Word: opera
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Trevor Graham, late of Wall Street, J.R.O. Perkins '14Ramola Framingham, an opera singer, R.H. Allen '14"Pop" Morris, president of Minneopa Golf Club, A.W. Poole '14Mrs. Morris, M.T. Quigg '13Billings Moncrief, seven times champion of the Seven-State Tournament, P.S. Bliss '13William Wilder, president of Tournament Association, F.F. Munroe '15Burtie Charlton, college friend of Graham's P. Blackmur '15Archibald Van Kiswick, an Englishman, J.M. Kingman '15Blanche Heath, a debutante, J.J. Armstrong '14Clara Brown-Towsley, woman of uncertain age, C.L. Callander '13Herman Sempdrick, house-manager at Minneopa Club, T.E. Alcorn '13Angela Wilson, telegraph operator, W.B. Adams '13Mardetti, a ballet dancer...
...number in general might be called an "Opera Number," so many of the pages are taken up with a discussion of that form of musical entertainment Mr. Moderwell questions its nobility but acknowledges its fascination. His article touches on the economic, dramatic, and literary sides of opera as well as the musical. We think he has gone astray in his economics, but his observations on the other aspects of opera are sometimes discriminating, often pertinent, and for the most part unusual. But how can opera be said to be caste-making?" Are those who attend "in society" and those...
...Spelman writes entertainingly of the opera of the future and presumes that his discussion is based on a "careful examination of the facts of the case." But we question the completeness of his knowledge of all the salient facts. After placing melody as the "divinest element" in music, he continues: "The next most important element in dramatic music is dissonance. The more acute the dissonance, the more intense the emotional effect." We are not sure what he means by this, but take it that he has reference to passages containing complex harmonies and unusual or complicated progressions. But therein...
...Mechem makes a plea for more comic opera, and his observations are very sensible, but where are witty librettists? Provide them and scores of well-equipped composers will spring up ready and able to make adequate, even brilliant, musical settings...
There is a very appreciative notice of the "Jewels of the Madona" at the Boston Opera House...