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297 Printed Material Musical Biographies/Autobiographies 4506 PRINTED MATERIAL MUSICAL BIOGRAPHIES/AUTOBIOGRAPHIES 4507. A Bio-Bibliography of Composer WARREN BENSON. By Alan D. Wagner. Illustrated. 415 pp. Meller Press, 2005. I studied composition with Mr. Benson and mainly remember his general remarks, mostly on the clever but snide side. After seeing a concert with Poulenc and soprano Denise Duval, I reported as to how wonderful it was and asked if he had been there. “I don’t need Poulenc’s music and he doesn’t need my money” was his response. In the early 1960s Ithaca College (where he taught at the time and where I was a student) was building a new campus. I asked him what he thought of the architectural style. “Neo-motel”, he responded. As new. $20.00. 4534. Oklahoma Tenor – Musical Memories of GIUSEPPE BENTONELLI. By Joseph Benton. Foreword by Eva Turner. Univ. Oklahoma Press, 1973. Paperback. 150 pp. Illustrated. As New. $10.00. 4509. LEONARD BERNSTEIN [conductor, composer]. Biography. By David Ewen. W.C. Allen, 1967. DJ. Illustrated. 175 pp. Excellent. $5.00. 4511. JOHN ALDEN CARPENTER [composer]. A Bio-Bibli- ography. Compiled by Joan O’Connor. Greenwood Press, 1994. 248 pp. As new. $15.00. 4549. ENRICO CARUSO AND THE ART OF SINGING. By Salvaore Fucito (Caruso’s coach and accompanist, 1916-1921) and Barnet J. Beyer. Stokes, 1922. 219 pp. Text, in excellent condition, includes Caruso’s vocal exercises and his practical advice to students and teachers of singing, as well as an extensive biographical section. Ex-library copy. Lt. cover wear, markings on title page (and removed card pockets). Pages excellent. $7.00. Item #4559 4553. [ENRICO] CARUSO’S METHOD OF VOICE PRODUCTION. By Dr. P. Mario Marafioti. Preface by Victor Maurel. Appleton, 1927. 300 pp. Includes notated exercises. Excellent. $15.00. 4551. [ENRICO] CARUSO ON RECORDS. By Aida Favia-Artsay. Historic Record, 1965. 218 pp. DJ. Includes stroboscope and tipped-in author’s signature. As new. $50.00. 4519. ENRICO CARUSO – His Recorded Legacy. By John Freestone & H. J. Drummond. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1960. 130 pp. Discussions of all of Caruso’s records. DJ. Scarce. Lt. DJ rubs, otherwise as new. $25.00. 4555. ENRICO CARUSO – UNA VITA UNA LEGGENDA. Pietro Gargano. Mondadori, 1997. 159 pp. DJ. Illustrated. In Italian. As new. $15.00. 4559. ENRICO CARUSO – CRÓNICAS RIOPLATENSES. By Pedro E. Rivero. Dunken, Buenos Aires, 1997. 108 pp. Illustrated. In Spanish. As new. $12.00. 4524. [FEODOR] CHALIAPIN. A Critical Biography. By Victor Borovsky. DJ. Knopf, 1988. Discography by Alan Kelly. 629 pp. Illustrated. As new. $12.00. 4556. IRIS ADAMI CORRADETTI [s]. By Paolo Padoan. Bongiovanni, undated (early 1980s?). 103 pp. Paper covers with DJ. In Italian. Title page inscribed and signed by Iris’s two half-sisters: Adriana Corradetti and Fiora Corradetti Contino. As new. $25.00. 4522. [GAETANO] DONIZETTI and his Operas. By William Ashbrook. 743 pp. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1982. 743 pp. DJ. Excellent. $15.00. 4516. [AMELITA] GALLI-CURCI’S Life of Song. Monitor, 1978. DJ (tiny tear). Photos, Discography. 280 pp. Excellent+. $15.00. 4544. Memories of Opera. By GIULIO GATTI-CASAZZA [Met Gen. Manager]. Scribners, 1941. 326 pp. Writing inside cover. Browning inside covers, otherwise very good. $10.00. 