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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Composer Charles Wakefield Cadman is famed for his Indian Lyrics. "At Dawning" (popularized by John McCormack and the Victor Co.), "From The Land Of The Sky Blue Waters" (introduced to concertgoers by Mme. Nordica) are best known. With Nelle Richmond Eberhardt, his collaborator ever since he entered seriously upon a musical career, he wrote an Indian opera Shanewis, the only native creation to see two seasons at the Metropolitan (1918, 1919). The Witch of Salem marks an interesting variation in subject matter. It will probably rank as his greatest work to date...
...adored of the great ladies of his day and keeps him popular since. "Pinkie" went-to Sir Joseph Duveen. "Pinkie," who was none other than Miss Mary Moulton Barrett, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's aunt, painted as a young girl coquettishly sauntering over a barren moor before a thunderstorm sky...
...each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship, tells me I must die Like a sick eagle looking at the sky...
...spirit in the body, shapes of the mind in every earthly shape. Only a few saints and mathematicians have understood as he did; they, too, were mad. Heads in which a cone is buried; elongated muscles and loins growing up through the paint in mystery like weeds or flowers; skies that break, trees that kneel, faces and hands and walls that tilt with some interior volition- these he painted. To describe his paintings in this way is to speak principally of the thought that organized them; of his color critics have said "Tintoretto," of his fluidity "Byzantium." Whatever such words...
...week it was given its U. S. premiere at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan-Turandot, posthumous opera of Giacomo Puccini, composer of Madame Butterfly, La Boheme, Tosca. The Metropolitan spared no expense and achieved a gorgeous spectacle-first the rambling walls of the Imperial Palace against a sandy Peking sky and a mumbling Chinese crowd gathered to hear a mandarin read the death decree of the youthful Prince of Persia who has failed to solve the three enigmas of the cruel Princess Turandot; dusk, and the great sword sharpened for the Prince's neck and the mob crying...