Pasquale Taraffo

Performing a sample of his composition “Stefania” in New York on December 19^th, 1928.

Zara Prima, with Taraffo

"O Sole Mio!"
"Maria, Mari!"

In the early 2000's, a rare University library film was discovered of Pasquale Taraffo performing a sample of his composition “Stefania” in New York on December 19th, 1928.  Eventually, both I and Beppe Gambetta separately tracked it down and licensed some of it for private use. My version for Harpguitars.net Members was a 60 second clip that I edited together from Taraffo's four separate performance takes with 3 different views. This video remains available for sharing with Harpguitars.net members. However, the entire 4 minute film (Taraffo's 4 short takes) has finally been made available on YouTube directly from the source - the Moving Image Research Collections of the University of South Carolina. Click here to view.  

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This rare 78 was discovered by Franco Ghisalberti shortly after the release of his 2007 2-CD set of the complete Taraffo recordings, and thus will likely never be released on CD.

Franco Ghisalberti has graciously donated the recordings to the members of Harpguitars.net.

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