SAYS AARON TO MOSES, sung with immense success at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden by C. H. Macdermott, wirtte & composed by Geoffrey Thorn. Macdermott's great topical song.

THORN, Geoffrey, pseud. [i.e. Charles Townley.] died 1905

Published by Mopwood & Crew, 42 New Bond Street W., London, England, 1879

About this Item

This is a piece consisting of six sheets. The first, which is the cover, the full page color lithograph by Alfred Concanen. The following four pages (2 sheets) are the musical score for voice and piano, with the text underneath. The last page is the entire text. The entire work is protected by an acid-free mylar envelope. 35 x 26 cm. It is too large for the scanner and so it is reproduced here in two sections. The scanner's platen is also not wide enough to accommodate the entire width of the sheet so the margins of the images here are cut off. This is an anti semitic song. The Moses and Aaron are not the brothers from the Bible, but two British Jews identified as such by their names. The last stanza tells us that Moses is flush with money because he stole it from the plate passed around at church. The OCLC does not list even a single library worldwide that owns this item. G.H. MacDermott (1845-1901) was born in Islington, and named John Farrell. He had left home by 1861 to join the navy and in 1866 married Mary Ann Stradwick, by whom he had a son. From humble beginnings MacDermott became a wealthy man. In 1883 he lived in Lambeth with a young actress Annie Milburn, daughter of actor James Hartley Milburn, and had another four children, all of whom adopted his stage name of MacDermott. He later became a successful theatrical agent and managed several famous music halls. In an obituary on 9 May 1901, the Daily Telegraph called G. H. MacDermott the last lion comique, artists whose stage appearance resplendent in evening dress contrasted with the cloth cap image of most of their music hall contemporaries. Seller Inventory # 006194

Bibliographic Details

Title: SAYS AARON TO MOSES, sung with immense ...

Publisher: Mopwood & Crew, 42 New Bond Street W., London, England

Publication Date: 1879

Binding: No Binding

Illustrator: Concanen, Alfred (1835-86)

Condition: Very Good