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** WITHDRAWN ** JOHN COUNT McCORMACK The Songs of Ireland by J L Hatton and J L Molloy 4th (New and Enlarged Edition) London and New York (nd) decorated cloth with an inscription Presented to Miss Lily Foley with Vincent O'Briens compliments as a small token of thanks for services rendered at his concert, 28th November 1900 and signed on the back end paper Lillie Foley, with a photograph by W D Hogan 56 Henry Street, Dublin, July 1925 of Count John McCormack and Vincent O'Brien standing on the deck of a ship. together with John McCormack's leather make up box, the lid stamped J McC. Note : Vincent O'Brien was the conductor of the Palestrina Choir at Dublin's Pro-Cathedral of St. Mary. The choir and unsurpassed standard which was built up and maintained over many years by O'Brien. It was he who granted the young McCormack a place in the choir and gave him his first professional singing lessons, which led to the singer being awarded the Denza Gold Medal for the best tenor at the Dublin Feis Ceoil (Music Festival) in 1903. O'Brien had also coached Lily Foley and she too was awarded a gold medal at the Feis; she later became McCormack's wife. Amongst his other pupils were the author James Joyce, who was awarded the Bronze Medal at the Feis the following year, and Margaret Sheridan who became a leading soprano at the San Carlo Opera in Naples and at the Royal Opera House, Convent Garden, where she appeared with Beniamino Gigli at the British premier of Andrea Chenier. Vincent O'Brien made serveral important recordings with McCormack and Kreizler and went on tour with McCormack in 1913/1914 when Schneider was unable to travel. Lily McCormack tells how O'Brien, who hadn't travelled a lot, was warned that this journey would take him almost around the world and to plan his luggage accordingly. She recalls seeing O'Brien on a railway station in Vancouver, surrounded by a small mountain of hand luggage and looking extremely harassed. McCormack exploded 'why didn't you bring a trunk and one bag and save yourself all this bother?' Vincent O'Brien, described by Countess McCormack as 'a dear, vague, artistic soul', replied 'Sure John if I'd known I was going so far I would've'. Years later it must have been a very sad occasion for Vincent O'Brien when having survived his illustrious pupil, he conducted the Palestrina Choir at McCormack's graveside at Deansgrange, Dublin, in September 1945. ** WITHDRAWN ** JOHN COUNT McCORMACK The Songs of Ireland by J L Hatton and J L Molloy 4th (New and Enlarged Edition) London and New York (nd) decorated cloth with an inscription Presented to Miss Lily Foley with Vincent O'Briens compliments as a small token of thanks for services rendered at his concert, 28th November 1900 and signed on the back end paper Lillie Foley, with a photograph by W D Hogan 56 Henry Street, Dublin, July 1925 of Count John McCormack and Vincent O'Brien standing on the deck of a ship. together with John McCormack's leather make up box, the lid stamped J McC. Note : Vincent O'Brien was the conductor of the Palestrina Choir at Dublin's Pro-Cathedral of St. Mary. The choir and unsurpassed standard which was built up and maintained over many years by O'Brien. It was he who granted the young McCormack a place in the choir and gave him his first professional singing lessons, which led to the singer being awarded the Denza Gold Medal for the best tenor at the Dublin Feis Ceoil (Music Festival) in 1903. O'Brien had also coached Lily Foley and she too was awarded a gold medal at the Feis; she later became McCormack's wife. Amongst his other pupils were the author James Joyce, who was awarded the Bronze Medal at the Feis the following year, and Margaret Sheridan who became a leading soprano at the San Carlo Opera in Naples and at the Royal Opera House, Convent Garden, where she appeared with Beniamino Gigli at the British premier of Andrea Chenier. Vincent O'Brien made serveral important recordings with McCormack and Kreizler and went on