Identifier: victrolabookofop00vict (find matches)
Title: The Victrola book of the opera : stories of one hundred and twenty operas with seven-hundred illustrations and descriptions of twelve-hundred Victor opera records
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Victor Talking Machine Company Rous, Samuel Holland
Subjects: Operas
Publisher: Camden, N.J. : Victor Talking Machine Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Paradise! The People (softly to one another) : That is quite different! Who would surmiseThat so much in performance lies? Walter: Evening fell and night closedBy rugged wayMy feet did strayTowards a mountain,Where a fountain mnd; Enslaved me with its sound;And there beneath a laurel tree,With starlight glinting under,In waking vision greeted meA sweet and solemn wonder;She dropped on me the fountains dews.That woman fair—Parnassuss glorious Muse! (With great exaltation): Thrice happy day, To which my poets trance gave place!That Paradise of which I dreamed,In radiance before my face Glorified lay.To point the path the brooklet streamed: She stood beside me, Who shall my bride be,The fairest sight earth ever gave,My Muse, to whom I bow,So angel—sweet and grave.I woo her boldly now,Before the world remaining,By might of music gainingParnassus and Paradise. People (accompanying the close, very softly):I feel as in a lovely dream,Hearing but grasping not the theme!Give him the prize!
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Eva, who has listenedwith rapt attention, now ad-vances to the edge of theplatform and places on thehead of Walter, who kneelson the steps, a wreath ofmyrtle and laurel, thenleads him to her father,before whom they bothkneel. Pogner extends hishands in benediction overthem. Walter and Eva leanagainst Sachs, one on eachside, while Pogner sinkson his knee before himas if in homage. TheMastersingers point toSachs, with outstretchedhands, as to their chief,while the prentices c^aPhands and shout and thepeople wave hats and ker-chiefs in enthusiasm.

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