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The Schumann Story

Railroad Hour · February 8, 1954 · 29 min · 2,342 words

The transcript of “The Schumann Story”, an episode of Railroad Hour first broadcast February 8, 1954. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Railroad Hour plays Railroad Hour free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Ladies and gentlemen, the railroad hour comes our star-studded Joe Crane. Tonight the Association of American Railroads brings you the premiere of a new operator, the Chuman story, created especially for the railroad hour and starring Gordon MacRae and his trying guest Dorothy Warren Show. Our choir is under the direction of Norman Luboff and our music is visited by Carmen Dragon.

Yes tonight another delightful musical play is brought to you by the American Railroad, the same railroads that bring you the food you eat, the clothes you wear, the fuer you burn, and the mothertude of other things you used in your daily life. And now here is our star, Burden Macray.

Thank you, Martin Miller. And good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Tonight, Dorothy Warren Should and I will tell you one of the enduring love stories in the world of music. The romance of Clara and Robert Humann.

For my life, I was waiting, sleeping. Sometimes it's been a single note, bringing in my hand.

But most often, it was music that an angel might sing. When I was still a youth, it was the day I arrived in White City. I rushed to the house of my sir V even before I unpack my traveling pace.

He was acclaimed the best piano teacher in all of Germany. I would determine a study with him. But I found here V a gaunt man with eyes like a hawk. Your name? Robert Humann. You understand my young hair, Humann.

If you study with me, you will study. Music will be your whole life. Oh, it is already here, Professor. I... Who is that? My most celebrated few. How old are you? Eighteen. She is nine.

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