HORACE BRITT: cellist. Vitaphone disc June 1927. скачать в хорошем качестве

HORACE BRITT: cellist. Vitaphone disc June 1927.

FIRST AMERICAN 'TALKIE' OF A CELLO PERFORMANCE: HORACE BRITT b. 18 June 1881, Antwerp; d. 3 February 1971, Austin, Texas. The cellist began his studies at the Paris Conservatory in 1892 and graduated in 1895. Both he and Barrere later played in the Colonne Orchestra, and Britt went on to become a member of the Lamoureaux Orchestra. Britt made his American debut in 1907 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, after an active career in Europe and extensive tours of England, China, and Japan. Apparently as interested in chamber music as Barrere was, Britt was at various times a member of the Elman String Quartet, the Letz Quartet, the London String Quartet, and the San Francisco Chamber Music Society. In addition to performing with Barrere and Salzedo, he assisted Barrere in forming two more chamber ensembles, the Barrere-Britt Concertino (1937), and the Barrere Trio (circa 1941). Britt later moved to Texas and became 'cello instructor at the University of Texas at Austin from 1948 to 1965. He recorded electrically as a soloist for Columbia, and as a member of the Elman Quartet in their electrical recordings for Victor (R. Nagel was the 'cellist on the acousticals), and was also featured, with pianist Ruth Connist, in this Vitaphone short subject released in August, 1927. The synchronous sound disc for the film turned up in the collection of the late Fred Ruckert in Brisbane, Australia, where I dubbed it to digital in May 2001. The only earlier cello performance on a sound film, of which I'm aware, was a British DeForest Phonofilm of Gwen Farrar with pianist Billy Mayerl in December 1926.