Re: Cantor G. Sirota, the Tenor.

[Eric Goldberg <ericgoldie...>]

>Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 22:25:22 -0500
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>From: Görgen Antonsson <antonsson(dot)se (at) mbox304(dot)swipnet(dot)se>
>To: 78 RPM Records  <78-l (at) cornell(dot)edu>
>Subject: Re: Cantor G. Sirota, the Tenor.
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>owner-78-l (at) cornell(dot)edu:
>> a zonophone with mx 70901 in wax seems to have been recorded in warsaw.
>> (the zo issue number has an X-2 prefix)
>> pvc
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>
>There are some early Kantoren on European labels
>described at:
>http://sunsite.kth.se/feastlib/mrf/yinyue/youtai/cantors/OLDcantoren.html
>
>(that's what I call a loooooong URL!)
>
>You'll find some lovely label shots, including one of a
>Beka record *shown* as being by Sirota ... but when
>checked with Hansfried Sieben's "Beka: Band 1: die
>Matrizen-Nummern die akustischen Aufnahmen mit
>verschiedenen Durchmessern und teilweiser Rekonstruktion
>von 174 bis 15999 (1904 bis 1915)", 2. erw. Aufl.
>(Dusseldorf: H. Sieben, 1992) [Don't you just _love_
>these German titles!], it turned out to be a mislabeling of a
>1907 recording by a "Oberkantor Wilder aus Odessa"!
>   And when I looked up the recordings by Wilder on the
>same label (mx. 13079 to 13090) ... they were actually
>by - Gerson Sirota, recorded in 1910!
>
>These early acoustical records can really drive you nuts!
>
>Gorgen Antonsson