Word: english
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...breaking up. Major-General Menoher, Director of Air Service, recently testified before a senatorial investigation committee that production is at a standstill, and that the aviation personnel has been wiped out. Such a condition is the more deplorable upon consideration of the action of foreign countries. Already French and English companies are developing the airplane as a cargo carrier in South America...
Twelve weeks of Opera in English is the program of Mr. Edward M. Beck, managing director of the Boston English Opera Company. His aim, as expressed in an interview yesterday, is to provide for the American singer in this country an opportunity comparable at least to that given to the foreigners who have hitherto dominated our opera...
...That is why for their own selfish interest, these foreigners discourage opera in English, discourage American singers, deny to young American voices a fair chance, and seek only to strengthen the strangle hold that aliena now have upon the production of opera in this country, where opera pays the largest rewards of any country in the world...
...continued Mr. Beck, "opera can be sung in English, and produced as well under American direction as under any other. More, it gives greater enjoyment to the mass of the people which comprise the average audience when it is sung in an understandable language than when foreign singers use a medium that but few of the audience can comprehend...
...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...