Description: Shipping: All items will be packed safely in a sturdy package for safe shipping.We ship internationally and offer combined shipping for multiple purchases. Expedited, Priority Mail and FedEx shipping available Once payment is received, we ship your item on the next business day.INTERNATIONAL BUYERS: Pls check the shipping tab. Ebay does not display cheapest shipping on top of the listing. Over 1000 Records available. If you plan to buy several records: Click the "ADD TO CART" button. Once you have selected all the records you want, go to Cart and check out. COMBINED SHIPPING will be applied automatically. If shipping seems high: In Cart click REQUEST TOTAL, and I will send you an invoice. A series of great Opera records from early 1903 Russian G&Ts to 1940 German War time pressings Click this link for more great Opera and Vocal Records in my other listings!ALEXANDER KIPNIS Comic song LITTLE JACK HORNER with apologies to Handel / Ah! Willow Engl Tune Ernst Victor Wolff piano Alexander Kipnis - one of the greatest basses sings a party piece! Kipnis did indeed sing this bit of whimsy and it was released by RCA in 1940 with the cat. No. Victor 2135 and the title "Little Jack Horner".The lyrics are the "modern" version of the nursery rhyme of the same name which was first published in 1725 but is claimed (as many rhymes are) to be a satirical attack on various regal, political, and religious figures dating back as far as the dissolution of the monasteries.The music was arranged by J. Michel Diack "with apologies to Handel", and the accompanist is Ernst Victor Wolff.FlipsideAh! WillowOld English Tune H. Lane WilsonVictor (2135-B) Orig Issue Pre War Gold Label Victor 10" 78 rpm record Condition: Better than EXCELLENT PRISTINE, plays EXCEPTIONALLY quiet A CHOICE COPY Alexander Kipnis (Ukrainian: ????????? ??????) born (February 13, (February 1 Julian calendar) 1891 in Zhitomir, the capital of the government of Volhynia, in the Russian Empire, (now Ukraine) – died May 14, 1978 in Westport, Connecticut), was an operatic bass who became an American citizen in 1931, having married an American and long appeared at the Chicago Opera before making his début at the Metropolitan Opera in 1940. His impoverished family of seven lived in a Jewish ghetto. After his father died, when he was 12, he helped support the family as a carpenter's apprentice and by singing soprano in local synagogues and in Bessarabia (now Moldova) until his voice changed. As a teenager he took part in a Yiddish theatrical group, until he left for employment at a synagogue in Sedlice, Poland. About this time he entered the Warsaw Conservatory at 19. The conservatory did not require a high-school diploma. His education included the study of the trombone, double bass and conducting all the while he continued to sing in synagogues. On the recommendation of the Choirmaster he traveled to Berlin and studied voice with Ernst Grenzebach who was also the teacher of Lauritz Melchior, Meta Seinemeyer, and Max Lorenz, at the same time he sang second bass in Monti's Operetta Theater. When the First World War started he was interned as an alien in a German holding camp. While singing to himself he was overheard by a Captain whose brother was general manager of the Wiesbaden Opera. Upon his recommendation he was released and hired by the Hamburg Opera where in two years he was to gain enough experience to be hired by Wiesbaden. It was in Hamburg he made his 1915 debut singing three Johann Strauss songs as a "guest" in the party scene of Die Fledermaus. Two years later in 1917 he moved to the Wiesbaden Opera where sang in over 300 performances until 1922, when he joined the Staatsoper in Berlin. The next year he toured the United States with the Wagner Opera Co. For 9 seasons between 1923 and 1932 he was on the roster of the Civic Opera of Chicago. In 1927, at the Bayreuth Festival, he sang Gurnemanz in Parsifal under Karl Muck and recorded the Good Friday music under Siegfried Wagner. (A purported live performance recording in 1933 under Richard Strauss has been generally discounted.). He was under contract with the Berlin Opera until 1935, when he was able to break his contract and get out of Germany. He appeared for three seasons as a guest performer with the Vienna State Opera, 1936-1938. Just after the Anschluss he left Europe and settled permanently in the United States. By the time he was finally signed by the Metropolitan in 1940 he had sung in virtually every major opera house in the world and was considered one of the world's greatest basses. He sang with almost all of the great conductors, Ansermet, Barbirolli, Beecham, Blech, Busch, Coates, Elmendorff, Furtwängler, Heger, Karajan, Krips, Kleiber, Klemperer, Knappertsbusch, Koussevitsky, Leinsdorf, Mengelberg, Mitropoulos, Monteux, Muck, Nikisch, Ormandy, Pfitzner, Reiner, Rodzinski, Rosbaud, Scherchen, Richard Strauss, Szell, Toscanini, Walter and Weingartner. (And there may be some famous Italians in there as well, from his many highly successful appearances at the Teatro Colón, in Buenos Aires.) Between 1915 and 1951 he sang at least 108 roles, often in more than one language and his performances in opera and oratorio numbered more than 1600. He retired from the Metropolitan in 1946 and his last concert appearance was in 1951. His many recordings of Lieder by Brahms, Wolf and Schubert are still highly prized today. His most famous roles were the bass parts in operas by Mozart, Wagner, and the title role in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov. In Germany he was also a famous Verdi interpreter. He was also a distinguished interpreter of German and Russian lieder (songs). More Great Records on sale right now: CLICK ON THIS LINK TO SEE MORE GREAT RECORDS CLICK ON THIS LINK TO SEE ALL ITEMS - VINTAGE BOOKS, VICTROLA and TURNTABLE ITEMS, CDs, Books and DVDs http://shop.ebay.com/carsten_sf/m.html ==== A Quick NOTE ON GRADING AND SHIPPING: As you can see from my feedback, I try hard to earn your POSITIVE FEEDBACK and FIVE STAR RATINGS. If for any reason your transaction was NOT SATISFACTORY, pls contact me and I will work something out with you. YOU WILL NEVER HAVE A REASON TO GIVE ME A NEGATIVE RATING or a LOW STAR RATING. 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Price: 14.99 USD
Location: San Francisco, California
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Artist: CLICK RIGHT ARROW > FOR CONDITION, ALEXANDER KIPNIS, Ernst Victor Wolff
Format: Record
Material: Shellac
Genre: World Music
Record Label: RCA Victor
Record Size: 10"
Style: Ballet, Brass, Chanson, Christian, Comedy/Novelty Music, Film Score/Soundtrack, Germany & Austria, Greece, Gregorian Chant, Gypsy, Gypsy Jazz, Islamic, Jazz Instrument, Jewish, Mass, Middle East & Islamic, Music Hall, National Anthem/Patriotic, Polka, Schlager, Speech, Traditional/Vocal, Vocal, Waltz, Cabaret/Vaudeville, Christmas, Eastern Europe & Russia, Jewish & Yiddish, Opera, Political/Conscious
Speed: 78 RPM
Release Title: Little Jack Horner/ Ah! Willow Old English Tune
Language: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Hebrew, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Yiddish
Catalog Number: 2135
