1916-1917 programme
Some of the advertisements from the programme for Wagner’s opera Siegfried for the 1916~1917 season at the Coliseum of the Ona B. Talbot Fine Arts Association of Indiana. The cast included Schumann-Heink and Frida Hempel with the conductor Artur Bodanzky over the augmented Metropolitan Opera House Orch.
Edison 'new' invention -
According to the 1920 Edison catalogue he spent over $3million perfecting his ‘re-creation’ process – Edison refused to speak of his records as anything else.
He then did public tests where artists stood beside a player and sang so the public could compare the recording with the live voice. Edison claimed that it was impossible to tell the difference.
He actually hired places like Carnegie Hall in New York and Symphony Hall in Boston and claimed that upwards of 3,000,000 music lovers and critics attended these comparisons throughout the U.S.A.
It is of note that over 90% of the programme was taken up with ads and also note the long surgery hours of the ‘Boston Painless Dentist’ – 12 hours a day but only 4 on Sundays!
1916-1917 programme
Some of the advertisements from the programme for Wagner’s opera Siegfried for the 1916~1917 season at the Coliseum of the Ona B. Talbot Fine Arts Association of Indiana. The cast included Schumann-Heink and Frida Hempel with the conductor Artur Bodanzky over the augmented Metropolitan Opera House Orch.
Edison 'new' invention -
According to the 1920 Edison catalogue he spent over $3million perfecting his ‘re-creation’ process – Edison refused to speak of his records as anything else.
He then did public tests where artists stood beside a player and sang so the public could compare the recording with the live voice. Edison claimed that it was impossible to tell the difference.
He actually hired places like Carnegie Hall in New York and Symphony Hall in Boston and claimed that upwards of 3,000,000 music lovers and critics attended these comparisons throughout the U.S.A.
It is of note that over 90% of the programme was taken up with ads and also note the long surgery hours of the ‘Boston Painless Dentist’ – 12 hours a day but only 4 on Sundays!