recorded by Lionel Mapleson
Published By The New York Public Library
Recorded At The Metropolitan Opera House
Phonographic Copyright (p) The New York Public Library
Recorded during performances at the Metropolitan Opera House
Housed in a box with a 71-page booklet

[Notes on L12 from the booklet]:

MAPLESON FAMILY VIGNETTES
Scattered among the cylinders — and, distressingly, often recorded over Met performances — are home recordings of the Mapleson family, here gathered in a sequence. Pitching was necessarily approximate; they were re-recorded at speeds that resulted in normal speaking pitch.

(a) Good morning, my dear little school.
June 21, 19??
Recorded over the continuation of the Manu excerpt
(see Side 7/G8 for the libretto of the music heard in
the background).

(b) …I want to build my own house with my
own blocks!
March 1(?), 1911
At the end of the Melba Faust Jewel Song
(Side 1/A2).

(c) …evening paper … just come from a very
windy walk on Brooklyn Bridge.
April 8, 1909
At the end of the second cylinder from the Africaine duet
(Side 3/C3).

(d) I have a new motto for my paper.
November 5, 19??
At the end of Act Il of Carmen (Side 4/D1). The
music on this recording may be related to the following
traditional round:

Thou poor bird,
mournst the tree,
where sweetly thou didst warble
in thy wand'ring free.

Ah, poor bird,
take thy flight
far above the sorrows
of this sad night.

(e) Christmas greetings
A complete cylinder from the Mapleson Music Library
group (M-5).

(f) Au clair de la lune
On the cylinder with the undated Te Deum from Tosca
(Side 7/G2).

(g) Onward Christian Soldiers
On the cylinder with the Sylvia excerpt
(Side 4/D12).