Word: musically
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reason is not far to seek. We have been getting our opera through foreign media--we have been subsidizing alien directors, conductors, and a thousand others to give us our music. They know their business, from their own viewpoint, at least. They know that once the fetish of opera sung in an uncomprehensible language is destroyed, their day is over...
...Opera is drama set to music. The drama in the combination is almost as important as the music itself. If the drama cannot be understood, then a large part of the music must lose its effect. When we develop generally, as the Boston English Opera Company has developed, a native opera, under native direction and native conductors, we shall have a truly popular opera, and at last we shall be emancipated from the foreign operatic monopoly...
...Beck's company opened their engagement for a twelve-weeks' run at the Arlington Theatre last Monday. Every music lover in New England, every musician interested in the future of opera in this country, should, if only for selfish purposes, encourage this great undertaking which Mr. Beck has assumed...
...Symphony Hall, Boston, is meeting applicants for the new People's Philharmonic Choir on Sundays between 4.30 and 5.30 o'clock at Recital Hall, New England Conservatory Building, Boston. The tests which he conducts are very moderate, the chief requisites being an agreeable voice and an "ear" for music rather than the ability to sing a solo...
...thirteenth season Mr. Arthur Whiting and assisting artists will conduct a series of five Expositions of Chamber Music in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building at 8.15 o'clock on the following Tuesday evenings: December 9, January 13, February 17, March 16 and April...