9 Royalty-Free Audio Tracks for "1939 Works"

Hail! Holyoke High School!, school song by Fred Grady, dedicated to longtime principal Dr. Howard Conant; lyrics included in sheet music

Jaroslav Jezek was born in Prague 1906 and studied at the Prague Conservatory, graduating in 1927. He studied music during the period of the new freedom with its' influence of American jazz and dance on Czech composers which can certainly be seen in Jezek's works. From '28-38, Jezek composed music for 20 plays and revues performed at the Liberated Theater where absurdities of the times-moral hypocrisy, the mistakes of democracies and the inanities of totalitarianism-especially of the Nazis, were humorously skewered. He composed waltzes, tangos, charlestons, rhumbas, and jazz for his admiring Czech audiences. During WWII he moved to New York, possibly because his past criticisms of the Nazi Party would have landed him in prison. He continued to compose there in 1939-41. He died in New York in 1942. The Bugatti Step was written to commemorate Czech racing car driver Eliska Junkova's 2nd place finish in a Swiss mountain race in '27 in her huge Bugatti touring car, seen at 2:08 in this vid. Thanks to former yt contributor KSPM who originally uploaded this music and introduced me to Jezek.

Label: Disque "Gramophone" Cat. no.: DB 3703 Order number: 2EA 7144 Matrix/StamperID: 2EA 7144I / M6-97965 1st release date: 1939 1st recording date: 23 November 1938 Place of recording: EMI Studio No. 3, Abbey Road, London (United Kingdom) Author(s)/Composer(s): Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) Music arranger(s): Johann Sebastian Bach (previously attributed to Wilhelm Friedemann Bach)[1] Performer(s): Piano: Alexander Brailowsky (1896-1976) Vocal range: instrumental Title/Work: Concerto in D minor (original work: Concerto in D minor from L'Estro Armonico, Op. 3 No. 11) (published 1711) Content: Part 1: Maestoso Genre(s): Organ work (concerto) Comments: RCM and ELP

1st release date: January 1939 1st recording date: 3/4 November 1938 Performers: Kathleen Long and the Boyd Neel Orchestra; Leader: Frederick Grinke (1911-1987) and on the piano: Kathleen Long (1896-1968) Work: Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, K. 503 Content: 1st Movement: Allegro maestoso

Work: Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, K. 503 1st release date: January 1939 1st recording date: 3/4 November 1938 Performers: Kathleen Long and the Boyd Neel Orchestra; Leader: Frederick Grinke (1911-1987) and on the piano: Kathleen Long (1896-1968) Content: 1st Movement: Allegro maestoso (Conclusion)

1st release date: January 1939 1st recording date: 3/4 November 1938 Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Performers: Kathleen Long and the Boyd Neel Orchestra; Leader: Frederick Grinke (1911-1987) and on the piano: Kathleen Long (1896-1968) Work: Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, K. 503 Content: 2nd Movement: Andante

Title/Work: Cavalleria Rusticana Content: Intermezzo Genre(s): Opera terminology Author(s)/(Composer(s): Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945) Music arranger(s): none Lyricist(s): Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti (1712-1783) and Guido Menasci (1867-1925) (adapted from a play written by Giovanni Verga (1840-1922)) Performer(s): Victor Orchestra Conductor: Walter B. Rogers (1865-1939) Place of recording: Camden, New Jersey (United States) 1st release date: February 1905 1st recording date: 7 November 1904 (B-4050: 18 June 1908)

Title/Work: Il barbiere di Siviglia Content: Atto 1-Sc 02/03-Recitativo: Ah, ah! che bella vita! (Figaro) Genre(s): Operas Author(s)/Composer(s): Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) Music arranger(s): none Lyricist(s): none Performer(s): La Scala Theatre Orchestra Conductor: Lorenzo Molajoli (1868-1939) Place of recording: unknown 1st release date: 1929 1st recording date: 8 July 1929

Title/Work: Madama Butterfly Content: No.13: Perchè con tante cure Genre(s): Opera Author(s)/(Composer(s): Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) Music arranger(s): none Lyricist(s): Luigi Illica (1857–1919) and Giuseppe Giacosa (1847-1906) based in part on the short story "Madame Butterfly" (1898) by John Luther Long (1861-1927), which was dramatized by David Belasco (1853-1931) Performer(s): Professori d'Orchestra e l'intero Corpo Corale della "Scala di Milano", Rosetta Pampanini (Soprano), Conchita Velasquez (Mezzosoprano), Ferrari Cesira (Soprano), Alessandro Grando (Tenore), Gino Vanelli (Baritone), Giuseppe Nessi (Tenore), Aristide Baracchi (Tenore), Salvatore Baccaloni (Basso) and Lino Bonardi (Baritone) Conductor: Lorenzo Molajoli (1868-1939) Place of recording: London (United Kingdom) 1st release date: 1929 1st recording date: 25 April - 11 May 1929