Dear Martyn, Thanks for that additional bit of information. I am definitely going to get Dr. Yates's edition from Mel Bay and find out what his music is like. There seems to be quite a bit of sheet music by other composers and lyricists, some with his picture on the cover, advertising that the song was sung with much success by Ernest Shand. Most of the songs, including his own, seem to be music hall fare: "Come, come, come and sail with me on my yacht, yacht, yacht," "At our tango tea last week."
I didn't realize that in addition to being a music hall tenor he was a comedian as well. He must have been tremendously popular. It is Zuth in his Handbuch that says that Shand was an American. I wonder where he got that notion. He knew the Bone dictionary, and I can't imagine that Bone would get his nationality wrong, particularly since he provides a date and place of birth. Stanley Yates has much praise for the concerto for guitar and string quartet, which he reconstructed from the surviving guitar and piano edition. Bream is among those who has performed the work (with piano). From the musical examples it seems to be a formidible work. His article is in _Soundboard_ 24/3 (1998): 9-17. Arthur ----- Original Message ----- From: Martyn Hodgson To: Arthur Ness ; Lute Net Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 3:58 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: [LUTE]Madame Robert Sidney Pratten, Victorian guitar virtuosa Dear Arthur, You might have added, by way of curiosity, that Shand was much more famous in his day as a Music Hall comedian; I believe Bone inherited much of his collection and he writes that Shand never used the guitar in his stage act................ rgds Martyn -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
