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English contralto Miss Marion Beeley (1887-1954) / The call of the homeland (Teschemacher) / Recorded: March 12, 1914 --

Marion Beeley was a contralto who sang at Covent Garden and for whom Sir Edward Elgar wrote the aria 'Hail, Immemorial Ind!' in his opera The Crown of India.

See: hornsociety.org/ihs-people/past-greats/28-people/past-greats/122-brain

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