Moran Sends LL Clipping

The clipping includes the following notice and program:

Lotte Lehmann, the only singer whose New York programs are sold out a year in advance, will appear November 18. Her program will be:

Tu lo sai by Torelli; Plaisir d'amour by Martini; If Music Be the Food of Love, Play On by Clifton; She Never Told Her Love by Haydn; Hark, Hark the Lark, Im Abendrot, and Staendchen by Schubert; Schilflied by Mendelssohn; Es traeumte mir and O liebliche Wangen by Brahms; Connais tu le pays--from Mignon by Thomas; L'Ivitation au Voyage by Duparc, Le Miroir by Ferrari, Chere Nuit by Bachelet; Verborgenheit and Auch kleine Dinge by Wolf; and Allerseelen, Morgen and Zueignung by Strauss.

"Above tumbled out of some file. No idea of date, but this is the sort of thing that can help provide the LL repertory." W. R. Moran

The yellowed clipping was sent by William Moran, the grand godfather of discography and founder of the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound. Discogrpahy, thought it is comprised of interminable dull lists of disk numbers, dates, takes, and other arcane material, is the backbone of recording and research in music history.

Perhaps one has to be certifiably insane about old music recordings to have the patience to attend to all the minute detail accurate discography involves. But an ever-growing number of enthusiasts seem to be entering the field. You may have noticed that many of the newer biographies of singers (and other recorded musicians) will have not only a bibliography in the back of the book, but also a dscography, a complete listing, carefully researched, of all the recordings made by the singer, with as much subsidiary data as can be fit in.

Much of this discography making can be traced to Mr. Moran's expert, long-term influence.

A yellowed clipping may tell us what the singer sang, but did not record. Or, recorded...and lost? --JS