4514. Reminiscences of DE WOLF HOPPER [actor]. With Wesley Winans Stout. Illustrated. Garden City Pub., 1927. 238 pp. Very good. $12.00. 4513. LEOŠ JANÁEK [composer]. A Biography by Jaroslav Vogel, Revised by Karel Janovický. Norton, 1981. 439 pp. Illustrated. DJ. As new. $12.00. 4508. GEORGE JELLINEK [opera commentator]. My Road to Radio and The Vocal Scene. Paper covers. McFarland, 2007. 243 pp. Illustrated. As new. $10.00. 4518. LOTTE LEHMANN [s]– A Centenary Biography. By Alan Jefferson. Julia MacRae, 1988. DJ. Discography. 333 pp. As new. $12.00. 297 PRINTED MATERIAL MUSICAL BIOGRAPHIES/AUTOBIOGRAPHIES 4506. Dearest John - The Story of JOHN LEMMONÉ [flute virtuoso] and NELLIE MELBA [soprano]. Bowerbird Press, 1997. 52 pp. Includes letters from Melba to Lemmoné / EDWARD SIMSON [clarinetist]. Paper covers. Circa. 200 pp. Odd combining of biographies, both by Donald Westlake. Volume I of “Eminent Musicians of Australia” series. Some marks. Very good. $15.00. 4520. JENNIE LIND [s] – Her Tour Through America and Cuba. Stringer & Townsend. 1851. 226 pp. Some light spotting but no other problems. Good. $15.00. 4505. “Oggie” - The Memoirs of OLGA LYNN [soprano]. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1955. 160 pp. Illustrated. Recollections of Melba, de Reszke and others. Inscr. and signed “Oggie”, 1955. Very good. $15.00. 4526. Hollywood Diva – A biography of JEANETTE MACDONALD by Edward Baron Turk. Univ. of Cal. Press, 2000. 467 pp. Illustrated. As new (actually new). $12.00. 4546. GALLIANO MASINI [t]. Biography by Mauro Calvetti. Il Edizione, 1980. 122 pp. Illustrated. Soft cover. In Italian. Slight cover wear, otherwise as new. $15.00. Ital. Columbia Cat., #4562, pg. 296 4517. [NELLIE] MELBA [s]. A biography by John Hetherington. Faber and Faber, 1967. Illustrated. Highly recommended biography. Writing inside cover. DJ (slight soiling). Book otherwise as new. $12.00. 4533. LAURITZ MELCHIOR – The Golden Years of Bayreuth. By Ib Melchior with text and photographs from the scrapbooks of Lauritz Melchior. Baskerville, 2003. 273 pp. Profusely illustrated. DJ. The CD originally included is missing. Otherwise excellent +. $15.00. 4523. [ROSA] PONSELLE. A Singer’s Life. By. Rosa Ponselle & James A. Drake. 328 pp. Doubleday, 1982. 328 pp. DJ. Discography. Excellent. $12.00. 4543. ROSA PONSELLE – A Centenary Biography. By James A. Drake. Amadeus, 1997. 494 pp. DJ. The definitive Ponselle volume. Many photographs, chronology of performances, discography. Signed and dedicated to (the late) Kurt Binar by the author. Looks absolutely mint. $15.00. 4530. The Autobiography of WILL ROGERS. Selected and edited by Donald Day. Hough- ton Mifflin, 1949. 410 pp. Signed by Day and Will Rogers Jr. Excellent. $15.00. 4515. TITO SCHIPA [t]. A biography by Tito Schipa, Jr. Baskerville, 1996. 360 pp. Illustrated. Discography. DJ. Includes a CD. As new. $15.00. 4557. FRANCESCO TAMAGNO [t]. “Otello fu…”, LA VITA DEL GRANDE TENORE. By Mario Ruberi. Torino, 1990. 147 pp. Many illustrations. Hardboard covers with DJ. In Italian. As new. $15.00. 4512. ELINOR REMICK WARREN [pianist/composer]. A Bio-Bibliography. By Virginia Bortin. Greenwood, 1993. 285 pp. Includes a lengthy interview. As new. $15.00. 4521. THE [GIUSEPPE] VERDI – [ARRIGO] BOÏTO CORRESPONDENCE. English language edition by William Weaver. 321 pp. DJ. Illustrated. As new. $15.00. 4547. GIOVANNI ZENATELLO [t]. Biography by Nina Zenatello Consolaro. Verona, 1976. Soft cover with DJ. Illustrated. 