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Track(s) taken from CDH55210

Mother Machree

First line:
There’s a spot in me heart which no colleen may own
composer
1910
composer
1910
author of text

Dame Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)
Recording details: September 1992
Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Hampstead, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Arthur Johnson
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: March 1993
Total duration: 2 minutes 40 seconds

Cover artwork: Photograph of Ann Murray. Malcolm Crowthers
 

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Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
That Irish songs flourished not only on the European side of the Atlantic but also the American was due especially to the tenor Chauncey Olcott. Like his contemporary Eugene Stratton, Olcott was born in Buffalo, was educated by the Christian Brothers, and became a performer with Haverly’s Mastodon Minstrels. Whereas Stratton settled as a black-face performer in Britain, Olcott (who was brought up by his Irish-born mother after his father’s early death) became the archetypal American Irishman, writing and performing sentimental songs evoking Ireland and its people. These included ‘My wild Irish rose’ (1899) and ‘When Irish eyes are smiling’ (1912), as well as ‘Mother Machree’. He introduced this last in a romantic drama Barry of Ballymore by Rida Johnson Young, a former actress who had been Victor Herbert’s librettist on Naughty Marietta. Olcott’s musical collaborator was Ernest R Ball, a vaudeville pianist who was staff arranger for the Witmark publishing company.

from notes by Andrew Lamb © 2003

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