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A PERSONAL MEMOIR OF ANNE ZIEGLER AND WEBSTER BOOTH – FINAL PODCAST

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A PERSONAL MEMOIR OF ANNE ZIEGLER AND WEBSTER BOOTH – FINAL PODCAST

This is the last episode in a series which concentrated on the lives and careers of famous British duettists, Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth, and of my association with them. It was based on my book, “Sweethearts of Song: A Personal Memoir of Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth” available with my other books at http://www.lulu.com/duettists

I can hardly believe that it is thirty years since a friend phoned to tell me that she had heard of Webster’s death on “News About Britain” on BBC World Service. I had known that he was ill, but it still came as a shock to hear that my beloved friend had died in Penrhyn Bay, Llandudno at the age of 82. I think this is a fitting day on which to present my final podcast in this series.

These podcasts have largely been created for members of my Webster Booth-Anne Ziegler Yahoo group, the 78rpm Community, and the Anne Ziegler-Webster Booth fan pages on Facebook, but I am very glad that they have reached a wider audience who enjoy their singing and the performance of other artistes of their generation.

In this episode you will hear the voices of Anne and Webster, and some of Webster’s favourites – Dundee pianist, Fred Hartley, Australian bass baritone Peter Dawson, Australian baritone, Harold Williams, soprano Isobel Baillie and his favourite tenor, Jussi Bjorling.

Read more about Anne and Webster: http://ziegler-booth.blogspot.com

I have created a blog about Webster Booth as a solo artist. It includes information about his life, videos, recordings and podcasts. http://websterbooth.blogspot.com

You can see complete playlists of all my podcasts; listen to all my podcasts and recordings, and see selected YouTube videos related to Anne and Webster at:

http://ziegler-booth-radio.blogspot.com

Listen to many of Webster and Anne’s solo and duet recordings on my You Tube channel at:http://www.youtube.com/duettists

Listen to Webster’s solo recordings (as videos) on the Daily Motion site at:http://www.dailymotion.com/user/duettists1/1

My Webster Booth- Anne Ziegler Yahoo group has been running for 4 years. You might like to join it at: http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/booth-ziegler/info

You can also find pages devoted to them on Facebook at:

https://www.facebook.com/BoothZiegler

for Anne and Webster as duettists,

and

https://www.facebook.com/lwb2371

for Webster as a solo performer.

The more people who “like” and join these links, the more I will be inclined to continue posting details about their lives and careers.

The fall of the wild?

jean2371:

I feel very upset about plans to open a coal mine so close to this wonderful wilderness area, and feel for Dr Player who spent so many years working for the preservation of the rhino. I have signed the petition and sincerely hope that the Fuleni Anthracite project will be abandoned!

Originally posted on Save Our iMfolozi Wilderness:

Ian & Ann Player

 This article appeared in the Witness on Wednesday, 28 May

By Sheila Berry

Recent news of the proposed Ibutho Coal’s Fuleni opencast coal mine, sited a mere 40 to 70 metres from the southern boundary fence of the historic iMfolozi wilderness area, sent shock waves that were felt worldwide that this historic reserve could be lost to mining.

Already there is Somkhele mine, a few kilometres from the eastern boundary of the wilderness area, and, on the west, the Zululand Anthracite Colliery’s coal mines. A coal mine on the southern boundary would be the final straw.

One man who received the news as a crushing blow is Dr Ian Player, the 87 years old legendary conservationist, whose name is synonymous with wilderness, rhinos, the iMfolozi, and pioneering the Dusi Canoe Marathon. He has dedicated 62 years of his life to conservation and protecting small pockets of…

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Theatres in early Johannesburg

jean2371:

This is a marvellous article about theatres in early Johannesburg. I am sure it will be of interest to the many people who have followed my post on “life in Kensington and Johannesburg fifty years ago”.

Originally posted on Johannesburg 1912 - Suburb by suburb research:

Just a quick thank you to everyone out there following, reading and commenting on this blog. Thanks also to the Heritage Portal, Past Experiences, Lost Johannesburg, and Candice from Wyatt’s Hairdressing who have all either linked to this blog or mentioned it in some way over the last few weeks. Since moving it to WordPress in March 2013, the increase in visits and views has been phenomenal. The average visitor reads just about 6 pages according to the stats. I’m told that’s a good number…it means the content is engaging.

This out-of-place post is the result of some research into theatres I was doing for a scene in the story. I had to find the right kind of theatre with some outside and inside photographic reference. It also had to be in the right part of town so the scenes that follow are believable. Here we go:

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��� This year of Theatreland (1936) Webster Booth, Janet Lind and chorus. – Video Dailymotion

 

Webster Booth at the height of his fame.

��� This year of Theatreland (1936) Webster Booth, Janet Lind and chorus. – Video Dailymotion.

▶ This year of Theatreland (1936) Webster Booth, Janet Lind and chorus. – Video Dailymotion

 

Webster Booth at the height of his fame.

▶ This year of Theatreland (1936) Webster Booth, Janet Lind and chorus. – Video Dailymotion.

FAINT HARMONY by JEAN COLLEN

25 January 2014

I have just published the second novel in my trilogy! Faint Harmony

The second novel in a Roman a Clef trilogy.

Price: £11.00


Ships in 3–5 business days

Faint Harmony is the second novel in a Roman a clef trilogy about Malcolm Craig, a great British tenor. This book covers his life from the outbreak of World War Two until 1956 when he was at the zenith of his singing career. His rise to fame as a singer is smooth, but his private life is increasingly turbulent. The first book of the series is entitled Just the Echo of a Sigh and covers his early life to 1939. This is Jean Collen’s third novel.
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“Just the Echo of a Sigh” by Jean Collen

She has also written a volume of short stories and several non-fiction books about the lives and careers of Webster Booth and Anne Ziegler. All her books have a musical theme as she is a classical pianist and singer, and taught singing and piano until her retirement at the end of 2010.

