FRANK WEBSTER (Tenor)
THE WIRELESS ORCHESTRA
Conducted by JOHN ANSELL
LIKE many of the French composers for the comic opera stage, Edmond Audran was a church organist, too, and composed a good deal of sacred music. Besides a Mass, a Motet, and smaller pieces, he composed a funeral march on the death of Meyerbeer, which was performed in Marseilles. But it was on the comic opera stage that he won his real fame, producing a long series of successful works of a light-hearted order, full of bright and sparkling tunes. Most popular of all was La Maseotte, which in Paris alone has by now been played close on 2,000 times since its production there at the end of 1880.