1929 RUDOLF FRIML plays PIANO ROSE MARIE Vagabond King Firefly Nat Shilkret 78

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Rudolf Friml, the Czech composer who would develop the American operetta into the Broadway musical

Friml on the Piano

Improvisation - Amour Coquet/  La danse des demoiselles - Mignonette / Lou Raderman ; Nathaniel Shilkret ; Victor Salon Orchestra

The MUSIC OF RUDOLF FRIML. Played by Nat Shilkret and the Victor Salon Group and Victor Salon Orchestra on five twelve-inch Victor Records in Album C-9 (Nos. 9649-9653). List Price, $7.50. Rudolf Friml has kept us busy humming and whistling his melodies ever since he came here from his native Bohemia some twenty years ago. First he set the country sing- ing his "Symparhy" in "The Firefly," and soon after started the nation's ears a "tingle - ingling" with his "High Jinks." He has continued pouring forth a seemingly inexhaus- tible supply of melody and rhythm in "Katinka," "You're in Love," "Rose-Marie," "The Vagabond King," and "The Three Musketeers." The records in this album are from these operettas and include those memorable tunes that are perennial delights . . . some of them sung in the original vocal form, others in instrumental arrangements. The voices are excellent, the orchestra, Nat Shilkret's, at its best , , . no other commendation is necessary. As an added attraction, the composer, who is also a brilliant concert pianist, plays two of his own piano compositions.

Lewis James L Amour Toujours L Amour - Ma Belle/ Orch Chanson - Veil Dance

Selections from You're in Love/ from High Jinks

Selections from Rose Marie/Katinka

Selections from The Vagabond King/ The Firefly

Selections of some of his top hit productions, arranged and performed by the inestimable Nat Shilkret and the Victor Salon Orch with their top studio talent, including

Victor Salon Group (Musical group) 

Nathaniel Shilkret (director) 
Della Baker (vocalist : soprano vocal) 
Emily Stokes Hagar (vocalist : soprano vocal) 
Lucy Isabelle Marsh (vocalist : soprano vocal) Solo, "Giannina mia."
Gladys Rice (vocalist : soprano vocal) 
Ruth Rodgers (vocalist : soprano vocal) 
Elsie Baker (vocalist : contralto) 
Rose Bryant (vocalist : contralto) 
Helen Clark (vocalist : soprano vocal) 
Charles Harrison (vocalist : tenor vocal) 
Lewis James (vocalist : tenor vocal) 
James Melton (vocalist : tenor vocal) 
Lambert Murphy (vocalist : tenor vocal) 
Elliott Shaw (vocalist : baritone vocal) 
Frank Croxton (vocalist : bass vocal) 
Wilfred Glenn (vocalist : bass vocal) 
Stanley Baughman (vocalist : baritone vocal) 
Nat Shilkret's Salon Symphony Orchestra (Musical group)

on 5x 12" Original Scroll records 78 rpm records with original album C9  with embossed sleeves

Condition: Records are in Excellent condition but VERY DIRTY. Album is close to new

Rudolf Friml (December 7, 1879 – November 12, 1972) was a composer of operettas, musicals, songs and piano pieces, as well as a pianist. After musical training and a brief performing career in his native Prague, Friml moved to the United States, where he became a composer. His best-known works are Rose Marie and The Vagabond King, each of which enjoyed success on Broadway and in London and were adapted for film.

[edit] Early lifeBorn in Prague, at that time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and now capital of the Czech Republic, Friml showed aptitude for music at an early age. He entered the Prague Conservatory in 1895, where he studied the piano and composition with Antonín Dvo?ák.[1] Friml was expelled from the conservatory in 1901 for performing without permission.[2] In Prague and later in America he composed and published songs, piano pieces and other music, including the prize-winning set of songs, Pisne Zavisovy. The last of these, Za tichych noci, later became the basis for a famous film in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia in 1941.

After the conservatory, Friml took a position as accompanist to the violinist Jan Kubelík. He toured with Kubelik twice in the United States (1901–02 and 1904) and moved there permanently in 1906, apparently with the support of the Czech singer Emmy Destinn. His first post in New York was as a repetiteur at the Metropolitan Opera. He had made his American piano debut at Carnegie Hall in 1904, and premiered his Piano Concerto in B-Major in 1906 with the New York Philharmonic under the baton of Walter Damrosch. He settled for a brief time in Los Angeles where he married Mathilda Baruch (1909). They had two children, Charles Rudolf (Jr.) (1910) and Marie Lucille (1911). His second marriage was to Blanch Betters, an actress who had appeared in the chorus of Friml's musical Katinka; his third was to actress Elsie Lawson (who played the maid in Friml's Glorianna, and by whom he had a son William); and his fourth and final marriage was to Kay Wong Ling. The first three marriages ended in divorce.[3]

[edit] The Firefly and early operettasOne of the most popular theatrical forms in the early decades of the 20th century in America was the operetta, and its most famous composer was Irish-born Victor Herbert. It was announced in 1912 that operetta diva Emma Trentini would be starring in a new operetta on Broadway by Herbert with lyricist Otto Harbach entitled The Firefly. Shortly before the writing of the operetta, Trentini appeared in a special performance of Herbert's Naughty Marietta conducted by Herbert himself. When Trentini refused to sing "Italian Street Song" for the encore, an enraged Herbert stormed out of the orchestra pit refusing any further work with Trentini.

