1907 ELLEN BEACH YAW SWISS ECHO SONG high G 78

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WEEK 2 or 3 weeks of great auctions, I am happy to hold your winnings and bill you at the end of the cycle. IMPORTANT: I AM HAPPY COMBINE MULTIPLE SHIPMENTS. IF YOU WIN MULTIPLE ITEMS DO NOT USE EBAY CHECK OUT to get low combined postage. Send me an invoice request instead. A series of great early Opera performances: From 1902 G&Ts to 40s wartime German records: ELLEN BEACH YAW - Marchesi Student and characterful and excentric singer, was famous for her HIGH G, which was something unique at her time. She never fails to interpolate it in her recordings There is a great mystique about Beach Yaw for her high notes, and here - supported on record - ability to trill in thirds and even fourths Eckerts SWISS ECHO SONG 10" original GRAND PRIZE record 78 rpm record Condition: VERY GOOD PLUS PLUS, basically no wear, surface has some rubbing few faintest scratches. Needle runs on label Ellen Beach Yaw (September 14, 1869 û September 9, 1947) was an American coloratura soprano, best known for her concert singing career. She had an extraordinary vocal range and could produce unusually high notes. Known as "Lark Ellen" or "The California Nightingale," she was reportedly the only known soprano of her era who could sing and sustain the D above high D. She was also able to trill in major thirds or fifths (trills usually involve rapidly alternating notes over an interval of a minor or major second).[1]Life and careerYaw was born in the small town of Boston, near Buffalo, New York (not Boston, Massachusetts, as is often stated),[2] the daughter of Ambrose Yaw, who manufactured cow and sheep bells. Her family moved to Los Angeles when she was very young, but her father died when she was a small child, and the family was very poor. Yaw began singing and composing songs as a child. She studied singing in America, first with her mother; then with Mrs. Torpadie, the wife of tenor Theodore Bjorksten; and then with Ernesto delle Salle.[3] Yaw sang in concerts, beginning as a child in the 1880s, to make money to pay for singing lessons. Tours of the southern United States, California, England, Switzerland, and Germany followed, and on her return to America she gave a concert in Carnegie Hall in 1896. Yaw raised enough money through these concerts to study in Paris with Mathilde Marchesi and later coached with Alberto Randegger. She also sang several opera roles in the late 1890s, including Ophelia in Ambroise Thomas' Hamlet in Nice in 1897.[3][edit] The Rose of PersiaIn 1898 and 1899, Yaw was singing in private concerts in London, and at one of these, at the home of Mrs. Fanny Ronalds, she so impressed Sir Arthur Sullivan that he prevailed upon the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company to cast her as the Sultana Zubedyah in his comic opera The Rose of Persia, which opened on November 29, 1899 at the Savoy Theatre in London. Sullivan went so far as to write a special high cadenza for her song "'Neath My Lattice," a cadenza that only she could sing. Yaw's first two nights were shaky, though the reviews were mixed,[4] and both the music director, Francois Cellier, and Mrs. Carte advocated for her replacement. Sullivan at first agreed, writing in his diary on 2nd December, "I told [Cellier] I was afraid [that Yaw] would not improve, that she hadnÆt got it in her.... I donÆt quite see what itÆs all about ù Miss Yaw is not keeping people out of the theatre as Cellier and the Cartes imply."[5]By December 10th, however, he wrote in his diary that Yaw was "improving rapidly" and "sang the song really superbly: brilliant. So I wrote again to Mrs. Carte saying that I thought if we let Miss Yaw go it would be another mistake."[5] It was too late, however, and the next day Yaw stopped at Sullivan's flat to tell him that she had been dismissed summarily by Mrs. Carte (ostensibly on account of illness). She was replaced by Isabel Jay.[edit] Opera and concert careerYaw made some grand opera appearances thereafter in Monte Carl... read more

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