Victor Herbert - The Biography of Americas Greatest Composer of Romantic Music
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VICTOR HERBERT Victor Herbert in His Studio. Note the high desk at which he wrote. ILLUSTRATIONS Victor Herbert in his studio. Note the high desk at which he wrote Frontispiece FACING PAGE Herbert as a concert cellist 24 Herbert at school in Germany 24 Caricature of Victor Herbert by Boardman Robinson . 25 Mrs. Victor Herbert a few years after her arrival in New York 40 Victor Herbert, Mrs. Herbert and their children, Ella and Cliff ord, at Camp Joyland, Lake Placid . , 41 Victor Herbert as leader of Gilmores Band ... 88 Victor Herbert, in his cello virtuoso days, witri a group of friends. Louis Schmidt is at the extreme right . 89 Anton Seidl with Mrs. Seidl 104 A snapshot of Victor Herbert in the Adirondacks. His arm is around his son Clifford ...... 105 Alice Nielsen in The Fortune Teller .... 136 Alice Nielsen in a scene from The Singing Girl , 136 Emma Trentini and Orville Harrold in a scene from Naughty Marietta 137 Fritzi Scheff in Mile. Modiste 152 Mary Garden in Louise 153 Rehearsing Madeleine at the Metropolitan. Victor Herbert and Frances Alda are seated . . . . 184 Archie Gunns conception of Victor Herbert . . . 185 Page from the manuscript of A Suite of Serenades, Victor Herberts contribution to Paul Whitemans concert of symphonic jazz 200 Autographed title page of Herberts Suite Roman tique. The quotation is the love theme from Hero and Leander 201 VICTOR HERBERT VICTOR HERBERT ONE autumn night in the eighties a young Irishman of twenty-seven, who had passed most of his life in Germany, took his place in the orchestra pit of the Metropolitan Opera House to play the cello. His name was Victor Herbert. He had just arrived in New York, and from his obscure seat he looked around curiously at the mass of faces glowing weirdly in the vast, dim auditorium. He felt a symbolic force in the crowding immensity of the place, in the numerous dazzling points of light that leaped back from the precious stones on the hands and breasts of the women who sat in the two g
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