Christie MacDonald - Day Dreams, Visions Of Bliss (1911)
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Christie MacDonald " sings "Day Dreams, Visions Of Bliss," a song by Heinrich Reinhardt.
It is from the Viennese operetta The Spring Maid (Die Sprudelfee).
Recorded on October 27, 1911.
Who are the other singers? The Lyric Quartet consisted of Lucy Isabelle Marsh, Marguerite Dunlap, Reinald Werrenrath, and Harry Macdonough.
Christie MacDonald was born on February 28, 1875, in Pictou, Nova Scotia.
She was raised in Boston.
MacDonald performed in a string of musicals from the 1890s until her retirement in 1920.
All five of her issued records were of songs she introduced on stage. Hers are "creator" records issued in Victor's single-sided purple label series, ten-inch 60000 and twelve-inch 70000.
She was a stage star beginning in 1900, playing the title role in The Princess Chic. The soprano was even more successful as Princess Bozena in The Spring Maid. This American adaptation of a German show, Die Sprudelfee, opened at the Liberty Theater on December 26, 1910.
Music was by Heinrich Reinhardt, and Harry B. Smith (best known as a librettist and lyricist for Victor Herbert) did the adaptation. MacDonald cut two numbers from the show during her first two sessions. Her first was on October 23, 1911, which produced "Two Little Love Bees" (Victor 60060), sung with Reinald Werrenrath.
On the day of that session, English comic Tom McNaughton, also a cast member of The Spring Maid, recorded from the show "The Three Trees" (Victor 5866, reissued as 17222). Matrix numbers indicate he recorded his monologue after MacDonald was finished.
She returned four days later to record a second time "Day Dreams, Visions of Bliss" (Victor 60061, reissued in 1920 on 45189), with the Lyric Quartet. She had sung it during her first session but that take was rejected.
She returned to Victor for two final sessions a year and a half later, on April 22 and 25, 1913. Since March 13, 1913, she had starred as Sylvia in a highly successful Victor Herbert light opera, Sweethearts (it opened in Baltimore and made its New York debut on September 8, 1913).
Numbers from the show that she recorded are "The Angelus" (with Werrenrath and the Victor Male Chorus, Victor 70099, reissued in 1921 on 55113), "The Cricket On The Hearth" (with Werrenrath, Victor 60102, reissued in 1920 on 45189), and "Sweethearts" (Victor 60101).
Victor catalogs state, "Her clear and sweet voice is perfectly recorded, and these reproductions will delight those who will not have an opportunity to hear her in person; while the fortunate ones who have seen these operas [The Spring Maid and Sweethearts] will find in the records a delightful souvenir of a pleasant evening."
Her first husband was William Winter Jefferson, son of stage star Joseph Jefferson. The 1918 edition of the International Who's Who in Music states that she married Henry Lloyd Gillespie in 1912.
The singer died on July 25, 1962.
It is from the Viennese operetta The Spring Maid (Die Sprudelfee).
Recorded on October 27, 1911.
Who are the other singers? The Lyric Quartet consisted of Lucy Isabelle Marsh, Marguerite Dunlap, Reinald Werrenrath, and Harry Macdonough.
Christie MacDonald was born on February 28, 1875, in Pictou, Nova Scotia.
She was raised in Boston.
MacDonald performed in a string of musicals from the 1890s until her retirement in 1920.
All five of her issued records were of songs she introduced on stage. Hers are "creator" records issued in Victor's single-sided purple label series, ten-inch 60000 and twelve-inch 70000.
She was a stage star beginning in 1900, playing the title role in The Princess Chic. The soprano was even more successful as Princess Bozena in The Spring Maid. This American adaptation of a German show, Die Sprudelfee, opened at the Liberty Theater on December 26, 1910.
Music was by Heinrich Reinhardt, and Harry B. Smith (best known as a librettist and lyricist for Victor Herbert) did the adaptation. MacDonald cut two numbers from the show during her first two sessions. Her first was on October 23, 1911, which produced "Two Little Love Bees" (Victor 60060), sung with Reinald Werrenrath.
On the day of that session, English comic Tom McNaughton, also a cast member of The Spring Maid, recorded from the show "The Three Trees" (Victor 5866, reissued as 17222). Matrix numbers indicate he recorded his monologue after MacDonald was finished.
She returned four days later to record a second time "Day Dreams, Visions of Bliss" (Victor 60061, reissued in 1920 on 45189), with the Lyric Quartet. She had sung it during her first session but that take was rejected.
She returned to Victor for two final sessions a year and a half later, on April 22 and 25, 1913. Since March 13, 1913, she had starred as Sylvia in a highly successful Victor Herbert light opera, Sweethearts (it opened in Baltimore and made its New York debut on September 8, 1913).
Numbers from the show that she recorded are "The Angelus" (with Werrenrath and the Victor Male Chorus, Victor 70099, reissued in 1921 on 55113), "The Cricket On The Hearth" (with Werrenrath, Victor 60102, reissued in 1920 on 45189), and "Sweethearts" (Victor 60101).
Victor catalogs state, "Her clear and sweet voice is perfectly recorded, and these reproductions will delight those who will not have an opportunity to hear her in person; while the fortunate ones who have seen these operas [The Spring Maid and Sweethearts] will find in the records a delightful souvenir of a pleasant evening."
Her first husband was William Winter Jefferson, son of stage star Joseph Jefferson. The 1918 edition of the International Who's Who in Music states that she married Henry Lloyd Gillespie in 1912.
The singer died on July 25, 1962.