Word: opera
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Back Bay 1710 North Station (Information), Haymarket 3000 Porter Station (B. & M.), Camb. 2958 South Station (Information), Beach 4060 Trinity Place (B. & A.), Beach 7200 Theatres. Arlington (Castle Square), Beach 5300 Colonial, Beach 411 Copley, Back Bay 5518 Hollis, Beach 131 Keith's, Beach 1724 Majestic, Beach 4520 Opera House, Beach 4520 Park Square, Beach 193 Plymouth, Beach 4520 Shubert, Beach 4520 Symphony Hall, Back Bay 1492 Tremont, Beach 608 Wilbur, Beach 4520 Boston Papers. Associated Press, Fort Hill 400 Boston Daily Advertiser, Beach 7520 Boston American, Main 5180 Boston Globe, Main 5721 Boston Herald, Beach 3000 Boston Post, Main...
...occultation will be plainly visible to the naked eye throughout the eastern part of the United States if the evening is clear, and it will be possible to watch it closely with opera glasses. The Star Beta Capricorn, which is of the third magitude, will be found close to the dark side of the moon shortly after sunset. At the appointed time it will then disappear as it goes behind the moon. Some time later it will reappear on the illuminated side of the moon...
...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...
...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...