Piano and voice - Digital Download SKU: LV.5766 Composed by Anthony Reiff. Portraits, Mothers & children, Parlors, Musical instruments, Vases, Human life cycle. Lester S. Levy Collection. 4 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.5766). The Stepping Stone. Words by Sydney Rosenfeld. Music (Founded on a Russian Original) by Anthony Reiff. Published 1890 by Willis Woodward & Co., 842 & 844 Broadway in New York. Composition of through-composed with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Portraits, Mothers & children, Parlors, Musical instruments, Vases, Human life cycle. First line reads Life is but cruel, cruel at best, 'tis striving and striving and hoping for rest.. About The Lester S. Levy CollectionThe Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. Donated to Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the collection's strength is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century American through popular music. This sheet music has been provided by Project Gado, a San Francisco Bay Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents. Language and concepts within reflect the opinions and values of the time and may be offensive to some.
