The Gilbert and Sullivan Newsletter ArchiveGILBERTIAN GOSSIPNo 12 — January 1979 Edited by Michael Walters
ELLEN BEACH YAW RECORDING Normally advertisements are not the function of GG, but Antonio Altamirano has asked that the following note be inserted, and the Editor is happy to oblige: ELLEN BEACH YAW 1869-1948, the American coloratura soprano, who is credited with the highest notes in musical history, who created the Sultana in Sullivan's Rose of Persia is now on a cassette. Some of her very rare KeenoPhone and unpublished Edison and Victor recordings are on the cassette which is narrated by her pupil the noted tenor Antonio Altamirano. The cassette may be ordered direct from the Merritt Sound Recording, 223 Grimsby Road, Buffalo, N.Y. 14223, U.S.A. for 6 dollars 50 cents. [This was in 1978; the price is obviously now obsolete, even if the cassette is still available. Ed. June 2000.]
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