[COMP] Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians - ava

[Availle]

Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians by Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915).

This project is now complete. All files can be found on the catalog page:
https://librivox.org/little-journeys-to-the-homes-of-great-musicians-by-elbert-hubbard/

Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings may have influenced them. These short essays are part biography and part pontification of Hubbard's opinion of the subject and their oeuvre. <br><br>

In this volume he reflects on the lives of great musicians. Included are Richard Wagner, Paganini, Frederic Chopin, Robert Schumann, Sebastian Bach, Felix Mendelsohn, Franz Liszt, Ludwig van Beethoven, George Handel, Giuseppe Verdi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Johannes Brahms. (Summary by Lucy Perry and Availle.)<br><br>
This is Volume 14 in a series of 14 books. </p>

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Any questions?
Please post below

[jayy]

Chapters 1 and 2. Readerlicious

[maggietravers]

I would love to DPL this for you!

[Availle]

You're in as DPL Maggie, thank you!

jayy, welcome to librivox!

Before I'll give these sections to you, please do our one-minute test. This is not an audition for you, but for your setup (volume, background noise, technical bits) so we can make sure that you have the best possible setup for your real recordings. Have a look at your welcome email, it contains all the information you'll need for your one-minute test!

Besides that, I'll need a name with which to enter you into our catalog. This can be your forum name, your real name, another pseudonym, it does not really matter. It would be wise however, if you say a name in your recordings, to choose this one as your catalog name so that people who listen to you can find you. Oh, we can also link to a personal webpage, blog or such if you like.

That's it for now, have fun on here!

[maggietravers]

I would love to DPL this for you!

I will also read sections 23 and 24, if you don't PLing them My kids and I are studying Brahms this year, so this will be a great introduction for me! Hopefully, we'll get others to sign up too

[Availle]

Thanks Maggie, all yours! I'll PL them for you, no problem.

[maggietravers]

I can't seem to get the link to the book to work Can you check it for me? Ready to read this!

[Availle]

The link works fine for me - maybe a temporary glitch at gutenberg's?

[barleyguy]

Ava,

Hi. I'd like to read Mozart (Chapters 21 and 22).

Thanks,

Harley.

[Availle]

Thanks for claiming Harley - enjoy Mozart!

We seem to roll up that one from the back, eh?

[barleyguy]

Thanks for claiming Harley - enjoy Mozart!

We seem to roll up that one from the back, eh?

Yes. It seems like when it was written he may have saved the best for last.

[grannaknits]

I would like to read sections 17 and 18, please. Thanks!

Grannaknits (Denise Nordell)

[Availle]

All yours, thank you Denise! Have fun with it.

[harpinthecloset]

Oooh! May I do the 2 parts on Bach? I'm new around here, but I'm planning to do my test recording today, and I *love* Bach.

[maggietravers]

Here are my 2 sections. I hope that I did a sufficient job on the foreign names There was German, Latin, French, etc! Please let me know if I need to change any!

Section 23
Time 17:29
https://librivox.org/uploads/availle/littlejourneys_greatmusicians_23_hubbard_128kb.mp3

Section 24
Time 18:57
https://librivox.org/uploads/availle/littlejourneys_greatmusicians_24_hubbard_128kb.mp3