Arthur Hammerstein, the operetta's sponsor, frantically began to search for another composer. Not finding any other theatre composer who could compose as well as Herbert, Hammerstein settled on the almost unknown Friml because of his classical training. After a month of work, Friml produced the score for what would be his first theatrical success.[4] After tryouts in Syracuse, New York, The Firefly opened at the Lyric Theatre on December 2, 1912 to a warm reception by both the audience and the critics. The production moved to the Casino Theatre after Christmas, where it ran until March 15, 1913, for a total of 120 performances. After The Firefly, Friml produced three more operettas that were successful, with longer runs than The Firefly, although they are not as enduringly successful.[5] These were High Jinks (1913), Katinka (1915) and You're in Love (1917). He also contributed songs to a musical in 1915 entitled The Peasant Girl.

Trentini was named as a co-respondent in Friml's divorce from his first wife in 1915, and evidence was introduced that they were having an affair.[6]

[edit] Friml's greatest successesFriml wrote his most famous operettas in the 1920s. In 1924, he wrote Rose Marie. This operetta, on which Friml collaborated with lyricists Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach and co-composer Herbert Stothart, was a hit worldwide and a few of the songs from it also became hits including "The Mounties" and "Indian Love Call". The use of murder as part of the plot was ground-breaking among operettas and musical theatre pieces at the time.

After Rose Marie's success came two other operettas, The Vagabond King in 1925, with lyrics by Brian Hooker and W.H. Post, and The Three Musketeers in 1928, with lyrics by P.G. Wodehouse and Clifford Grey, based on Dumas's famous swashbuckling novel. In addition, Friml contributed to Florenz Ziegfeld's Follies of 1921 and 1923.

Friml also wrote music for many films during the 1930s, often songs adapted from previous work. The Vagabond King, Rose Marie, and The Firefly were all made into films and included at least some of Friml's music. Oddly enough, his operetta version of The Three Musketeers was never filmed, despite the fact that the novel itself has been filmed many times - once as a musical with Don Ameche and The Ritz Brothers. Like his contemporary, Ivor Novello, Friml was sometimes ridiculed for the sentimental and insubstantial nature of his compositions and was often dubbed as trite. Friml was also criticized for the old-fashioned, Old World sentiments found in his works. By the end of the 1930s, Friml had fallen out of fashion.

[edit] Later years and legacyFriml's last stage musical was Music Hath Charms in 1934. He composed the music for the 1947 film Northwest Outpost, starring Nelson Eddy and Ilona Massey.[7] A few of Friml's works have seen revivals on Broadway, these include a 1943 production of The Vagabond King and a 1984 production of The Three Musketeers. "The Donkey Serenade" from the film version of The Firefly, "The Mounties" and "Indian Love Call" are still frequently heard, often in romantic parody or comic situations. His piano music is also often performed.

In a November 1939 issue of Time magazine, Friml claimed that Victor Herbert communicated to him through a Ouija board. He said that Herbert told him, "Play five notes." After he played them he said Herbert responded, "Quite charming."[8] In 1967, Friml performed in a special concert at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco. He began the concert with a piano improvisation, then played special arrangements of his own compositions as well as composers who had influenced him. He even played Dvo?ák's Humoresque as a special tribute to his teacher. He also appeared on Lawrence Welk's television program.[citation needed]

His two sons also worked as musicians. Rudolf Jr. was a big band leader in the 1930s and 40s, and William, a son from Friml's third marriage, was a composer and arranger in Hollywood. In 1969, Friml was celebrated by Ogden Nash on the occasion of his 90th birthday in a couplet which ended: "I trust your conclusion and mine are similar: 'Twould be a happier world if it were Frimler." Similarly, satiric songwriter Tom Lehrer made a reference to Friml on his first album, Songs by Tom Lehrer (1953). The song "The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz" includes the lyric, "Your lips were like wine (if you'll pardon the simile) / The music was lovely, and quite Rudolf Friml-y."

Friml died in Los Angeles in 1972 and was interred in the "Court of Honor" at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. On August 18, 2007, a death notice in the San Francisco Chronicle reported that Kay Wong Ling Friml (born March 16, 1913), Friml's last wife, died on August 9, 2007 and would be buried with him in Forest Lawn.

[edit] WorksPisne Zavisovy (1906) and other songs
The Firefly (1912)
High Jinks (1913)[9]
Katinka (1915)
The Peasant Girl (1915) - contributor.
You're in Love (1917)[10]
Kitty Darlin' (1917)
Sometime (1918)
Glorianna (1918)
Tumble In (1919)
June Love (1921)
Ziegfeld Follies of 1921 - contributor
 Cinders (1923)
Ziegfeld Follies of 1923 - contributor
Rose Marie (1924)
The Vagabond King (1925)
Ziegfeld's Revue "No Foolin'" (1926)
The Wild Rose (1926)
White Eagle (1927)
The Three Musketeers (1928)
The Lottery Bride (1930 film)
Luana (1930)
Music Hath Charms (1934)
Northwest Outpost (1947 film)
 

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