157 pp. In Italian. Slightest DJ rubs, otherwise as new. $15.00. REFERENCE and BOOKS ON GROUPS OF ARTISTS 4554. L’ARTE DEL CANTO IN ROMAGNA. By Fernando Battaglia. Bongiovanni, 1979. Paper covers. 260 pp. Biographies and photos of 20th century (and some earlier) Roman singers. Very useful information. In Italian. As new. $15.00. 4541. THE AMERICAN OPERA SINGER – The Lives and Adventures of America’s Great Singers in Opera and Concert from 1895 to the Present. By Peter G. Davis. Doubleday, 1997. 625 pp. A both enjoyable and useful volume. One slightest stain, otherwise as new. $12.00. 4528. THE COMPLETE ENTERTAINMENT DISCOGRAPHY from the mid-1890s to 1942 by Brian Rust with Allen G. Debus. Arlington House, 1973. 675 pp. DJ. Bio- graphical sketches, dates, and discographies of hundreds of popular artists from the period covered. Invaluable. DJ (some tears), otherwise excellent +. $15.00. 298 PRINTED MATERIAL REFERENCE and BOOKS ON GROUPS OF ARTISTS 4529. PIERRE KEY’S MUSIC YEAR BOOK, 1926-27. Pierre Key, 1926. 519 pp. Details on the season’s music events throughout the U.S. Full-page biographies (advertising) of a number of artists, both prominent and obscure. Useful reference work. Excellent. $15.00. 4558. THE LAST PRIMA DONNAS. By Lanfranco Rasponi. Limelight, 1985. Paper covered edition. 633 pp. Interviews with many leading sopranos of the 20th century. Much of the material offers interesting insights into the personalities and foibles of these favorites of ours. Excellent. $12.00. 4545. OPERA STARS. Undated 16 page Soviet Russia pamphlet, probably around 1960. Brief sketches and photos (street attire and roles) of many of the prominent singers active in Russia (U.S.S.R.) at the time. As new. $15.00. 4503. PRIMA DONNAS AND SOUBRETTES by Louis C. Strang. 270 pp. LC. Page, 1900. Bios and photos of a number of leading artists, including Christie Macdonald, Alice Nielsen, Marie Dressler, etc. Writing on inside cover. Gen. 2. $12.00. 4531. VOCAL MASTERY. Talks with Master Singers and Teachers. By Harriette Brower. Stokes, 1920. 292 pp. Illustrated. Interviews with various artists on singing and their thoughts on various musical issues. Includes Caruso, Farrar, Tetrazzini, Maurel, Lilli Lehmann, De Luca, Braslau, Muzio and a number of others. Minor cover wear. Light cover wear. Generally very good. $15.00. 4542. VOICES, SINGERS & CRITICS. By John Steane. Amadeus, 1992. 294 pp. Illus- trated. DJ. “John Steane’s subject, in all three sections of this book, is the art of singing. In the first part he takes the material, the voices themselves, in the second he considers the work and achievement of ten individual singers; and in the third he listens through the ears of an earlier generation of critics, finding much to learn.” As new. $15.00. OPERA HOUSE/COMPANY RELATED BOOKS 4539. BAYREUTH – THE EARLY YEARS – An account of the Wagner Festival, 1876- 1914, as seen by celebrated visitors & participants. Ed. by Robert Hartford. Cambridge, 1980. DJ. Illustrated. As new. $15.00. 4504. OFFIZIELLER BAYREUTHER FESTSPIELFÜHRER, 1937. Official souvenir book of the 1937 Bayreuth Festival. Heavy paper binding (original). Circa. 400 pages. Photos of all performers, various foldouts, articles, advertisements. One loose group of pages. Photo/bio page of Enid Szantho signed by her and dated 1968.
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