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(1) Ah Love but a Day
(2) The Year's at the Spring
Robert Browning (author)
H. H. A. Beach (composer)
Josef Pasternack (conductor)
Recorded: Thursday, March 7, 1918 (2nd take) Camden, New Jersey
Discography of American Historical Recordings:
http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/700006612/C-21492-Ah_love_but_a_day
The following is from the 2015 Holdridge Record Auction Catalog, Musical Courier, University of Michigan, and Ancestry.com:
LAURA COMSTOCK LITTLEFIELD (soprano): 1882, Boston, MA - 1941, Durham, NC, (en route to Florida). A graduate of Radcliffe College in 1904, among the artists likely to be completely forgotten today had she not recorded, Mrs. Littlefield was a gifted concert soprano heard in the Boston area in the ‘teens to the mid- ‘20s of the last century. She had been a soloist with the Boston Symphony, the Händel and Haydn Society, the Cecilia Society of Boston and with various festivals in New England. In addition she frequently gave recitals, one in Aeolian Hall in New York, 1925, eliciting extraordinary praise from critic W. J. Henderson. In the November 9, 1922 edition of Musical Courier (page 33), the magazine announces her return to the United States from Europe, where she had studied with Jean De Reszke, Mrs. Littlefield describing the noted tenor as "an inspiration from the moment you enter the door until you leave." From 1930 - 1934 Mrs. Littlefield was assistant Professor of Music at the University of Michigan.
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(1) Ah Love but a Day
(2) The Year's at the Spring
Robert Browning (author)
H. H. A. Beach (composer)
Josef Pasternack (conductor)
Recorded: Thursday, March 7, 1918 (2nd take) Camden, New Jersey
Discography of American Historical Recordings:
http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/700006612/C-21492-Ah_love_but_a_day
The following is from the 2015 Holdridge Record Auction Catalog, Musical Courier, University of Michigan, and Ancestry.com:
LAURA COMSTOCK LITTLEFIELD (soprano): 1882, Boston, MA - 1941, Durham, NC, (en route to Florida). A graduate of Radcliffe College in 1904, among the artists likely to be completely forgotten today had she not recorded, Mrs. Littlefield was a gifted concert soprano heard in the Boston area in the ‘teens to the mid- ‘20s of the last century. She had been a soloist with the Boston Symphony, the Händel and Haydn Society, the Cecilia Society of Boston and with various festivals in New England. In addition she frequently gave recitals, one in Aeolian Hall in New York, 1925, eliciting extraordinary praise from critic W. J. Henderson. In the November 9, 1922 edition of Musical Courier (page 33), the magazine announces her return to the United States from Europe, where she had studied with Jean De Reszke, Mrs. Littlefield describing the noted tenor as "an inspiration from the moment you enter the door until you leave." From 1930 - 1934 Mrs. Littlefield was assistant Professor of Music at the University of Michigan.
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