excerpt from 'Memories of a Musician: Reminiscences of Seventy years of Musical Life' pp. 317 (108 words)
excerpt from 'Memories of a Musician: Reminiscences of Seventy years of Musical Life' pp. 317 (108 words)
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After hearing her, and being satisfied that she would be very successful in public, I said that I would like her to sing at Prince's Hall in Piccadilly (now demolished and changed to Prince's Restaurant), at a concert given by a pupil of the late Chevalier Emil Bach. I conducted the concert, and had a small orchestra, and Madame Nellie Armstrong (that was her real name in those days, as she adopted the name of " Melba " later on when she appeared in opera in Brussels and at Covent Garden) sang the two songs which I had heard at my house, and she was encored in both of them. |
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