up a few large coffee table books of various opera houses and complete collections of sheet music.
It was very entertaining watching the disappointment on the faces of the rednecks who thought they were going to score some antiques to resell.
They left lovely 1920s era evening dresses on the FLOOR of the closet.
All in all, an entertaining day - I wished I had had a listmember with me to share the fun.