Feb 20, 2022
In which we discuss the changes happening in Canada's music scene at the end of the 19th century, before going over the country's first international sensation: Emma Albani! You know you've hit it big when Queen Vicky becomes your friend.
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Sources/Further Reading:
- Albani, Emma. “Angels ever bright and fair,” (comp. by G. F. Handel) London, England, Gramophone & Typewriter Company, Ltd., 29 Dec. 1903 https://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/m2/f7/16815.mp3
- Chitty, Alexis, and Gilles Potvin. "Albani, Dame Emma." The Grove Book of Opera Singers, Oxford University Press, 2009. https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195337655.001.0001/acref-9780195337655-e-21.
- 1892 photo of Emma Albani, https://jstor.org/stable/10.2307/community.18296334. Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania: Furness, P/Al100.1 M, Medium Box.
- Kallmann, Helmut. "Music History". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 4 March 2015, Historica Canada. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/music-history.
- Labrèche-Larouche, Michelle. Emma Albani: Victorian Diva, Dundurn Press, 2001.
- Vogan, Nancy F. “Music Publishing,” The History of the Book in Canada, edited by Yvan Lamonde, et al., University of Toronto Press, 2005, pp. 435-440.