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The Harmonic Minor Scale
Speaker: Oscar Saenger (1868-1929)
Tenor vocalist (uncredited): Paul Althouse (1889-1954)
Pianist (uncredited): William Falk (no dates)
Recorded: November 9, 1915 in New York, New York (take four)
Oscar Saenger (January 5, 1868 - April 20, 1929): Singing teacher. With the Victor Talking Machine Company he produced a complete course in vocal training in twenty lessons.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Saenger
Paul Shearer Althouse (December 2, 1889 – February 6, 1954): American opera singer. He began his career as a lyric tenor with a robust Italianate sound, in roles including Cavaradossi in Tosca, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, and Turiddu in Cavalleria rusticana. He later branched out into the dramatic tenor repertoire, finding success in portraying Wagnerian heroes. He sang with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City for 30 years.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Althouse*
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The Harmonic Minor Scale
Speaker: Oscar Saenger (1868-1929)
Tenor vocalist (uncredited): Paul Althouse (1889-1954)
Pianist (uncredited): William Falk (no dates)
Recorded: November 9, 1915 in New York, New York (take four)
Oscar Saenger (January 5, 1868 - April 20, 1929): Singing teacher. With the Victor Talking Machine Company he produced a complete course in vocal training in twenty lessons.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Saenger
Paul Shearer Althouse (December 2, 1889 – February 6, 1954): American opera singer. He began his career as a lyric tenor with a robust Italianate sound, in roles including Cavaradossi in Tosca, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, and Turiddu in Cavalleria rusticana. He later branched out into the dramatic tenor repertoire, finding success in portraying Wagnerian heroes. He sang with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City for 30 years.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Althouse*
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![Tenor Ben DAVIES: A Spring Night; I Attempt From Loves Sickness To Fly (1924)
Tenor Ben Davies (1858-1943)
A Spring Night (Schumann) I Attempt From Loves Sickness To Fly from The Indian Queen (Purcell, Arr. W. H. Cummings)
Recorded: 1924
The Gramophone advertisement is from The Observer (London, Greater London, England), Sunday, January 6, 1924 (page 7)
Ben Davies (6 January 1858 – 28 March 1943): Welsh tenor singer who appeared with the Carl Rosa Opera Company, in operetta and light opera, and on the concert and oratorio platform. He was spoken of as a successor of Edward Lloyd as a leading British tenor and retained something of his style and repertoire in concert performance. The earliest recordings by Davies are Pathé brown wax cylinders from the mid-1890s. Davies had an early start among British singers in making gramophone records, beginning in 1901. Joe Batten noted: Sir Landon Ronald persuaded [him] to make his first records. He had laughed at the idea of singing into a tin trumpet, but when the test record of Henry Bishops My Pretty Jane was played back to him, he was inexpressibly delighted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Davies_(tenor)
******************************************* Tenor Ben DAVIES: A Spring Night; I Attempt From Loves Sickness To Fly (1924)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RLnrK4v2lQ4/mqdefault.jpg)