 

 

November 2013

I have completed a rough draft of part 2 of my novel a clé trilogy during the NaNoWriMo month of November.  The book is called Faint Harmony and I hope to publish it next month after some further polishing and editing.

Second novel in trilogy by Jean Collen.

Novel completed in NaNoWriMo competition 2013.

WEBSTER BOOTH RECORDS SOUGHT

I am still looking for the following recordings featuring Webster Booth. If you have any of these recordings, I would be very grateful if you could send me an MP3 of the recording. I have many other recordings listed in the catalogues and would be happy to send you an MP3 in exchange.

 Some recordings have been listed as only one side. This means that I have already managed to obtain the other side of the recording on tape, CD or MP3.

I am not willing to send or receive 78rpm records in the post because of :

a) high postal costs;

b) for fear of the record getting broken in the post;

c) for fear that the record disappears in the postal system!

If you can help, please leave a comment or fill in the contact form [contact-form] .

Jean Collen January 2013 

Photo taken in the early 1960s.

Decca

Decca K628 Rosemarie Vocal Gems/Friml/ Victor Conway, Anne Welch, Webster Booth, 12 December 1930

Decca F9921 Sanctuary of the Heart/Ketelby; He Bought My Heart At Calvary/Hamblen with choir of St Stephen’s Church Dulwich, Fela Sowande (organ) June 1952

Decca F9942 Castles in the Air/Lincke; The White Dove/Léhar, July 1952

 Durium 

M-41171-A What More Can I Ask?; Brighter Than the Sun/ from film The Little Damozel, Durium Dance Orchestra, Peter Rush,1 February 1933

HMV 

 Test recording Serenata, Macushla Reginald Paul, C Studio, Small Queens Hall, London, 20 November 1929

 B3735 Somewhere a Voice is Calling/Tate; I Know of Two Bright Eyes/Clutsam, Ray Noble, New Mayfair Orchestra, Friends Meeting House, London,10 January 1930/April 1931

 B8360 As I Sit Here/Sanderson; Love Passes By/Victor Schertzinger, September 1935

 B8476 I’m all alone/May; I’ll wait for you/ Feiner, September 1936

 B9030 When You Wish Upon a Star/Pinocchio/ Harline; Rosita/Kennedy/Carr, 1939

 B9071 Sylvia/Oley Speaks, Gerald Moore, September 1940

 B9164 A Ballynure Ballad/arr Hughes + Trottin’ to the Fair/Stanford, Gerald Moore, 1941

 B9271 Will You Go with Me?/Brandon-Park/Murray,Gerald Moore 1942

 B9458 Just for today/Partridge/Seaver; There is No Death/Johnson/O’Hara, Gerald Moore, 1946

 B9502 All Soul’s Day/ Richard Strauss; Memory Island/ Harrison/ Gerald Moore, September 1946

B9507 O, Come All Ye Faithful, Bertram L Harrison, 1946

 B9640 Show Me the Way/O’Connor/Morgan; Napoli Bay/Kynoch, George Melachrino, 1948

C2260 Chu Chin Chow Vocal Gems/Asche/Norton, Light Opera Company, including Stuart Robertson, Webster Booth, 17 March 1931

C2800 Co-optimists Medley/Gideon/Olive Groves, Effie Atherton, Webster Booth, Stuart Robertson, George Scott Wood, 1 October 1935

C2814 Neapolitan Nights, Light Opera Company with Webster Booth

C2827 Memories of Tosti/La Scala Singers with Webster Booth

C3050 Songs That Have Sold a Million (Part 2) with Dorothy Clarke, Foster Richardson, Webster Booth, 1938

Ave Maria/Schubert, Ernest Lush (unpublished) – Also recorded on 11 August 1939

C3151 Gondoliers Vocal Gems/ Sullivan Light Opera Company with Anne Ziegler Nancy Evans, Dennis Noble, George Baker; chorus and orchestra conducted by Isadore Godfrey, Kingsway Hall, London, 27 October 1939

Here Comes the Bride Selection/Schwartz/Light Opera Company with Alice Moxon, Stuart Robertson, Webster Booth, George Baker/Ray Noble/Studio C, Small Queens Hall, London/Cc18897-4, 25 March 1930 (Number unknown)

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2013 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 8,000 times in 2013. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 7 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

▶ Facebook Videotab – A Video PlayList on Dailymotion

▶ Facebook Videotab – A Video PlayList on Dailymotion.

I have added several videos featuring Webster Booth to Daily Motion.

Webster Booth at the height of his fame.

WEBSTER BOOTH AND ANNE ZIEGLER’S CHRISTMAS PODCAST

Listen to the podcast at the following link:

WEBSTER BOOTH AND ANNE ZIEGLER’S CHRISTMAS PODCAST

A special podcast for the Christmas season featuring Anne and Webster, Norman Allin, Dora Labbette, Rawicz and Landauer, Layton and Johnstone.

Listen to all my podcasts and recordings, and see selected YouTube videos related to Anne and Webster: http://ziegler-booth-radio.blogspot.com



Listen to many of Webster and Anne’s solo and duet recordings on my You Tube channel at: http://www.youtube.com/duettists

Happy Christmas!

Look at my books – both fiction and non-fiction – at: http://www.lulu.com/duettists

 I wish all my readers a very happy Christmas and everything of the best in 2014.