Record

Performance TitlePathephone Grand Concert
Performance Date24 January 1908
Performance DayFriday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersThe following artists appeared in person:
Miss Evangeline Florence,
Mr Charles Tree,
Mr Robert Burnett - vocals

The following artists were played on the Pathephone:
Curuso,
Madame Abani,
Kirkby Lunn,
Ada Crossley,
Ancona,
Ben Davies and more.
Orchestra or BandThe Full Band of HM Scots Guards
ChoirsThe Westminster Singers
ConductorsMr Frederick W Wood
Set ListIncluded:
Pathephone - 'Honour and Arms', Handel (Burnett),
Live in person - 'Honour and Arms', Handel (Burnett)
Performance NotesTickets were complimentary for this event.

"At the Royal Albert Hall last night a large audience lent willing ears to strains resulting from a number of records taken of popular singers by the 'Pathephone', an invention which, to quote a note in the programme, 'aims at being a musical instrument in the home, and not only what is generally known as a 'talking machine'.'"
(The Daily Telegraph, 25 January 1908)

According to the newspaper a box had been reserved for some of the Chelsea Pensioners and a collections was raised for the Veterans' Relief Fund.
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work8772Pathephone Grand Concert1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/4215Florence; Evangeline (1873-1928); American-born British singer soprano
DS/UK/2071Tree; Charles (fl 1914-1921); English singer
DS/UK/3912Burnett; Robert (fl 1920s); British singer
DS/UK/2231The Westminster Singers; fl 1907-1922; English choir
DS/UK/2392British Army; The Band of HM Scots Guards; 1642-; British Army division
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