
Sixty Years of California Song
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Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine (extra customization on request like complete leather, Golden Screen printing in Front, Color Leather, Colored book etc.) Reprinted in 2018 with the help of original edition published long back [1913]. This book is printed in black & white, sewing binding for longer life, printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or m...
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- SIXTY YEARS OF CALIFORNIA SONG
- Margaret Blake-Alverson
- FOREWORD
- THE TEXT
- THE ILLUSTRATIONS
- PORTRAITS OF PUPILS
- CHAPTER ONE
- ANTECEDENTS AND CHILDHOOD
- CHAPTER TWO
- OUR TRIP TO CALIFORNIA VIA THE ISTHMUS, AND EARLY DAYS THERE. FIRST CHURCH CHOIR IN STOCKTON
- CHAPTER THREE
- STOCKTON IN THE FIFTIES. BENICIA SEMINARY. GENESIS OF MILLS COLLEGE. DISTINGUISHED PIONEERS. MARRIAGE
- CHAPTER FOUR
- HOW I MADE THE FIRST BEAR FLAG IN CALIFORNIA
- CHAPTER FIVE
- BOSTON. DEDHAM CHOIR, 1858. THE CIVIL WAR. FAMOUS MUSICIANS. RETURN TO CALIFORNIA. SANTA CRUZ.
- CHAPTER SIX
- SANTA CRUZ IN THE SIXTIES. WHY I BECAME A DRESSMAKER. OPERA. MUSIC IN SAN FRANCISCO IN THE SEVENTIES
- CHAPTER SEVEN
- LADY OF LYONS GIVEN AT SANTA CRUZ. FLAG-RAISING AT GILROY HOT SPRINGS. VISALIA CONCERTS
- GILROY HOT SPRINGS FLAG RAISING, JULY 18, 1872.
- VISALIA CONCERTS.
- CHAPTER EIGHT
- ON THE ROAD WITH DICK KOHLER, MR. VIVIAN, WALTER CAMPBELL, MR. WAND AND CHARLES ATKINS
- CHAPTER NINE
- EARLY MUSIC AND MUSIC HOUSES. MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MAKERS. OLD-TIME SINGERS
- CHAPTER TEN
- AS A CHURCH CHOIR SINGER. BARNABEE, ZERRAHN, PATTI, JENNY LIND, JOE MAGUIRE, SAM MAYER, HARRY GATES
- CHAPTER ELEVEN
- GOLDEN JUBILEE OF SONG SERVICE, JUNE 12, 1896
- CHAPTER TWELVE
- CAMILLA URSO'S FESTIVAL, 1873. MADAME ANNA BISHOP. THE LORING CLUB. ALFRED WILKIE, FRANK GILDER, D.P. HUGHES
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN
- ROMAN CATHOLIC, EPISCOPAL, AND JEWISH MUSIC. J.H. DOHRMANN. THE BIANCHI'S
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN
- GREAT MUSICAL FESTIVAL IN AID OF THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY, 1878. AT GILROY SPRINGS.
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN
- AUTHORS' CARNIVAL, 1880, PRESIDENT HAYES AND GENERAL SHERMAN PRESENT
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN
- VACATION EPISODES AT DEER PARK, JULY 4, 1893
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
- IN OAKLAND. SAD ACCIDENT. BRUSH AND EASEL. KIND FRIENDS.
- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
- PARTY AT DR. J.M. SHANNON'S HOME IN 1907
- CHAPTER NINETEEN
- LEE TUNG FOO
- CHAPTER TWENTY
- WHAT I KNOW OF THE VOICE AND OF TEACHING
- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
- TREMOLO
- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
- MORE ABOUT THE VOICE
- CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
- POLITICAL CAMPAIGNING. WORK AS A PATRIOT. GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC. FLAG-RAISING AT MONTEREY
- CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
- REPERTOIRE AND OTHER DATA. MUSICIANS AND SINGERS OF THE LAST CENTURY
- HALLS AND THEATERS WHERE I HAVE SUNG
- CHURCHES WHERE I HAVE SUNG
- ORATORIOS AND CANTATAS I HAVE SUNG IN BOSTON, SAN FRANCISCO, SACRAMENTO, STOCKTON, OAKLAND, SAN BERNARDINO AND SANTA CRUZ
- MASSES I HAVE SUNG IN THE DIFFERENT CATHOLIC CHURCHES IN CALIFORNIA
- MASSES SUNG IN 1869
- MASSES SUNG AT ST. PATRICK'S CHURCH, MISSION STREET, 1870
- SOLEMN HIGH MASS FOR POPE PIUS IX, 1880
- MASSES SUNG IN ST. PATRICK'S CHURCH, 1873 AND 1875
- MASSES SUNG IN ST. MARY'S CHURCH
- MASS SUNG IN ST. IGNATIUS CHURCH
- MASS SUNG IN THE FRENCH CHURCH
- MASSES SUNG IN 1874
- GRAND HIGH MASS AT ST. PATRICK'S CHURCH, 1881
- 1888
- 1889
- EARLY MUSICIANS OF CALIFORNIA
- FIRST CHOIR OF SINGERS, 1852
- 1853
- EMINENT SINGERS, 1854
- MUSICIANS WHO CAME LATER IN THE FIFTIES
- WOMEN PIANISTS
- WOMEN SINGERS OF EARLY YEARS, 60'S AND 70'S
- 1896
- MEN SINGERS IN EARLY DAYS
- CALIFORNIA COMPOSERS
- CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
- EARLY CALIFORNIA REMINISCENCES OF MUSICIANS AND SINGERS
- RUDOLPH HEROLD
- J.H. DOHRMANN
- RICHARD CONDY
- FREDERICK KRAUS
- SARAH P. WATKINS-LITTLE
- WALTER CHAUNCY CAMPBELL
- FREDERICK ZECH, JR.
- HENRY HEYMAN
- MRS. LOUISA MARRINER-CAMPBELL
- SAMUEL D. MAYER
- MRS. J.M. PIERCE
- CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
- REMINISCENCES OF LATER CALIFORNIA MUSICIANS AND SINGERS
- JOSEPH MAGUIRE
- MR. AND MRS. STEPHEN W. LEACH
- PROF. FREDERICK KATZENBACH
- RICHARD THOMAS YARNDLEY
- WILLIAM M'FARLAND GREER
- MARY CHENEY-CLARK
- CHAS. H. SCHULTZ
- OTTO BLANKART
- MRS. THERESA BLANKART
- M. AUGUSTA LOWELL-GARTHWAITE
- SANTIAGO ARRILLAGA Y ANSOLA
- MISS CARRIE HEINEMANN
- HENRY S. STEDMAN
- THE HINRICHS FAMILY
- H.B. PASMORE
- WALLACE A. SABIN, F.R.C.O., F.A.G.O.
- JOHN W. METCALF
- GEORGE LINCOLN BLAKE
- PROF. HUGO MANSFELDT
- A.W. KLOSE.
- SAN FRANCISCO'S CELEBRATED FRENCH HORN QUARTETTE GEO. FLETCHER, WM. E. BLAKE, NATHANIEL PAGE, GEORGE STOREY
- PROF. MAURO SOLANO
- CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
- WITH MY PUPILS
- WILLIAM H. KEITH
- MADAM TREGAR
- THE JORAN QUARTET
- WM. P. MELVIN
- ROSE CHAMPION
- LORINA ALLEN KIMBALL
- PAULINE PETERSON
- BERTHA GRACE HUNTER
- GEORGE G. PETERSON
- CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
- A LIST OF MY PUPILS
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