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CATALOG #7581

Vesper Service

Transcript

This is a production of the U.S. Embassy in the Philippines This is a production of the U.S. Embassy in the Philippines This is a production of the U.S. Embassy in the Philippines This is a production of the U.S. Embassy in the Philippines This is a production of the U.S. Embassy in the Philippines

Transcribed by AI from the recording above. These are noisy hundred-year-old cylinders, so expect misheard words and the occasional invented line — trust your ears over the text.

Format
2-Min Wax Cylinder
Release year
1902
Duration
2:02

This transfer and transcript: CC BY 4.0. The performance itself is public domain. Free to reuse, including commercially, with credit.

About the artist

Edison Male Quartet

A studio ensemble rather than a touring band. Record companies kept groups of session players on call and issued them under a rotating set of house names — the personnel overlapped heavily from one to the next, and the name on the label indicated the kind of music inside more than who was performing it. Individual players were rarely credited, and for most of these ensembles the membership is now unrecoverable.

Written from UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive. Corrections welcome.