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Show H RECORDS FOR! YOUR TALKING UE ' Private Percy Grainger, Fifteenth Coast artillery, U. S. A.f is not compelled com-pelled to spend all his time playing the oboe as an army bandsman. Private Pri-vate Grainger has been giving concerts con-certs for the American Red Cross, and he has played Liszt's Second Hungarian Hungar-ian Rhapsody as a new Columbia record. rec-ord. The forceful Grainger personality personal-ity gives the famous number even more fire and dash than are ordinarily found In it, and there must be something some-thing much out of the ordinary in the young pianist's touch, for the reproduction repro-duction of the tones of the piano is the sound of' the Instrument itself something long attempted in piano records, and seldom fully attained. That fiery song of enraged defiance, "Tremble. Ye Tyrants." from Verdi's "II Trovatore," has been sung by La-zaro La-zaro for Columbia, and appears in the January group. Lazaro's ringing tones are heard to fine advantage in this powerful number, and he takes two high C's with an ease that adds not a little to their thrill. Unique in dance music are the violin vio-lin and piano duets made for Columbia Colum-bia by the Jockers brothers. Theirjat-est Theirjat-est record cdntalns "The Sun Shine Brighter" and "Just You Watch My Step," both by Jerome Kern, the former for-mer a fox trot and the latter a one-stop. one-stop. Several numbers from the musical musi-cal comedy success "Leave It to Jane" are introduced, among them "The Crickets' are Calling." Leave It To Jane" and "I'm Going to Find a Girl." The beautiful "Caro Nome" from "Rigoletto" appears in the Columbia list for January, sung by Maria Bar-rlentos. Bar-rlentos. The voice of the great Metropolitan Metro-politan soprana fully compasses every requirement of the great aria, and hor rendition is a masterpiece not only of technique but of emotional intensity. Margaret Wilson's sweet soprano voice is heard in two numbers, just made for Columbia "My Laddies" and "My Old Kentucky Home." The president's daughter is noted for her expression and interpretative prwer which mark her singing, and these qualities are pleasingly in evidence in both these simple songs. "Give Me the Moonlight, Give Me the Girl, and Leave tho Rest to Me," sings Samuel Ash, in his newest Columbia Co-lumbia numbor Von Tllzer wrote the song, which is full of both sentiment and melody, nnd Ash's tenor voice does full justice to it. The record also contains "Give Me the Right to Love You All the While," sung by the Sterling Sterl-ing Trio. Brahm's "Lullaby" and Andre's "Alpine "Al-pine Violets" are played for Columbia's Colum-bia's January group by a violin, flute and harp trio. There Is a rare sweetness sweet-ness and charm in the music produced pro-duced by this combination of instruments, instru-ments, and these two selections lend themselves particularly well to its influence. in-fluence. Two melodious songs of old Ireland are contributed to the newest list of Columbia records by the Stellar Quartette. Quar-tette. One of them is O'Hara's tender love lament "All Erin is Calling Ma-vourneen," Ma-vourneen," and the other Trotcre's "Asthore." Both are characterized by artlslc modulations, rich harmonies and fine full-toned climaxes. The day's popular songs are well represented in the Columbia dance record rec-ord which appears among the January offorings, bearing on one side "o Long, Mother," and on the other "The Bravest Heart of All " The former, a one-step, includes "Down South Eevry-body's Eevry-body's Happy," "My Rose of Waiki-ki" Waiki-ki" and "So Long, Sammy." In the latter, a medley fox-trot, are interpolated interpo-lated "My Mother's Eyes," "Throw Me a Kiss" and "Our Little Mountain Home in Switzerland." Girl tenors are rare. One of the few who have attained prominence through real musical ability is Ruby Holder. Her voice is a true tenor of excellent quality and timbre, and she uses It artistically in her latest selections selec-tions for Columbia, the "Borcouse" from "Jocclyn" and Buttcrflald'a charming "When You and I Were Young Maggie." |